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Industry N ews
Compressed
gases safety
handbook
WELDABILITY-SIF, a UK-based welding
consumable and equipment supplier, has
published a new 64-page ‘Compressed
Gases Safety Handbook’ for personnel
handling and using compressed gases in
industrial environments.
It is important that operatives using
compressed gases understand the
properties of the gases and are conversant
with the relevant Codes of Practice &
Guidance Notes issued by the BCGA
(British Compressed Gases Association).
The book, which is available free of charge,
has been written as an educational aid
to operatives, and covers in detail the
properties of the most common gases
used in industry, the types of regulators
used and safety checks required, the
importance of using flashback arrestors
and why they should be used, as well as
the handling and use of oxy-fuel cylinders.
The book also discusses manifold
systems and the storage and transportation
of cylinders, as well as providing information
on cryogenic gases, their properties and
the hazards when being used. There is
also a chapter on solidified carbon dioxide
(CO2), its properties, safety precautions
required, transportation and disposal.
Weldability-SIF is also running a series
of one- and two-day gas safety training
courses at its headquarters facility in
Hertfordshire, UK, which provide practical
training and certification of verified
achievement in the use, handling, storage
and inspection of compressed gas cylinders
and associated equipment.
Weldability-SIF – UK
Fax: +44 1462 482202
Email:
Website:
The new compressed gases
safety handbook from Weldability-SIF
OVAKO Tube & Ring has successfully
commissioned its new ring rolling plant
from SMS Meer. The company has thus
expanded the annual capacity of the works
in Hofors in Central Sweden to 55,000
tons.
The new plant of type RiWa 2000/80 is
the world’s largest ring rolling plant in which
industrial robots transport and position the
workpieces.
The fully automated plant consists of
a ring-blank press with three permanent
work stations and a radial-axial ring rolling
machine.
The modern industrial robots perform
the workpiece transfer within the press and
between the forming units. “The largest
types of robots currently available on the
market are in use here. We have equipped
them with special gripping tongs for the
specific application,” says Robert Düser
from the ring rolling product unit at SMS
Meer.
Ovako Tube & Ring produces profiled
rings with rectangular cross section and
outside diameters from 200 to 1,200mm on
the new plant. The maximum ring height
is 350mm, and the weight lies between
50 and 250kg. The products are used in
the automotive and machine engineering
industries.
It is the fourth ring rolling machine
from SMS Meer actively in operation in
Hofors.
Ovako has already ordered a fifth
ring rolling machine from SMS Meer. It is
scheduled for delivery in 2012.
SMS Meer – Germany
Fax: +49 211 881 774449
Email:
Website:
SMS Meer ring rolling plant commissioned