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Modern, eco-friendly workstations
The building is eight stories higher than usual and this improves the air ow inside the building and creates a pleasant, climate-con- trolled working environment. Ninety- ve percent of the waste materials created during produc- tion are to be recycled on site, according to Tenaris. And this makes Tenaris not only one of the most advanced but also the most sustainable tube mills in the world. The United States Environ- mental Protection Agency has cat- egorized the new Tenaris plant as a “minor source of emissions”.
Technical data
Annual capacity: 600,000 tons of seamless tubes
Tube diameter: between 4 1⁄2” (114.3 mm) and 9 5/8” (244.5 mm)
Tube wall thickness: between 5.7 and 25.4 mm
Product range: OCTG tubes as per API, carbon steels, low alloy and high-alloy steels with a chromium content of up to 9 % and 13 % respectively.
SMS group GmbH
TBK Automatisierung und Messtechnik GmbH is a 100-percent subsidiary of SMS group now
Customized solutions for dimen- sion control and surface analy- sis of rolled products from one source
For some years now, SMS group has been holding a share in TBK Automatisierung und Messtech- nik GmbH, domiciled in Graz, Austria. The remaining business shares were acquired with retroac- tive effect from January 1, 2018, which means that TBK is a 100- percent subsidiary of SMS Beteili- gungs-GmbH now.
TBK Automatisierung und Mess- technik GmbH has been devel- oping measurement technology solutions for the steel industry since 1986, in particular laser measuring systems using the light section method. The two compa- nies TBK and SMS group have been cooperating closely since 2004. Jointly, they offer tailor-made solutions for dimension control and surface analysis of rolled
products for all tube and pipe, wire rod and bar as well as section mills included in the portfolio of SMS group. Straightness meas- uring equipment, especially for rails, and instruments for meas- uring special pro les and wheels complete the product range.
Using measuring systems from TBK, producers will be able to continuously monitor their prod- ucts for surface defects fully automatically and during ongoing production. For this purpose, an analyzing model composes the high-resolution measurements to form a three-dimensional model. High measurement frequencies stand for the necessary precision: Providing up to 5,000 scans per second, the system shows even nest surface irregularities. High sampling rates, different laser colors and absolute synchroni- zation are features that distin- guish TBK sensors from other
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