Significant decrease in profit expected
As in 2012, the order intake by the SMS group will be below target for 2013. A net result well short of the previous year is anticipated.
Flashback CECOF General Assembly 2013
The 41st General Assembly was held in Antwerp (Belgium) on September 20, 2013, attended by delegates from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Poland and Switzerland. The associate members IHEA (US) and JIFMA (Japan) were also represented.
Hot Shots: Rotary hearth furnace with regenerative heating
This furnace-type grants a high temperature homogeneity and improved energy balance as well as flexibility in production. It can be charged with cold and preheated parts in various dimensions which are heated by single-row or multi-row arrangement. (Source: Andritz...
Report: Furnace technology from the rolling mill designer and builder
In the steel and aluminium industries, it was standard practice for many years for investors to split orders for new rolling mills or strip processing lines into three different packages, namely mechanical equipment, electrical equipment and thermal treatment, and to award them separately. It was the task of the investor to coordinate the individual packages and to assume responsibility for the interfaces arising from these. However, the customers are becoming increasingly interested in plantmakers who are prepared to supply the overall integrated plant including process know-how and who are technologically capable of doing this. Working with a full-range plant provider has several advantages.
Interview with Jan Schmidt-Krayer, CEO of Schmidt + Clemens Group
“Our name and reputation is also a huge obligation”
Hot Shots: Heat treatment of superlatives
Forging furnaces for charges up to 500 t with integrated residual heat exploitation. (Source: MIOBA GmbH)...Edition 4: Institute of Materials Science (IWT)
The Foundation Institute of Materials Science (Institut für Werkstofftechnik IWT) in Bremen is a leading institute for applied research and development in the field of metal working and metal processing. The IWT is a foundation under private law, founded by the AWT...
Interview with Horst Linn sen., President of Linn High Therm GmbH
“Practical experience is very important from the beginning”
Excellent feedback about ITPS 2013
ITPS – International Thermprocess Summit – proved to be a great success when it was held for the first time in Düsseldorf on 9 and 10 July 2013. Positive feedback has been received not only from the 147 international participants from 16 different countries but also from the companies that exhibited.
CEREXPRO research project successfully completed in April 2013
The research project “CERamic heat EXchangers with enhanced materials PROperties” led by Professor Dimosthenis Trimis, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, with participation of CECOF, has been successfully completed after a 48 months term.
