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Heat treatment take-up systems

Dedicated heating Fives Celes has designed and manu- factured induction heating equipment for over forty years. With a strong focus on innovation, Fives Celes provides a wide range of solutions in static inverters, delivering equipment dedicated to tube and wire heating, hardening and cooling, and quenching systems.

Lämneå’s heat treatment take-up systems, Stationary block frames (SBV) and Rotating block frames (RBV) serve the coiling requirements of the majority of in-line, multi-wire process operations involving low and high carbon steel wires. As such they are a basic component of the wire mill. Applications include take-up of low carbon steel wires following annealing, annealing and plastic coating, annealing and galvanising, hard drawing and galvanised wires. Also, high carbon steel wires following patenting or patenting and galvanising.

The systems are of modular construction, each unit carrying a suitable number of units depending on the configuration of the take-up frame. The upper section provides mounting for the vertical block shaft. The lower section is of a heavy fabricated steel structure. A central column supports catwalk and handrails.

The Fives Celes range includes: MOSFET and IGBT transistor • inverters for medium and high frequency induction heating quenching tanks and cooling units • a complete thermal treatment • section based on these products Fives Celes delivers customised services all over the world. Fives Celes – France Fax : +33 3 89 76 36 79 Email : fivesceles@fivesgroup.com Website : www.fivesgroup.com/fivesceles/fr Heating and quenching line from Fives ❍ ❍ Celes

Both SBV and RBV feature double-flanged blocks on a vertical axis with wear resistant wire line surface but on the SBV the blocks are held stationary by the frame. Lämneå Bruk AB – Sweden Fax : +46 122 232 99 Email : info@lamnea.se Website : www.lamnea.se Stationary block frames from Lämneå Bruk ❍ ❍

Plasma treatment Plasmait GmbH is a supplier of in-line surface and heat treatment solutions for ferrous and non-ferrous wire, strip and tube applications. Plasma treatment is conducted in a controlled atmosphere to ensure distinct surface cleanliness and uncompromised surface quality. Plasma treatment is a dry, environment-friendly cleaning process that can replace undesired acid/alkaline cleaning techniques. Plasmait has introduced the following distinct processes: PlasmaANNEALER – High-speed annealing of ferrous and non-ferrous wire, rod, strip and tube. PlasmaCLEANER – surface degreasing and deoxidation on ferrous and non-ferrous wires, tubes or strip. PlasmaDEGREASER – Removal of oil/grease lubricants and wax protection from wire surface for applications such as welding wire or medical wire. PlasmaGRAPH – Graphite de-lubrication and annealing for hot drawn materials. (Molybdenum, Tantalum and hot drawn steels). PlasmaPREPLATE – high-speed annealing and dry surface cleaning process suitable for electro-plating and hot dip plating of non-ferrous materials. The process replaces chemical based treatments such as acid based deoxidation, alkaline based degreasing and flux based surface activation in the case of hot dip process.

Plasmait processes are available in horizontal and vertical configurations. All Plasmait processes include computer assisted inline quality control and offer greatest benefits to the applications with demanding surface and mechanical requirements. heat and dry surface treatment inline with electro plating and hot dip plating • cleaning and annealing of copper alloys, silver and gold • heat and surface treatment of stainless steels, nickel alloys and other alloys such as wolfram and molybdenum • heat and surface treatment of medical wires, welding wire and superconductors • Plasmait GmbH – Austria Fax : +43 318 252 4754 Email : info@plasmait.com Website : www.plasmait.com Plasma treatment with Plasmait ❍ ❍ technology

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