‘FIVES - MANNESMANN MEER’ 8” Seamless Tube Plant(Combination)
8” SEAMLESS TUBE PLANT
‘FIVES – MANNESMANN MEER’ Seamless Tube Plant
Once known as Vallourec Bearing Tubes Montbard, this facility can produce hot and cold rolled seamless high precision tubes from 25 to 203 mm OD and 2 to 53 mm WT based on a long-established state-of-the-art manufacturing process.
The Montbard plant’s roots trace back to Société française des corps creux, which was one of the first adopters of Mannesmann technology in France.
The 80,000 tons per year capacity plant’s assets are made available as a complete production line, including reheating furnaces, hot rolling equipment, heat treatment furnaces, a variety of cold pilger mills, as well as multi-purpose lines for straightening, finishing, testing and packing. Main equipment is made available along with spare parts, workshop, laboratory, overhead cranes and pipe storage racks.
Make (main):
· FIVES DMS MONTBARD
· MANNESMANN MEER
Mothballed since: 2025
Processed material: CrMo, CrMn alloyed steels
Starting material: 80 – 240 mm round billets
End products:
o Hot Rolled Tubes 63 – 203 mm OD; 8.0 – 53 mm WT
o Cold Rolled Tubes 25 – 102 mm OD; 2.0 – 20 mm WT
Capacity: 80,000 tons per year
Consists of:
Billet Yard
Billet Storage Racks
Gantry Crane for Billets’ Handling
Accessories incl. 10T Power Tongue
Billets’ Cutting Station
(2) CENTROCUT Cutting Saws
Feeding and Extraction Tables
Rotary Hearth Furnace
Round billets (Ø 80–240 mm) are heated in a rotary hearth furnace.
Pusher Piercer
A Stiefel-type pusher piercer transforms heated billets into hollow shells.
3-Roll Elongation Mill
Assel-type 3-roll elongation mill stretches and thins the shells to desired dimensions.
Reheating Furnace
Beam-type reheating furnace prepares elongated shells for final sizing.
14-Stands Calibration Mill
Rotary Sizing Mill
Cooling Bed & Sampling
Cutting Saws
Cooling Bed
Sampling
Workshop
Roll Grinders
Lathes
CNC Machines
Guides’ Shop
Guides’ optical alignment devices
Roller Guides
Static Guides
Guides’ rollers
Spare Parts & Consumables
Spare Stands
Rolling Rolls
Cantilever Stands Rolls
Bearings
Combination Lot of the following:
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