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ITAtube Journal No1/May 2013
Companies
California Steel Industries (CSI),
located in Fontana, California,
USA, has placed an order with SMS
Meer, Germany, for the delivery of a
24-inch HF tube welding line. The
line will be used to primarily pro-
duce up to 400,000 t of line pipes
according to API 5L. In addition to
increased production capacity, the
new line will enable CSI to expand
its tube product range to 24 inch-
es outside diameter, with 80-foot
lengths. CSI currently offers HF
tubes with outside diameters up to
16 inches.
SMS Meer further developed the
process and systems technology for
CSI. The line is designed to produce
pipes at a rate of 35 m/min.
What’s more, the plant will feature
the SMS Meer inline and offline
quick-change system for the URD®
stands. This solution offers up to
30 % higher productivity than con-
ventional changes using a shop
crane. The quick-change system is
supported by the CSS Quicksetting®
system developed by SMS Meer
which ensures that product quali-
ty can be reproduced and improved
over the long term, thanks to a da-
tabase-supported plant setting.
Another advantage is the travelling
MF seam annealing system. During
a line stop, areas of the pipe insuf-
ficiently annealed and hence not
satisfying the quality demands can
be reannealed, hence significantly
increasing the yield of prime mate-
rial compared with a conventional
seam annealing system.
SMS Meer’s scope of supply includes
the engineering, commissioning
and customer training. All compo-
nents for the entire HF tube weld-
ing line will also be supplied from
strip preparation to the forming
section with stands in URD® de-
sign for higher precision up to the
cooling section, sizing section with
URD® stands and travelling milling
cut-off system.
On the new HF tube welding line,
CSI will be able to produce tubes
with diameters from 8 5/8” (219.1
mm) to 24” (609.6 mm). Wall
thicknesses range from 0.157” (4
mm) to 0.750” (19.1 mm), with
pipe lengths from 20 ft. (6 m) to
80 ft. (24.4 m).
The plant will be brought into ser-
vice in 2014.
CSI orders 24-inch HF tube welding
line from SMS Meer
New Order
SMS Meer GmbH
Ohlerkirchweg 66
D-41069 Mönchengladbach
Germany
Tel:
+49 2161 350 2030
Fax:
+49 2161 350 1870
Email:
Web:
Overview of forming section of a comparable plant.
