SES Engineering LLC has upgraded a pickle line for Steel Dynamics Flat Roll Group (SDI) with the latest
generation of Umlauf Bridles engineered by BTU. The SDI pickle line is the first in the world to use exclusively
Umlauf Bridles for the strip transport.

The paper, presented by SES LLC.at the AISTech 2019 shows in detail   the renewals in the pickle line at SDI in columbus USA.

SES and the BTU present Umlauf-Bridles in the USA.

Michael Umlauf supported SES at AISTech.

SDI’s push-pull pickle line in Columbus will be the first in the world to operate with three Umlauf Bridles

Already in 1995, BTU had supplied one Umlauf Bridle to a customer in Germany. That bridle has been in use till the present day at a recoiler downstream of a mill stand, building up strip back-tension of...