Fushun Special Steel Co. Ltd. orders KOCKS 3-roll RSB® 5.0
The Chinese steel producer Fushun Special Steel Co. Ltd. (Fushun) has placed an order with Friedrich KOCKS GmbH & Co KG, Hilden, Germany, for a Reducing & Sizing Block (RSB®) 370++/4 in 5.0 design.
Fushun is a subsidiary of the Shagang Group, China's largest private steel producer with approx. 42 million tons per year. The RSB® 370++/4 becomes the fifth RSB® within the Shagang Group.
The 600.000 t/a rolling mill is located in Fushun City, China. Key equipment is the KOCKS 3-roll RSB®, which will be located as a finishing block after the roughing and intermediate train and will produce straight bars within a dimension of Ø 14.0 to 92.0 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.