Coil Processing
Above: Flatness, straightness and evenly distributed strength throughout the length of strips are the aims for two types of machines
- Written by: Corinna Petry
Above: Norco Industries specializes in fabricating complex structures for recreational vehicles.
- Written by: Corinna Petry
Above: A Fagor Arrasate-built slitting line. The company builds slitters, presses and automation technologies
Above: One part of the line performs circumferential strapping.
Above: The Georg tooling robot integrates flexibly into existing slitting lines
Written by: Andrea Pilot, director of sales, Toolingrobot, Heinrich Georg GmbH
- Written by: web
Above: The Bradbury Group installed a 62-inch-wide slitting line at Venture Steel’s plant in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico.
- Written by: Corinna Petry
Above: Toby Glen, Eric Miller, COO Alex Grasdalen and Chance Sheffield in the shop at Bemidji Steel Co.
- Written by: Corinna Petry
Above: OPP processes steel three shifts a day seven days a week and has expanded to higher strength material.
Above: One crane lift cycle now replaces five forklift trips, which represents an immense gain in productivity.
- Written by: Corinna Petry
Above: McNeilus Steel serves a variety of customers that require heavygauge, high-strength materials
- Written by: Corinna Petry
Above: Lukjan Metal Products makes round, oval, square and rectangular pipes, elbows and angles, triangles, boxes, saddles, sleeves, pans and boots.
- Written by: Modern Metals' staff
Above: Burghardt + Schmidt continually develops coil slitting technologies to meet future demands.
- Written by: Corinna Petry
Above: Norfolk Iron and Metal has installed a temper mill/cut-to-length line at its Tulsa, Oklahoma, service center.
- Written by: Corinna Petry
Above: A robot sorts and stacks sheet parts that were laser cut
- Written by: Corinna Petry
Above: Traditional slitting requires an operator’s manual intervention, which can lead to fatigue and errors.
- Written by: Corinna Petry
- Written by: Modern Metals' staff
Steel Warehouse Co. will invest $30 million to build a service center in Hickory, North Carolina.
Shown, its Osceola, Arkansas, service center.
- Written by: Lauren Duensing
- Written by: Lauren Duensing
Lines can be engineered to mix and match, withstand high-level production, and take up as little space as possible
- Written by: Lauren Duensing
Intelligent line not only handles automotive steels but also tracks coils, allowing processor to keep tabs on materials
- Written by: Lauren Duensing
Supersized heavy-gauge cut-to-length line features technological advancements—from safety features to unique recoiler
- Written by: Alan Richter
Gauge to automatically measure the widths of multiple strips of coil provides multiple benefits
- Written by: Lauren Duensing
Sophisticated new equipment uses automated technology to eliminate human error and increase efficiencies
- Written by: Super User
January 2023- A compact flying shear line reduces footprint and infrastructure costs.
- Written by: Super User
November 2022- Long-term relationship between machine manufacturer and processor helps push both companies out of their comfort zone.
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