Steel Mill Repairs

Improved Steel Quality, Prolonged Plant Life, and Reduced Downtime 

Due to the size and nature of steel manufacturing machinery and equipment removing large items of plant and machinery for repair and refurbishment is not a viable option, therefore it must be done in situ and that’s where the Metalock Engineering Group can help you.

If its iron making, steel making (flat or long products) casting, rolling, extruding or forging, we have successfully completed countless projects all around the world, from our network of global offices we offer our full range of steel industry related services.

The work we do can extend and prolong the working life of steel plants. It improves the quality of the steel produced and reduces the use of expensive spares. All of which reduces downtime and increases productivity.

Typical Steel Industry Repairs and Refurbishments:

• Specialist Mill alignment surveys and the installation of large-scale metrology networks
• Roughing or finishing Mill stand window machining for new wear plates
• Mill Stand screw-down boring
• Tapped hole recovery
• HSB or VSB machining
• Blast furnace Tuyer boring
• BOS Vessel bearing trunnion recovery
• Teeming Ladle trunnion recovery
• Beam Straightener drive shaft orbital machining
• Gearbox in-line boring

Major Steel Mill Machining Repairs

The Metalock Engineering Group have developed a very large range of machining equipment specifically designed for the steel industry. We have machined 7 mill stands at the same time using upwards of 40 skilled machining technicians around the clock, maximising the amount of work that can be done within the shutdown window.

These services are one of our core activities and having been involved in hundreds of successful major Steel Mill machining projects all around the world, Metalock is one of the world leaders in these fields of expertise.

Services we use in the steel industry:

• Specialist Metrology Services
  including Laser tracking and 3D Scanning surveys
• In-Situ / On site Machining
• Specialist Cold Repairs to Cast Iron
• Specialist Welding Services