At ALUMINUM USA, we interviewed Dennis Meech, managing director of MINO Process Control Ltd., about the company and their thickness and flatness controls designed for hot, cold, and foil mills. In particular, Meech notes the company’s latest development, which involves migrating all of MINO’s process control systems from the older Siemens TDC platform to the latest Siemens S7-1500 platform — which is currently being installed for the first time in a mill.
Founded back in 1840, MlNO is a long-established rolling mill manufacturer, recognized for its long and successful track record in supplying equipment to both the ferrous and non-ferrous industry sectors. The group can offer “under one roof” the widest range of services in the field of rolling mills, ranging from the supply of a new rolling mill to the revamping job of an existing mill. In the aluminum and aluminum alloys sector, MINO has the capability and expertise to provide the following equipment:
- Hot Rolling Mills – single-stand reversing or multi-stand/tandem type
- Cold Rolling Mills – single-stand or multi-stand/tandem type, either four-high or six-high
- Thin Gauge and Foil Mills