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Focus on
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The top priority at Zumbach Electronic
remains customer relationships through
local presence combined with proven
high quality products, services, personal
consultations and support.
Customer benefits include:
• Increased accuracy of end product
• Improved process control
• Scrap reduction
• Savings on raw material and post
processing costs
• Increased product quality = higher
customer satisfaction
• Quick and easy installation on existing
production lines
• Seamless integration of the PC-based
system with user’s network
Zumbach Electronic AG – Switzerland
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Steel wire industry
technology
CPA is focused on the supply of
machinery and equipment for the benefit
of the global steel wire industry.
The product range includes furnaces for
austenitisation, diffusion, stress relieving
and tempering of steel wires and sheets,
galvanic coating lines for brass, zinc
and copper coating, as well as payoff
and take-up systems and wet drawing
machines.
Representing a new heat treatment
technology for high carbon steel wire
production, AEOX pure recirculation
furnaces are characterised by improved
heat transfer.
The furnace pressure is not generated by
the burners, but by a forced air circulation
of the hot furnace gases created by a
special blower.
In this way air velocities of up to 30m/s
are reached on the wire surface.
AEOX preheats the combustion air
delivered to the burners by using the
high temperature flue gas-heat content
and utilises the flue gas heat remaining
after the recuperation for further
process applications such as bath
heating.
Due to the interaction between the
cutting-edge burner technology and the
recovery of the remaining heat of the flue
gas and the dragged-out energy, energy
consumption reduction is claimed to be
up to 40 per cent.
CPA’s latest innovation is Linnox, a
wet drawing machine for drawing
high-strength and high quality
demanding steel wires, beginning from a
final diameter of 0.06mm.
▲ ▲ CPA’s AEOX heat treatment technology