EoW January 2013

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New 30-tonne rebatch line for UK site

New sales chief Daniel Zappa took over as head of sales at the Schlatter Group in September 2012, replacing Herbert Wenker. 40-year-old Mr Zappa has worked for Schlatter in various roles since 1995 and has been a member of the management board since 2003. Ladle furnace Tenova Melt Shops has been contracted by Arcelor Mittal to provide the turnkey supply of a 300-ton ladle furnace which will operate in integrated cycles in Arcelor Mittal’s plant at Ghent, Belgium, and specialise in high quality steel for automotive sector. The technology will be operative in December 2013. Technical director Dave Henninger has been promoted to the position of technical director for Bridon American Corporation (BAC), taking over from David Sleightholm. Mr Henninger will lead Bridon American’s efforts in product and process engineering, technical customer service and

PCT has recently supplied a 30t under-roller rebatch line to one of the world’s major umbilical manufacturers located in the UK. The under-roller rebatch line is able to rewind hose between two reels, allowing the user to either supply a specific length from one drum to another or to recoil a badly wound drum. The line consists of two take-up/pay off units facing each other where a single traverse unit controls the product lay on the take-up drum. The lines can also be run in either direction. ▲ ▲ Work underway on the rebatch line

encloses the line and sensors fitted to entrance points, which automatically reduces the speed of the winding to safely allow operators to work within the area. PCT Ltd is a privately owned company based in Newcastle UK with subsidiaries in the USA and China. The company designs and supplies coiling, handling and packaging solutions for flexible products such as plastic pipe, sub-sea umbilical, power cables, flow-lines and steel wire rope. PCT Ltd – UK Website : www.pipeoil.co.uk

under-rollers is the ability to swap the traverse unit from one machine to the other so that either machine can be the take-up. The traverse unit also includes a dancer arm, which provides feedback to trim the speed of the pay-off unit. The units are designed to take drums up to 4m in diameter by 2.6m wide and a weight of up to 30,000kg. fully compliant with EU health and safety standards and has been fitted with a number of safety features. These include safety fencing which completely The rebatch line is

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Full programme display at EuroBLECH

UDK20: Double sheet detection for all metals. UDK20 is especially in the focus of all automotive manufacturers which produce aluminium body parts. Press shop managers prefer the easy Teach-In and the availability of all modern Fieldbus interfaces such as ProfiNet and Ethernet/IP. NS9N-AAD-SC: Weld seam detection for narrow steel strips. This new sensor detects within milliseconds the arrival of a weld seam and thus protects the tools of fast-moving punching presses. A must-have for all makers of semi-finished products and metal fittings. Exhibition innovation: A non-contacting double sheet detection system of new technology. Designed for operation in high-speed press lines with magnet conveyors. Sheets are checked at full conveyor speed and thus double sheet detection does not create any limitations to the press throughput.

At the EuroBLECH Exhibition in Hanover, Roland Electronic showed its complete programme of automation products for the sheet metal processing industry.

The highlights at the show were:

new product development.

Roland Electronic GmbH – Germany Website : www.roland–electronic.com

▲ ▲ Both the UDK 20, top, and NS9N-AAD-SC were displayed by Roland

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