Today's Key Technologies for High-Quality Tube Making

摘要

The development milestones set by SMS Meer over the last ten years will enable the owners of seamless tube mills to continue to survive on the world market in the future. The new 3-roll mandrel mill with restrained mandrel bar "PQF" and the new measuring device "LASUS~R" , in particular, will herald a new chapter in the history of seamless tubemaking which started in the 19~(th) century with the Mannesmann brothers. The new automation concepts have been elaborated and are ready for use and now have to be successfully implemented in conjunction with the owners of tube mills.