engineering award The new Pressurfect seamless stainless engineering innovation; uniqueness; tube from Sandvik Materials Technology potential for ‘real world’ production has won the prestigious Tech Award application; and potential benefit for at the SAE 2014 World Congress and industry customers and end-users. Sandvik Materials Technology’s award-winning Exhibition in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Pressurfect seamless stainless tube Pressurfect is designed to meet “The Tech Award is a fantastic honour industry customers’ expressed needs mechanical strength than welded and for Sandvik,” said Jari Ponsiluoma, for a stronger, safer and lighter material lower grade tubes. global product manager for Pressurfect. for future fuel systems. The seamless “We now join the ranks of a small stainless tube reduces risks of corrosion The material has a cleaner microstructure number of innovative companies that pitting or cracking and helps to gain and lower carbon content for optimised have won this award, which is great ‘clean power’ from smaller combustion strength and anti-corrosion with superior news for us.” engines, in order to achieve sustainable machinability for drilling, turning and mobility in line with tougher emissions other tasks. The SAE World Congress and Exhibition regulations. gathered the best experts, management It enables carmakers to produce more teams and engineers in the automotive Today’s fuel-efficient gasoline direct compact engines with lower emissions industry in April. The editors of injection (GDI) engines require higher and sustained power, in an engine that Automotive Engineering International pressure for lower fuel consumption is affordable for mass production. Magazine chose technologies that met and lower CO2 emissions. Pressurfect the criteria for their Tech Award from handles these demands with 40 per Sandvik Materials Technology – among the exhibitors. The selections cent lower weight, and claimed superior Sweden were based on level of design and corrosion resistance and greater www.smt.sandvik.com
Fully automatic section rolling mill in India
Viraj Profiles, a major producer of “We wanted to offer products to our the conceptualisation and execution of stainless steel engineering products, customers faster and quicker without the whole project, commented, “This has inaugurated its new section rolling compromising on the quality, and that new facility has proven to be like a leap mill (SRM) plant in Tarapur, Maharashtra, is how we conceptualised the need for into the future for our customers as India. Neeraj Raja Kochhar, chairman a fully automatic section rolling mill. The my personal endeavour is to serve the and managing director of Viraj Profiles, annual capacity of this plant will be up customers better and better. At Viraj we inaugurated the plant in the presence to 180,000 tons.” have always tried to focus on tomorrow of other senior management members. and streamline our activities today to Renu Kochhar, the company’s managing achieve that tomorrow. Consequently, Equipped with a completely automated director, who played an important role in commencing of this new mill aligns very process, the plant is described as well with our strategy. The new facility unique in terms of online pickling Renu Kochhar, Viraj Profiles managing will allow us to strengthen our business facilities, automatic labelling and director locally as well as globally. The use of packaging line. The new facility will fully automated processes will not only be able to manufacture more than help increase our production capacity 700 different shapes and designs of but will also ensure the standardisation angles, flats and other profiles. With in the manufacturing process.” the new plant in place, the company hopes to deliver quality products with This new facility has several locational assured delivery times, and increase its advantages. The nearest railway track is efficiency in catering to global and local only 8km from the production site, and requirements. the nearest port is around 170km. The Inland Container Depot (ICD) started Mr Kochhar commented, “We are very by Viraj Profiles at Tarapur will ensure pleased commencing this long-planned smooth logistical support to its clients. project, and with this new plant Viraj is going to enter into a new dimension of Viraj Profiles Ltd – India its history.” Explaining the main reason sales@viraj.com for the new mill, Mr Kochhar added, www.viraj.com
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