Bar packing plant and relative process

Plant for packing bars after the rolling cycle comprising a feeding unit, a shearing machine (45) for cutting the bar to size, a pair of deflector devices (46), (47) and a bar braking device. The bar segment deflector devices send the bar segments into seats (58) arranged along the perimeters of pairs of rotating drum channels (50), (51), (52), (53) and parallel to the axis of the drum channel, after making them pass through a bar braking device (48) to slow the bars down to the predefined speeds. The bars are unloaded from the seats onto conveyors (60), (61), (62), (63), each associated with and serving one of a proximal and distal portions of the seats with respect to the braking device (48), and transported to a station where they are packed into bundles.