Braner/Loopco installs 40-ton strip shape-correcting slitting line at Steel Technologies

Braner/Loopco has installed a 72-by ¼-in. high-strength strip shape-correcting slitting line at Steel Technologies’ coil processing center in Ghent, Ky.

The line has capacity to process 40-ton coils with mechanical properties ranging to 738 MPa in gauges from 0.024 to 0.250 in. at constant operating speeds up to 1,000 FPM. The line is equipped with a turret head slitter with multiple heads that exchange in one minute, power cleanout looping pit, nonmarking tensioner with wet and dry rolls that exchange in one minute, automatic strip tension control, a precision CNC strip shape-correction leveler, and the ability to change recoiler IDs between 20 and 24 in. in two minutes. The new line joins an existing ½-in. Braner/Loopco slitter at the Ghent plant.