The second international conference on Rolling and Finishing Technology of Steel (RAFTS-2015) entered its second day on Wednesday. The proceedings of the day started off with presentations by manufacturers associated with the steel industry.
International Steel Services Inc (New Delhi), SKF GmbH (Germany), Yogiji Digi (Faridabad) and Gontermann-Peipers GmbH (Germany) made presentations in the first of the two manufacturers’ sessions. The presentations focused on overall cost-effectiveness in rolling mills through various technological interventions.
The second session featured presentations by FAG Bearings India ltd (Vadodara), Mersen India Pvt ltd (Bangalore), PSI Metals Group (Belgium) and Titan Metal Fabricators (India). The presentations highlighted some process equipment, software and services typical for the steel industry.
The oral paper presentations on the second day were made in six parallel sessions. A total of 32 papers were presented in these sessions. The presenters dwelt on aspects related to emerging technologies in flat rolling, quality improvement measures in long products, special steels processing, emerging technologies in shape rolling, quality improvement in flat rolling as well as tribology and roll management.
One of the papers presented highlighted an Import Substitution product C350 CRNO developed at Rourkela Steel Plant, which has ubiquitous applications in forming the core of electrical transformers. This paper was presented by UM Mahajan in a session chaired by RDCIS GM (Rolling Mill) PP Sengupta.
In addition to the oral paper presentations, a total of 28 papers were presented through two concurrently held poster presentation sessions. The first of the poster presentation sessions was centered on the developments in long product rolling technology and the second on those in flat product rolling technology.