Chengde Jianlong Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. orders KOCKS 3-roll RSB® 5.0 for their new Greenfield rolling mill project
The Chinese steel producer Chengde Jianlong Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. has placed an order with Friedrich KOCKS GmbH & Co KG, Hilden, Germany, for a Reducing & Sizing Block (RSB®) 500++/4 in Star Drive Design for its straight bar mill.
Chengde Jianlong is part of the Jianlong group, which integrates new industries as resources, steel, marine and electromechanical. Following an order for an RSB® 370++/4 in 2017, the company will commission its second KOCKS block.
The new 1.000,000 t/a rolling mill will be located in Chengde, China. Key equipment of the new rolling mill complex is the KOCKS 3-roll RSB®, which will be located as a finishing unit after the roughing and intermediate train and will produce straight bars within a dimension of Ø 60.0 – 160.0 mm.
Included in the KOCKS scope of supply is the Remote control (RC) as well as the state of the art bar mill configurator Bamicon Octopus which setups the RSB® for the individual products to be rolled.
The commissioning of the new RSB® is scheduled for the beginning of 2023.