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Nucor Corporation chose Fives, an industrial engineering group, for a completely new packaging system and a cut-off for their Nucor Tubular Product facility

Fives has signed several orders on Bronx straighteners for delivery to various countries, such as Mexico, Spain and Russia.

Acciai Speciali Terni has entrusted Fives, an industrial engineering group, with a quality qualification project for its flat production facility in Terni, Italy.

Fuxin Special Steel Co. Ltd., Taiwan and Fives, international engineering group, signed a contract for coil preparation lines and cold rolling mills for stainless steel production in China.

Fives has been a major partner in designing cold rolling workshops over the last 50 years, and has been supplying more than 100 cold rolling mills and processing lines worldwide.

Tata Steel, the flagship company of the Tata group, has recently entrusted Fives to upgrade the level 1 control system at the existing gas fired pusher type reheating furnace installed at the merchant mill of their Jamshedpur Works, India.

Fives, a global industrial engineering group, has reinforced its position in the Indian steel market by signing contracts to design and supply four new reheating furnaces this year,: two for the Rourkela Steel Plant, and two for another Indian steel plant in the western coast. Primetals Technologies Japan, Ltd.

Michelin and Fives have advertised the creation of a joint venture with the aim of developing and marketing industrial machines and production shops on a global scale through "metal additive manufacturing" technology - commonly known as metal 3D printing. Under the terms of the agreement signed, FIVES MICHELIN ADDITIVE SOLUTIONS will be 50% owned by Fives and 50% by Michelin and will benefit from a financial contribution of at least €25 million in the first three years. FIVES MICHELIN ADDITIVE SOLUTIONS offers industrialists different areas of application (such as automotive, aerospace, health, etc.), a complete solution from the design and manufacture of machines and complete production lines to the related services (redesign of parts, definition of the manufacturing process, installation, production support, training, etc.). Even though AM is widely used by manufacturers for plastic, metal 3D printing is still a niche market, one that is rapidly expanding.

Fives and Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Union, the north-western China-based iron and steel manufacturing company, has signed a 10-year contract for technical support for the development and production of a wide range of high value-added automotive steels, including the latest advanced high-strength steels. Fives will provide high-end technological and process expertise covering from upstream to downstream production processes: steel making, hot rolling, pickling, cold rolling, annealing and galvanizing.

Fives was entrusted with the design and supply of two Stein Digiflex® vertical annealing furnaces for Baosteel's new 1550mm cold rolling mill project in Zhanjiang, in southeastern Guangdong province of China. One Stein Digiflex vertical annealing furnace is to be supplied for a 700,000 tons per annum continuous annealing line (CAL), the second one is for a 270,000 tons per annum continuous galvanizing line (CGL).