6–9 Oct 2025
Palaexpo Veronafiere
Europe/Rome timezone
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From Quantity to Quality: Evolving Wire Rod Production to Meet Modern Market Demands with SMS group

9 Oct 2025, 11:00
20m
Margherita II (Palaexpo Veronafiere)

Margherita II

Palaexpo Veronafiere

Veronafiere, Viale del Lavoro 8, 37135 Verona
Oral Presentation Rolling of long and flat product Advanced Materials & Special Applications

Speaker

Mr Nicola Redolfi (SMS group)

Description

SMS group recently celebrated 150 years as one of the world leaders in the construction of equipment for the ferrous and non-ferrous metals industries. This paper will focus on the recent technology developments dedicated to the wire rod producers such as:
• Single-pass driven MEERdrive® finishing blocks
• Rapid production change and precise finishing through MEERdrive®PLUS high-speed finishing/sizing block
• Low temperature rolling multiloop process
• Latest generation laying heads
• 3-fan 3-dimensional LCC® Loop Cooling Conveyor
• Rotary distributor with combined lowering device and shear
• Electric based coli compacting systems
Enhanced automation and integrated CCT® 4.0 system for advanced control

Primary author

Mr Nicola Redolfi (SMS group)

Co-authors

Mr Andrea Taurino (SMS group) Mr Francesco Paternoster (SMS group) Mr Mauro Odorico (SMS group)

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