Morgan Stelmor® Controlled Cooling Conveyor for Wire Rod Mills

The Morgan Stelmor® Controlled Cooling Conveyor System is a controlled cooling solution for steel wire rod. Having the right cooling system is essential to precisely meet the customer's specified coil material properties. The controlled cooling conveyor is a highly versatile, reliable, and effective solution for processing quality steel wire rod products.

The Morgan Stelmor® Controlled Cooling Conveyor System facilitates processing in a wide range of conditions, including both fast- and slow-cooling modes within a single system. This capability enables wire rod mills to produce a broad spectrum of plain carbon and alloy steels, as well as stainless steels and other specialty grades.

Installing the Morgan Stelmor® Controlled Cooling Conveyor for wire rod mills results in improved as-rolled wire rod properties. This enables a broader range of steel grade production in a directly usable condition, reducing or eliminating downstream processes such as spheroidizing annealing.

The fast-cooling mode incorporates high-capacity fans located below the conveyor. These fans, which can be configured in two or three per zone, deliver air through pressurized plenum chambers to a series of nozzles that direct the air to the hot rings on the conveyor. Inside the plenum, our patented Optimesh system controls air distribution across the width of the conveyor, ensuring uniformity of exceptional consistency for both mechanical properties and metallurgical structure around the ring.

In slow-cooling mode, some or all of the insulated covers over the conveyor can be closed, allowing the mill operator to maintain the desired specific heat along its length and ensure the desired annealed condition.

Benefits of the Morgan Stelmor Controlled Cooling Conveyor

• Enables thermomechanical rolling to minimize direct downstream cold working and reduce annealing times
• Capable of both fast- and slow-cooling modes, enabling mills to produce a broad spectrum of plain carbon and alloy steels, as well as stainless steels and other specialty grades
• Ensures stable processing and reduces the chance of forming unwanted hard phases
• Optimizes processing of carbon and alloy steel grades when used in conjunction with the Morgan Reducing/Sizing Mill for low-temperature rolling and controlled cooling, producing the best possible combination of properties and dimensional control
• Special alloy rollers on the controlled cooling conveyor deck help dissipate heat from the rings during slow cooling, preventing roller distortion