As Kallanish notes, Hilco Industries has put up for sale a mill for the production of profiles and long products, which was stopped a year ago by the Swiss steel manufacturer Stahl Gerlafingen.
Hilco Industrial, based in Amsterdam, is a used manufacturing equipment resale agent. It is a subsidiary of the American Hilco Global group.
The main initial supplier of rolling and automation equipment was Daneli, and TSR in Hockenheim acted as the developer of the heating furnace, Hilco wrote in its newsletter. The mill was put into operation in 2011, including modern rolling mill mechanical equipment, as well as electrical and automation systems using Siemens brand technologies, Hilco notes.
A small part of the equipment from the previous rolling mill was reused at the rolling mill. The rolling mill, designed for a production capacity of 600,000 tons per year, can process both billet and blum or beams into a wide range of beams, profiles and flat bars. It is equipped with a 120 t/h walking beam heating furnace, a crushing reversible mill (BDM), a three-cell ultra-flexible reversible mill (UFR) and an eight-cell continuous finishing mill.
Last year, Stahl Gerlafingen, a subsidiary of the Beltrame group, decided to discontinue production of profiles and long products. This was due to high costs caused by electricity prices in Switzerland and EU trade barriers that prevented the company from selling long products in neighboring markets.
Since then, the plant has limited itself to the production of fittings (see "Kalanish passim").
Christian Kel Germany
Kallanish.com
