Process Machines
Minimizing Production Disruptions: The True Cost of Machine Breakdowns in Factories
WHY APT-WESERO? In the fast-paced world of manufacturing, every moment counts. The efficiency and productivity of a factory are directly tied to its machinery’s functionality. When a crucial machine breaks down, the entire production process comes to a grinding halt, resulting in significant financial losses and operational setbacks. To underscore [...]
Read moreHow much is a clean steel strip surface worth to you?
Hello, my name is David Thiemann and I am a Director at APT. We are a manufacture of wide face non-woven abrasive brushes, cleaning section process equipment, and customized brush machines for metal surface cleaning, degreasing, deoxidizing, descaling, and finishing flat metal strip, sheet, plate, and large and small parts. Today we’d like to ask […]
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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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PROCESS MACHINE MODULAR DESIGN FOR EASE OF MAINTENANCE
Process is reduced to disconnect, pull out old, put in new, reconnect Increase line uptime Concentrate maintenance to be performed on the entire unit Minimum on machine maintenance time In 2013 the red bull racing team set the F-1 record pit stop at 1.923 seconds. The common request we hear is what we call the […]
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ULTRASONIC CONTINUOUS CLEANING SYSTEMS FOR WIRE ALLOY
There are 3 methods industrial wire, rod, and bar manufacturers and producers use today for cleaning, degrading, and removing stearates, and drawings oils from the metal surface. Electrolytic cleaning using chemicals, Mechanical cleaning by means of shot blasting, coated abrasives, and/or abrasive brushing, and Ultrasonic cleaning In today’s [...]
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PROCESS OPTIMIZATION: FILTRATION SYSTEMS
Nearly every filtration system in metal strip producing lines show weak points that compromise effective filtration. As a result oil and iron fines are redeposited on the surface in closed-loop lines, alkali solutions, shorten process life due to premature media saturation. We can be really good at getting the oil, iron fines, dirt, smut, etc. […]
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WHY STRIP CLEANLINESS IS IMPORTANT
Steel producers, galvanizers, coil coaters, and all flat metal producers must get the strip surface clean by getting surface oils and iron fines cleaned off the strip surface. Why? In the process of rolling metal strip, when we go from thick to thinner, narrow to wider strip, the top layer of the strip surface tears […]
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After Pot Cooling Tower Turn Roll Surface Brush Cleaning Machine For Hot Dip Galvanizing Lines
Hot Dip Galvanizing Tower Turn Roll Cleaning By Means of Brush Machine Mechanical Cleaning Issue: After passing through the zinc pot, the just coated strip surface has solidified zinc particles partially adhering to its surface. Should they transfer onto the tower roll and adhere to the roll surface, defects on the strip occur on every […]
Read moreSURFACE CLEANLINESS MEASURABILITY
To begin the process of updating an existing cleaning system one would look at the efficiency of each existing section and its operating cost, as a guide for future modification or replacement. Most of which are all offline measurements and not real-time. The easiest, quickest, and least expense method currently to implement as a measure […]
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Surface Defects and their Control in Hot Dip Galvanized and Galvannealed Sheets
P. Saravanan, S Srikanth R&D Centre for Iron and Steel,Steel Authority of India Limited, Ranchi-834 002 INDIA Abstract: Inspite of significant advancements in continuous galvanizing technology and the resulting improvements in surface quality of hot dip galvanized and galvannealed coatings, producing entirely blemish- free coatings still [...]
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