Thursday, March 31, 2011

SMS MEER

‘’Best Supervisor of the Year 2010’’

Baosteel presents award to SMS Meer employee

One SMS Meer employee in particular the eye of Chinese customer Baosteel with his ambition and personal dedication: the management team at Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. chose Horst Barkowic as its ‘Supervisor of the Year.’

Mr. Barkowic and his colleagues supported Baosteel during the commissioning of the new 60-MN extrusion press line for steel tubes. The Commissioning had originally been scheduled to take place over twelve months. The SMS Meer team managed it in just 100 days. ‘’You impressed us greatly with your performance’’, said baosteel Head of Division Chen Jianfeng at the prize-giving ceremony in Shanghai. ‘’A great result which was made possible thanks to your personal commitment in particular.’’

The new press line at Baosteel is one of the most modern plants of its type in the world. It produces stainless steel tubes of various alloys and is extremely flexible in terms of its application as it covers a tube diameter range of around 50 to 350 mm and wall thicknesses of between 4 and 40 mm. The tubes are used in power plant construction, for example. Where extreme temperatures and high resistance to aggressive acids are required.

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