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World’s largest ring rolling plant at Ovako Tube & Ring, Sweden
Feb 1, 2011
Ovako Tube & Ring has commissioned its new ring rolling plant. The company has thus expanded the annual capacity of the works in Hofors in Central Sweden to 55,000 t.
The new plant of type RiWa 2000/80 is the world’s largest ring rolling plant in which industrial robots transport and position the workpieces. The fully automated plant consists of a ring-blank press with three permanent work stations and a radial-axial ring rolling machine. The modern industrial robots perform the workpiece transfer within the press and between the forming units. "The largest types of robots currently available on the market are in use here. We have equipped them with special gripping tongs for the specific application,” says Robert Düser from the Ring Rolling Product Unit at SMS Meer.
Ovako Tube & Ring produces profiled rings with rectangular crosssection and outside diameters from 200 to 1,200 mm on the new plant. The maximum ring height is 350 mm, the weight lies between 50 and 250 kg. The products are used in the automotive and machine engineering industries.
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