TPT July 2016

19 / 84

JULY 2016 17
I NDUS T RY
IT’S THE TOOLS
THAT SAY HOW GOOD YOU ARE
T-DRILL’s machines are used in wide
varietyoftubeandpipefabricationinthe
field of automotive, HVAC, shipbuilding
and stainless steel equipment within
the food & dairy, pharmaceutical and
water treatment industries.
MANUFACTURING REQUIREMENTS VARY
– SO DO OPTIMUM SOLUTIONS
Flanging Collaring
Chipless cutting Tube end spinning
Meet us at Tube China, BoothNo. E3D03
and find out more about T-DRILL’s best
tube and pipe fabrication solutions for
different requirements.
AHC’s plant in China
DUTCH industrial company Aalberts Industries has operated
a plant for surface treatment of components near Shanghai,
China, for around two years, under the name Hangzhou AHC
Surface Treatment Technology Co Ltd. Since early 2016 this
plant has been officially integrated into the AHC Group, which
is itself part of Aalberts Industries NV.
TheAHC Group, with its headquarters in Germany, focuses
on providing technically functional coatings of surfaces. AHC
Hangzhou can draw on over 50 years of coating experience
within the AHC Group. The AHC group finishes around one
billion components annually for thousands of customers in all
key industries. Overall, more than 40 processes and more
than 100 process variations are used in more than 20 plants
for close proximity to customers.
At the Hangzhou plant the concept of sustainable
environmental protection and energy efficiency meets
stringent Chinese requirements. Reproducible and robust
processes are necessary in order to be able to control the
high differentiation of finishing of customer components. For
this reasonAHC’s process experience was used in the design
of the coating systems and the wastewater technology.
AHCsuppliessurfacecoatings formechanical engineering,
and for large system suppliers to the automotive industry.
Fuel pump casings, impellers for turbochargers and control
pistons for automatic transmissions all made from aluminium
alloys are protected against wear and corrosion.
The team at AHC Hangzhou provides different processes
of anodisation and hard anodisation as well as electroless
nickel plating of aluminium components. In addition, non-
ferrous metals and ferrous materials, including stainless
steels, are treated with diverse electroless nickel processes.
Components of up to 1,000kg and with dimensions up
to 3,000mm length x 600mm width x 1,200mm height are
treated in the anodising line. Processes are hard anodising
Hart-Coat®, Hart-Coat GLATT (HC-GL), and technical
anodising, in each case with the possibility of black colouring
and repressing.
Hangzhou AHC Surface Treatment
Technology Co, Ltd – China
Website:
AHC Oberflächentechnik GmbH – Germany
Website: