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Posted on 31 Oct 2012

Special Bar Quality technology for Brazil The new rolling mill for quality steel rounds at GerdauA?os Espe?iais in Pindamonhangaba (SP)

The new SBQ bar mill will enable Gerdau Group to expand its internal market supply to the automotive industry and other special steel applications. The order, effective from October 2010, foresees a Danieli Centro Maskin billet grinder for surface defect removal upstream of the rolling mill; a new 110-tph walkinghearth Danieli Centro Combustion reheating furnace; a high-speed rougher with four SHS stands; an intermediate/prefinishing mill with 10 SHS stands; and a four-stand Kocks/Danieli RSB block as the finishing mill for the range of SBQ round bars up to 70 mm dia.