SMS provides heat-treatment line to TimkenSteel

SMS has installed an advanced quench-and-temper facility heat-treatment line at TimkenSteel Corp.’s Gambrinus Steel Plant in Canton, Ohio, and the line has started full commercial production.

The compact line can treat 10 tons per hour of bars and heavy-walled tubes up to 13 in. dia. It comprises induction preheaters and combustion furnaces for austenitizing and tempering processes. Subsequent cooling takes place in the newly developed Quenching Shell, an OD/ID water sprayer with high quench severity, as well as adaptability to changing process conditions.