EBNER Journal for Progress in Industrial Furnace Technology
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EBNER Journal for Progress in Industrial Furnace Technology

Taking part is not enough Strong. Safe. High-quality. HICON/H2® bell annealer facility for steel strip NASTECH / Korea Ocean-front property HICON/H2® bell annealer facility for steel strip Shougang Jingtang United Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. / China In China - next door HICON/H2® bell annealer facility for steel strip and wire Wälzholz / China, Germany Visual Furnaces Mobile mobile operation of all visualization systems HICON/H2® vertical bright annealing line for steel strip Arinox / Italy Superlative goals HICON/H2® bell annealer facility for steel wire NUCOR / USA Two birds with one stone...

Taking part is not enough Dear business partners, Dear employees, This year is filled with many major athletic events that millions of people around the globe will be enthusiastically following. With the Olympic spirit and fair competitions in mind, our winter athletes have already competed for medals. This summer, Brazil will host the FIFA World Cup, the heat of the game on the field spilling over into the streets when the home team wins. What does this all have to do with us, you may be wondering? I will tell you, and fire the starting shot for the first issue of the HICON Journal in...

STRONG. SAFE. HIGH-QUALITY. Nastech, a Korean company based in Asan City since the late 80s, is one of EBNER‘s most loyal and constant customers. Nastech is based in the Hoseo region, which is home to many of Korea‘s technology companies, and produces a broad spectrum of steel strip grades. This strip is mainly used in the production of chains, sawblades, tools and springs. The expansion by eight new EBNER HICON/H2® workbases clearly indicates that the quality of the mid and high-carbon steel strips is being aligned with the demands of the automotive industry. And because you shouldn‘t do...

NASTECH / Korea Franz Wiesinger, the Sales Manager for this project, tells us more about the details and requirements. Mr. Wiesinger, with customers like Nastech doubling their capacity, what direction do you see the Korean steel industry taking? It‘s not so much a new direction as it is a long-distance sprint in the right direction that Nastech is undertaking here. But this sprint has a long and intense history. We at EBNER are proud to have been there for Nastech‘s beginning and have seen first hand how our customers have contributed to the positive development of the Korean market....

Oceanfront property The way to Shougang Jingtang United Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. feels like the way to a beach vacation. The road to Caofeidian passes over miles of bridges across the China Sea. But the headquarters in Caofeidian were only founded in 2005; decades of the company‘s history took place in Beijing, where the original headquarters and workshop were located. The growing issue of the environmental impact China‘s rapid expansion has had on its capital was one of the main reasons the steel works were moved to the Caofeidian industrial park, built on artificially reclaimed land 20 km...

Shougang Jingtang / China Leopold Fellinger has more information on the EBNER facility in the China Sea and was happy to answer the following questions for us. A steel plant with its own port access, is this a competitive advantage in terms of transport and logistics? It‘s definitely no disadvantage to have a water transport route (which is always preferred) right up to the front door, eliminating the need to transfer freight to and from the road. Moving to the Caofeidian industrial park killed several birds with one stone. Firstly, by implementing planned and required reduction in...

NEXT DOOR A trip from the EBNER offices in Taicang to the newly built cold rolling mill at Waelzholz New Material (Taicang) Co., Ltd is practically a visit to a neighbor, since the Asian subsidiaries of the two family-owned companies are less than a mile apart. The wholly owned subsidiary of the German company C.D. Wälzholz was founded in China in 2007. The busy industrial metropolis of Taicang, which has attracted many European companies due to its proximity to Shanghai, was chosen as a location. Since being founded in Hagen, Germany in 1829, C.D. Wälzholz has grown to an international...

Wälzholz / China, Germany Bernhard Ennsbrunner, the project manager for this facility, was able to answer some of our questions. Neighbors in China, parallels in philosophy and goals - do these advantages intensify the long-term partnership? The close relationship we have with companies such as C.D. Wälzholz makes it possible for us to provide such customer-specific and oneof-a-kind solutions so efficiently, since we are able to draw on years of experience which simplify everything from planning to installation. The customer‘s trust in our skills was highlighted by the fact that EBNER Asia...

TABLET TO GO Visual Furnaces Mobile mobile operation of all visualization systems Over the years, EBNER Industrieofenbau has pioneered revolutionary technological innovations in the heat treatment of metals, with a lasting impact on the global market. The newest project, Visual Furnaces Mobile (VFM) is another technological step towards improving the process control and handling of industrial furnaces. Industrial furnace facilities have been operated using comprehensive and detailed visualization systems and process control systems for many years. In the past, their application was limited...

Visual Furnaces Mobile The commissioning team is able to observe, adjust and optimize the facility directly on site with their laptops, simultaneously making the required adjustments to the automation software. These notebooks can run both the development environment of the automation system and a visualization system client, allowing processes to be observed and managed on site without additional hardware. Another advantage is tied to the increased use of tablets for service and maintenance work. A client application of the visualization system can be used to call up all the facility...