Industry News
26
N
ovember
2014
Ultra-modern copper tube plant
MACHINERY International Corporation,
based in the USA, has been appointed
as the exclusive sales agent of an ultra-
modern fully automated plant for the
production of copper tube.
The plant produces 4,000,000 pounds
(1,814 metric tons) per month of inner-
groove tubing for air conditioning and
refrigeration industry and standard water
tube for the plumbing industry using
the most modern horizontal continuous
casting and cast and roll technology.
This plant is being sold exclusively
through
Machinery
International
Corporation (
and
will be sold in its entirety, not as individual
machines, for relocation outside North
America.
The plant includes: four strand SMS
horizontal continuous casting plant
with automated loading and extraction
system; SMS automated shell milling
line; SMS Model HRM100 continuous
high reduction mill and coiler with 1,700
HP (1,285kW) drive; Schumag double
drawing and single drawing continuous
lines; SMS-Meer 84" spinner block;
and an automated plant-wide Asmag
computerised coil basket transportation
system to automatically feed tube
products to and frommachinery station as
well as several other innovation features.
Machinery International Corporation
– USA
Website:
New Shanghai office for Metalube
LUBRICANTS manufacturer Metalube
is continuing its global expansion by
moving into larger offices in Shanghai,
China. The company now has four
offices in the Asia Pacific region –
Shanghai and Dongguan in China,
Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.
Maurice Ngai, general manager, Asia
Pacific, commented, “It is so positive to
be part of a company such as Metalube
that understands the importance of
having a real and physical presence in
the countries where it exports to. The
investment is certainly paying off. We
have witnessed year on year growth in
this important and fast growing region,
and this year alone we expect to see a
further 40 per cent increase in sales.
“Our wire drawing lubricants have
been exceptionally well received here
and we have big plans to launch a host
of new product ranges into the region
over the coming year. Our customers
are comforted by the knowledge that
we have industry experts, who speak
their language, on hand, to ensure a
seamless operation.”
Metalube Ltd
– UK
Fax: +44 161 775 7511
Email:
Website:
Laser technology veteran
celebrates 40
th
anniversary
THE Swiss company LASAG AG was
founded in 1974 as a wholly owned
subsidiary of ASUAG (Allgemeine
Schweizerische
Uhren AG),
to
manufacture lasers for drilling watch
jewels. Since then the company has
sold more than 4,000 lasers to around
1,500 customers worldwide.
LASAG became part of the Rofin
Group in October 2010, thereby gaining
access to its global sales and service
network, as well as the internal Rofin
technology pool.
40 years after being founded, the
head office in Thun, Switzerland, has a
team of 48 highly qualified employees
who develop and sell between 150 and
200 lasers per year for varied precision
industrial applications. In several areas,
such as needle and turbine blade drilling,
Rofin-LASAG AG claims to have been
the world market leader for many years.
Thecompanyhas continued todevelop
its lasers as well as its processes. This
led, in 2009, to the addition of the first
fibre lasers to the established solid-
state lasers, which make a significant
contribution to the company’s revenue.
LASAG offers optimally matched
processing heads for a portfolio of laser
sources. This includes solutions for
special applications, for example rotating
optics for circular welding, even for parts
that are positioned irregularly to each
other, or multiple processing heads for
simultaneously cutting multiple identical
components, of which more than 100
have been sold in the last two years.
Andreas Ewald, managing director of
Rofin-LASAG AG, said, “In its 40-year
history, LASAG has repeatedly helped
to shape the technological change.
Because the change from lamp-pumped
laser sources to fibre laser sources went
well, we can now continue to forge ahead
with our process development in ultra-
short pulse laser technology thanks to
the possibilities in the Rofin Group.”
Rofin-LASAG AG
– Switzerland
Fax: +41 33 227 45 73
Website:
Rofin-Sinar Laser GmbH
– Germany
Fax: +49 40 7 33 63 4100
Email:
Website:
(from left) Hansruedi Wandfluh, Andreas
Ewald, Prof Ursula Keller and Thomas Merk,
at a celebration of the 40
th
anniversary of
Rofin-LASAG AG
