Integrated casting and rolling plant. Ningbo Shimao Copper orders CONTIROD® plant from SMS Meer

Ningbo Shimao Copper from Zhejiang Province, China, has placed an order with SMS Meer, Germany, for the supply of a complete casting and rolling plant of the CONTIROD^® type for the production of copper wire rod. The company is thus strengthening its position in the copper business.

Ningbo Shimao is a Chinese producer of copper cathodes Grade A, copper wire rod and special copper cables. The CONTIROD^® line is intended for the new plant in the Bin Hai Industrial Zone near Yuyao, Zheijang Province.

The high-performance wire rod line can produce 225,000 t of quality copper wire rod per year from cathodes. The CONTIROD^® line is designed for an output of 35 t per hour and will thus be one of the larger ones of its kind in China.

It comprises a gas control system on the shaft furnace for the melting of copper cathodes and a modular Hazelett twin-belt caster for a casting cross-section of 90 mm x 70 mm. The line operates with a highly flexible 12-stand rolling mill. Due to the newly designed Lambda gas control system and the usage of variable-frequency controlled drives for blowers and mill stands this CONTIROD^® plant is, with fuel consumption figures of 300,000 kcal/t and 42 kWh/t, one of the most economical and ecological of its kind.

Commissioning of the plant is scheduled for November 2013.

SMS Meer will install a similar CONTIROD® plant for Ningbo Shimao Copper

Based on SMS Group information