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Rad-Con Booth: 09506-5

Many of the company’s highly automated machines run on lights-out operation, meaning that they will continue to produce as long as there is raw material being fed into the system. The automated production equipment combines high volume speed and efficiency with accuracy and repeatability. Because of its investment in immediately available inventory, average lead times have been reduced from three weeks to less than a few days. As the company continues to grow globally as a high volume producer of carbide drawing dies, it becomes very important for it to continually invest in newmanufacturing technology. Paramount is also a supplier of eco-friendly products to the wire industry as its die design allows the carbide insert to be easily recycled. Thousands of kilograms of used inserts are returned to Paramount each year to be graded, sorted and transformed into good-as-new condition. The company will exhibit a full line of wire drawing dies and related equipment. Products featured include the TR-Series carbide drawing inserts, shape dies, extrusion dies, polycrystalline diamond dies, ParaLoc ™ pressure and non-pressure holders, as well as accessories.

Rad-Con is a designer and manufacturer of Bell type furnaces for spheroidize annealing of wire rod for the production of cold-heading quality wires (CHQ). Many of the largest fastener manufacturers are using Rad-Con equipment. The company is headquartered in the USA, and operates globally, with more than 75 percent of turnover outside America. It specializes in one type of Bell type furnace, one type of process annealing, and has very specific knowledge in spheroidizing while producing a clean surface that is free of decarburization.

S S Annealing from Rad-Con

Rad-Con supplies capital equipment and software, along with related services, to manufacturers in need of a high-quality batch annealing process that is part of their manufacturing of hot and cold reduced strip and wire metal coils. The bell-type batch annealing furnace (BAF) uses a protective atmosphere of 100 percent hydrogen, and it also increases

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