Bristle Brushes
How to Use Non-Woven Abrasive Belts: A Complete Industrial Guide
How to Use Non-Woven Abrasive Belts: A Complete Industrial Guide Non-woven abrasive belts are an essential tool in industrial metal finishing, providing consistent surface conditioning, deburring, and polishing. They are widely used in strip metal production, coil lines, and precision manufacturing for both ferrous and non-ferrous metals. If you’re a [...]
Read moreFlat Strip and Sheet Metal Producers: Industry Insights & Atlantech Process Solutions
Understanding Flat Strip and Sheet Metals Flat strip and sheet metals are essential forms of rolled metal used across manufacturing sectors. While strip metal is generally narrow and coiled, sheet metal is produced in wider, flat sheets. These materials can be made from ferrous metals (like carbon steel and stainless steel) or non-ferrous metals (such [...]
Read moreCopper Strip Metal Producers: A 2025 Industry Overview
Key Global Producers Aurubis AG – Based in Hamburg, Germany, Aurubis is a premier copper recycler and producer. It specializes in converting metal concentrates, scrap, and residues into high-purity copper cathodes, as well as roll products such as wire rods, continuously cast profiles, and flat-rolled strips.Wikipedia KME Group – A European heavyweight [...]
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Metal Strip Producers FAST FACTS That Save Time & Money
For Metal Strip Producers Looking to Optimize the Surface Cleanliness in Their Metal Strip Cleaning Section Process Wide-face Abrasive and Non-Abrasive Bristle Brushes in Your Cleaning Section With both abrasive and non-abrasive Bristle Brushes, increasing the stiffness of the brush improves efficiency in your alkali and rinse sections, because [...]
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Bristle Brush Pro Tip #2 The Spaghetti Effect
Be aware of the process taking place inside your machine. In our first bristle brush pro-tip, we demonstrated the importance of making sure to engage the tip of a bristle brush with a strip surface. This content piggybacks on the concept of bristle tip engagement and will bring you value from understanding how to get […]
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METAL SURFACE SCALE CLEANING BRUSHES
The suitability of the brush roll is measured by cleaning capacity and their lifetime, but also for the cost per kilometer of cleaned metallic sheet and the risk of collapse and damage before the end of the expected long-lasting life: A brush that cleans a lot but does not last is not useful. A long-lasting […]
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GETTING STRIP CLEAN-BRISTLE BRUSH
The reason your strip isn’t clean. (You don’t need more pressure.) Did you ever take a look at your finished metal strip surface and throw your hands up because you can’t figure out why it’s not getting all the dirt, smut, and iron fines off the surface? You probably thought there was something wrong with […]
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REPLACING SCRUBBER BRUSHES
How to replace your metal strip surface cleaning section scrubber brushes, without damaging them. Well, APT actually has figured out a way, but many metal strip and coil producing foundries still change the large heavy-duty industrial scrubber brushes the old way, which puts them at risk for bending the shaft or damaging the bearing […]
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Re-think Brushing – Brush Scrubbers and Satin Finishing
CLEANING SECTION BRUSH SCRUBBERS AND SURFACE CLEANING & FINISHING This is a subject that many users would like to forget, rather than be reminded of! Having built cleaning section equipment for over 60 years, we have looked at many process lines and listened to scrubber issues from maintenance, operations, and quality team members and have […]
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APT MULTI-FIL BRUSHES LAST LONGER CLEANING AND FINISHING
FOR FLAT METAL STRIP, COIL, SHEET APPLICATIONS Today’s customers want to increase cleaning and line speed in existing (or new!) cleaning equipment. And the problem is conventional cleaning sections/lines have mechanical limitations. Current line configurations don’t have free space to add new degreasing, electrolytic or brushing units, and line [...]
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