ShanDong Fulun Iron & Steel Co. Ltd, Laiwu City, China, has placed an order with SMS Meer, Germany, for the supply of two high speed wire rod mills. Each mill will be capable of achieving an annual capacity of 700,000tns of wire rod. The wire rod diameters range from 5.5 to 25mm and the diameters of the rebars from 6 to 14mm. A broad spectrum of steel grades will be rolled on the mills, from carbon steel and cold heading grades, spring steels, welding wire and ball bearing steels right up to stainless steels. The wire-rod finishing trains are each equipped with a six-stand and a four-stand block. The scope of supply also includes water cooling sections, loop cooling conveyors with either delayed or accelerated cooling, loop laying heads and CCT® (Controlled Cooling Technology). The mills are characterized by their flexibility with respect to the product sizes, by their rolling precision and the high rolling speeds.
