After the successful commissioning of a new melt shop and caster supplied by SMS group in 2012, El Marakby Steel, based in 6th of October City, Egypt has awarded the same technology vendor an order for a new rolling mill capable of producing bar and wire rod. The new mini mill will be designed for the manufacture of straight rebars and wire rod coils, and will enable El Marakby to expand its product portfolio and meet increased domestic demand.

El Marakby’s mill will be designed to produce at a capacity of 400,000 tons per year, taking advantage of a hot connection with the existing caster. Starting with square 130 mm billets, and heated to temperature by a 70 ton per hour modern pusher furnace, the mill will be able to produce rebars from 10 to 32 mm and wire rod coils from 5.5 to 12 mm.
For further information www.sms-group.com

RK International Machine Tools will be well-represented at EMO through its numerous principals and partners. For instance, grinding machines will be on display from Perfect, Robbi, Delta and Jainnher, with large-capacity CNC milling machines on show from RK’s most recently added partner, Lagun.

Perfect will be exhibiting the X36 surface grinder, which now benefits from an upgraded PLC (Hall 11, Stand A20), while over on the Delta stand there will be a number of machines on display, including the newly introduced Mini 7 travelling-column surface grinder and the Rotax 7 automatic, rotary-table, horizontal-spindle grinder (Hall 11, Stand A78). Robbi will be highlighting its large-capacity CNC cylindrical grinding machine range with the Omicron 3615 Industry 4.0 Edition model taking pride of place on the stand (Hall 11, Stand A82). Centre of attention on the Lagun stand will be the BM bed-mill series, with the BM 3 on display (Hall 13, Stand A56-A58).
For further information www.rk-int.com