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CORR Plastik Industrial Ltd, one of
Brazil’s major producers of PVC pipe, has
substantially increased production capacity
with a new factory in the north east of the
country. The extrusion lines for the new
plant were supplied by the German extrusion
specialist KraussMaffei Berstorff, longtime
supply partners for Corr Plastik.
Ever since its founding 17 years ago,
CHICAGO-based Elderfield & Hall Inc and
Idaho-based Pro-Fusion Technologies Inc
have jointly announced that Elderfield &
Hall has acquired Pro-Fusion Technologies
Inc.
The two companies have been closely
associated for ten years, jointly developing
power supplies and tungsten grinders
for the micro welding and orbital welding
industries.
“This is a classic case of two companies
being able to create greater value for industry
when they are combined, than when they
function separately,” explained Bob Hall,
president of Elderfield & Hall. “The central
stocking point will be in Chicago which
provides significant geographic advantages
in serving our customers,” he added,
“while the production of precision, pre-
ground tungsten electrodes and assembly
of machines will remain in Idaho where a
skilled team already exists.”
“Pro-Fusion’s products have a large
international following,” agreed Pro-Fusion
Brazilian pipe producer Corr Plastik has used
extrusion lines supplied by KraussMaffei
Berstorff. In the intervening years, the
company has grown rapidly. It is now looking
to double its pipe production capacity, and to
achieve this is installing more extrusion lines
from Munich.
The Corr Plastik site near Maceió, the
capital of Alagoas state, covers an area of
president, Lisa Rust, “and Chicago definitely
provides major logistical advantages
worldwide.”
“The core of Pro-Fusion is the DualArc
80 Micro-Tig/Micro-Plasma power supply”
she continued. “It has remained the state of
the art since being developed by Bob Hall
and Pro-Fusion in the late nineties. Our
combined resources in Chicago will provide
best in class support for present and future
customers.”
Both companies are privately held
and terms of the transaction were not
disclosed.
Elderfield & Hall was founded in 1979
as a representative of specialised industrial
hand tools for petro-chemical and nuclear
construction. In the mid-1990s the company
moved into the design and sales of small,
precision bandsaws.
Bandsaws led to fabrication and that led
to welding equipment, also specialised, and
the development of the DualArc 80. The
first of its kind, dual function, Micro-Tig/
60,000 square metres. In a first construction
phase, the company has built a 7,500 square
metre plant to produce water, irrigation and
drainage pipes. In late 2009, KraussMaffei
Berstorff supplied four pipe extrusion lines
for the new plant.
Two of the lines were double-strand
lines headed by KMD 75-36/R twin-screw
extruders from KraussMaffei Berstorff’s
Performance series. The other two were
single-strand lines with KMD 90-36/R
Performance twin-screw extruders. The
lines are configured to produce pipe with
an outer diameter of 20 to 250mm and are
capable of producing up to 2,800 tonnes of
PVC pipe a month.
In January 2010, Corr Plastik boosted
production at the plant to 3,100 tons a month
with a line for corrugated pipe.
This tonnage, together with theproduction
at the main plant in Cabreúva in São Paulo
state, brings Corr Plastik’s monthly pipe
output to 6,000 tons a month, making the
company one of the three biggest PVC pipe
producers in Brazil.
KraussMaffei – Germany
Fax: +49 89 8899 3092
Email:
Website:
Micro-Plasma power supply, the DualArc
80 remains the state of the art. Today,
thousands of KAMA bandsaws, the world’s
most accurate, operate reliably around
the world and hundreds of DualArc 80
power supplies are in use in micro-welding
and orbital welding applications on every
continent.
Founded in 1998, Pro-Fusion began as
a provider of precision, pre-ground tungsten
electrodes and grew to develop and integrate
a family of products for the micro-welding
and orbital welding industries. In addition
to the DualArc 80, Pro-Fusion developed
the industry leading Sharp Shooter™
tungsten grinder of which hundreds are in
service around the world providing accurate,
repeatable, tungsten grinding capability to
their owners.
Elderfield & Hall Inc – USA
Fax: +1 312 829 6733
Email:
Website:
Corr Plastik doubles production capacity
Elderfield & Hall acquires Pro-Fusion Technologies
One of the KraussMaffei Berstorff extrusion
lines at Corr Plastik Industrial Ltd.