Annual report 2019

69 Železiarne Podbrezová a.s.: ANNUAL REPORT 2019 LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS Cover Steel tubes - the backbone of many industrial sectors Page 2 "New plant" – aerial view of the tube rolling mill and the tube drawing mills Page 4 Continuous casting machine - ladles on the rotating turret that moves the ladle into the casting position above the tundish Page 8 Continuous casting machine - casts pass through the drawing and straightening stands Page 10 Taking a sample of steel from the electric arc furnace Page 12 Steel blooms of square cross-section, dispatch warehouse of the steel mill Page 28 Hollow ends are cropped off after the push bench and the mandrel bar extractor Page 40 Piercing press - the mandrel forms a hole through a bloom centre – a square cross-section is transformed into a circular in the die block Page 42 Processed tubes are cooled down at the cooling bed Page 44 Tube cuts in precision length, designed for the automotive industry