TMK-ARTROM S.A. Slatina, one of the European leading manufacturers in the production of seamless steel tubes for industrial applications, announces that it has contracted with SMS group, one of the world's largest manufacturers of plants and machines for all tube and pipe manufacturing processes, to supply a heat treatment line for seamless steel tubes.
The heat treatment line serves for the production of seamless steel tubes for oil and gas applications as well as high-strength tubes for mechanical applications. The heat treatment line annual capacity will be of 160,000 tons and it will be able to treat seamless steel tubes up to a wall thickness of 60 millimeters.
The heat treatment line supplied by SMS group allows carrying out various process steps, such as quenching, tempering and normalizing.
Thanks to the high product flexibility, the heat treatment line is also suitable for the cost- effective processing of small batch sizes and different product groups. Eco-friendly recuperative burners with very low nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions in the furnaces allow fuel savings of up to 5 percent compared with conventional burners.
With the installation of this heat treatment line, TMK-ARTROM S.A. is strengthening its presence on the market with tubes for mechanical application and for oil and gas exploration.
The contract is part of the investment project "Heat Treatment Complex" with a budgeted value of 35.2 millions euro, project which will be performed during the period 2016 -2017.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
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Original Document: http://www.tmk-artrom.eu/media_en/files/294/176/CURRENT_REPORT_TMK_ARTROM_22_FEBRUARY_2016.pdf