A service call in Korea, found an Italian plate roller still in use by its Korean customer and still performing as it did its first day of service 25 years ago, without ever having had any single major failures, for sure it was built in the proper way - an Italian way! That clearly was the case during a technical service performed by DAVI engineer at POSCO, the Korean steel mill giant. The plate roll is a DAVI four roll with a capacity 10 ft x 4” 1/4. The machine got an upgrade of the control system, with the advanced DAVI iRoll, with the possibility of remote programming and performance

Is not an easy task to sell SIX machines to the same customer but Italy's DAVI, just supplied THREE more pieces of machinery to its Saudi Arabian customer, Hidada. They were an angle roll for beams IPE 600 and two plate roll, a 3 roll, a 2500 x 28 mm (8,2ft x 1,102") and a 3 roll variable axis 4000 x 90 mm (14,75ft x 3,622"). These machines are the latest ones purchased by this important customer in Jeddah, which had since 1998 a 4 roll 3000 x 40 mm (10ft x 1,575") and a 3000 x 26 mm (10ft x 1,024"), plus an angle roll for IPE 300. "We can really say – says Orazio DAVI, President of DAVI –

Orazio Davi, president of the Italian company DAVI explains to Metalworking Production and Purchasing Magazine editor, Rob Colman, how new technologies are helping his company train and support clients. Video shot at the Lamiera trade show in Bologna, Italy.