Steel Technologies installs automotive shape-correction/slitting/inspection line

Steel Technologies has installed a Braner/Loopco coil-to-coil shape-correction/slitting/surface inspection line in its Crawfordsville, Ind., coil processing facility. It is designed to process 72-in.-wide coated and bare cold-rolled coil in gauges from 0.015 to 0.135 in.

The line is equipped with automatic tension control, automatically positioned strip guides, entry and exit shears with 5-sec. cycle time, and an automatic belt wrapper. The line also is equipped with a precision shape-correction leveler, surface inspection apparatus, an elevating looping pit floor, and the ability to change rewind coil IDs from 20 to 24 in. in 2 min.