Content tagged with "cut-to-length"

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November 25, 2008

Getting it there yesterday Figure 1 A combination laser-punch machine speeds products through Greenheck Fan’s shop floor. In the building business, timing is everything. All may not go exactly as planned, and measurements for this duct hole or that wall may be slightly off the blueprint callouts. The... Read more...

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June 12, 2007

Technological quantum leap Figure 1 To generate consistent lengths and maintain flatness, Arme purchased a 60-in.-wide multiblanking line with a turnstile, coil car, payoff reel, precision leveler, crop shear, interchangeable slitter head for side trimming and multiblanking, looping pit equipment, electronic roll... Read more...

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April 10, 2007

High-speed cutting, end-finishing Tube fabricator Leading Edge Hydraulics, Rockford, Ill., supplies hydraulic tube components to the off-road and construction industry segment. The family business grew rapidly since its decision in 2003 to concentrate on hydraulic tube fabrication, rather than on general-industry tube... Read more...

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March 8, 2005

The cutting edge of cut-to-length lines When a company plans to invest in a cut-to-length line, basic line configuration is the first decision—and one of the most important—to make. The fixed-shear line is a common configuration. It can be an entirely stop-start (or "tight") line, or it can include a decoiling... Read more...

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September 14, 2004

Survival of the fastest Because metal fabricators and OEMs have increasingly strict requirements, many suppliers of sheets and blanks must provide high-quality metal stock in terms of flatness, finish, and dimensional accuracy. Competition for every bid is tight, making it easy to take the quality for granted.... Read more...

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February 13, 2003

Everything you need to know about flatteners and levelers for coil processing—Part 4 Photo Courtesy of Atlas Steel Products Co., Twinsburg, Ohio. We can almost always improve the shape of the metal, but there are limits. If you have good material coming in, you can make it into superb material. If you have bad material coming in, you might make it into... Read more...

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January 16, 2003

Everything you need to know about flatteners and levelers for coil processing—Part 3 Photo courtesy of Atlas Steel Products Co., Twinsburg, Ohio. If you have reviewed your existing equipment and processes as discussed in Part I of this article series and need to upgrade your flat-rolled processing further, you have a number of options that will be... Read more...

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November 7, 2002

Everything you need to know about flatteners and levelers for coil processing—Part 2 Metallurgically, most metals that coil processors deal with act similarly, as does the equipment used to fabricate those metals. A stress-strain curve, such as the curve plotted for carbon steel in Figure 1 , shows the relationship between the force on a metal and the metal's change in... Read more...

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October 10, 2002

Everything you need to know about flatteners and levelers for coil processing—Part 1 Does your coil processing operation preserve or improve quality? Do you struggle just to keep the quality the mills put into their flat-rolled products, or do you have equipment that can upgrade quality and add further value to your coil processing operations? To maintain... Read more...

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July 11, 2002

Getting control of your cut-to-length line Many factors should be considered when selecting a drive and control system for a cut-to-length (CTL) line. First, decide the type of CTL line best-suited for your application, specifications, and budget. Let’s assume you’ve chosen a loop roll feed. Where do you go from there?... Read more...

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