Oct 6 – 9, 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

Oct 9, 2025, 11:00 AM
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

David Maurizo (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 authors

David Maurizo (SMS Group) 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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