SMS Demag Ltd.

SMS group will install a 500,000-tons-per-year merchant bar mill at Nucor Steel Kankakee Inc., Bourbonnais, Ill. Production is scheduled to begin in 2019. The mill will be designed to produce a variety of merchant bar products to complement the existing product portfolio, equal and unequal angles...

SMS has installed an advanced quench-and-temper facility heat-treatment line at TimkenSteel Corp.’s Gambrinus Steel Plant in Canton, Ohio, and the line has started full commercial production. The compact line can treat 10 tons per hour of bars and heavy-walled tubes up to 13 in. dia. It comprises...

Düsseldorf, Germany-based SMS group has received an order to supply a HybrEx®25 extrusion press to UACJ Automotive Whitehall Industries, Ludington, Mich. The press is the first machine in the series to be delivered to North America. The press’s hybrid drive technology reduces energy consumption...

SMS group, Düsseldorf, Germany, has announced it has been awarded a contract for an expansion of the merchant bar mill at Steel Dynamics Inc.’s Roanoke Bar Division, Virginia operation. The upgrade is to integrate a new reheating furnace and finishing area into the facility. With this...

Germany-based SMS group has supplied heat-treating equipment and a pipe threading line to Houston-based Axis Pipe and Tube. The two new lines for the Bryan, Texas, plant enable the company to produce OCTG tubes used in natural gas and crude oil production. The heat-treating line includes a...

SMS Siemag, Pittsburgh, has received an order from Aleris, an aluminum coil manufacturer, for the supply of a CVC® plus single-stand, six-high aluminum cold rolling mill as part of an expansion of its facility in Lewisport, Ky. The mill will produce coil up to 7.7 ft. wide, enabling Aleris to...