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NSK seminar forges customer relationships NSK Solutions for the Steel Sector was a seminar organised by NSK and held in Antalya, Turkey. The event attracted 100 people from 36 countries and offered visitors two presentations on NSK’s latest product innovations and services for the steel manufacturing industry. Session one, NSK Solutions for the Steel Sector, was presented by Stephen Wood, Middle East sales and engineering manager at NSK Europe. It was followed by a paper from Mathieu Piquemal entitled AIP – NSK Value Added Services. NSK offers a range of bearings for the steel industry that combat a range of tough conditions, including temperature fluctuations, contamination, belt speeds of more than 200m/min, vibration and impact. According to the company, bearings are available for all stages of steel making. The company has developed sealed spherical roller bearings for continuous casting plants that prevent the ingress of contamination and offer optimal service life. Taper roller bearings and cylindrical roller
bearings with a self-aligning outer ring are also said to be ideal for continuous casting plants. Further innovations from NSK include taper roller bearings available in various special materials for use at rolling mills, such as Water-TF and Super-TF, together with NSK’s Sealed-Clean technology. Beyond these, various bearings are offered for sinter machines, LD converters, chain conveyors, levellers and more. All are designed to be reliable, wear-resistant and durable, and thus promote profitable production. Profitability is also the aim of NSK’s recently introduced AIP+ Added Value Programme, which is designed to deliver a complete bearing care package, known as AIP+, which uses a quartet of innovative maintenance and service tools – condition monitoring, mounting tools, laser alignment and lubrication solutions – all of which have been developed to maximise machine performance and operating life. Emrah Cakir, general manager of NSK Turkey, said that the purpose of the Antalya seminar was to demonstrate the company’s
technical knowledge and strengthen brand awareness. “It certainly helped to further improve our relations with current and new customers,” he said. For further information, log on to www.nsk.com
Masters of perfect vision Tube, wire rod and bar rolling mill manufacturer KOCKS also provides integrated automation and software solutions for long product rolling mills, including measuring gauges developed by Automation W + R, an expert in surface inspection and measuring technology. KOCKS has partnered with Automation W + R to develop a high resolution measuring gauge based on the laser triangulation light section measuring principle. Known as the 4D Eagle, the system inte-
grates the latest technologies and meets the requirements of modern rolling mills for the highest measuring accuracy and frequency. The 4D Eagle is not only suitable before and following KOCKS RSB applications, it can also be applied as a stand-alone device in other long product mills. Applications include round bars, wire rods, hexagons, rebars, square, tubes and other long products. The monitoring and subsequent display of the complete surface of the bar allows
the detection of local and periodical defects and/or dimensional variations of the rolled product. Thanks to its high measuring frequency, the 4D Eagle identifies rolled product defects immediately so that countermeasures can be taken in the shortest possible time. This reduces the amount of faulty products and increases mill profitability. For further information, log on to www.kocks.de Special Features of the 4D EAGLE include: • Use of innovative materials to avoid thermal expansions. • Provision of accurate guiding concept with remote-controlled height adjustment and water strippers. • No external electronic cabinet. • Measuring cell is fully sealed and resistant against scale, water and dust. • Stainless steel housing to ensure reliable long-term operation. • No process water consumption, cooling concept with closed-loop water circulation. • System software allows statistical evaluations, calculation of “cold”-values, process capability and data archiving functions, and optional integration of length and temperature measurement.