Metallurgy - Import export

The steel industry is a specific sub-sector of the stationary industry. The term steelmaking refers to a specific area of metallurgy that involves the technique of processing iron-rich ore to produce iron or various types of ferrous alloys, including steel, pig iron and alloy steels. The steel industry needs very reliable and robust equipment: no malfunction is allowed. Rolling mills and furnaces must not be stopped by a defective hydraulic cylinder. The main features of the cylinders used in this sector, apart from ensuring high reliability, are that they are designed to operate in dusty environments and at very high ambient temperatures, even above 100°C. This makes it necessary to equip the cylinders with seals that retain their functionality even at such high temperatures. Seals and gaskets made of special fluorocarbonate material (Viton) are used. HIDROMEC develops hydraulic cylinders and systems for applications in the steel industry that are reliable, durable and comply with the relevant environmental standards.

AIC manufactures and supply PLC platforms, AC&DC drives panels suited to allow an enhanced power control of each equipment using all the drives available on the market, such as Rockwell Automation, ABB, Siemens, Nidec, Schneider, according to the customer needs/requirement. The power control supply includes: - AC Medium voltage panels suited with dedicated power transformers, up to 7MW; - Low voltage AC Drives: Single motor drives, Multidrives with DC Bus supplier; - Low voltage DC Drives; - Soft-starter for smooth acceleration; - MCC for fixed speed drive design; - AC & DC motor and gear motor basic & detailed design and supply.

GENERAL OPERATION The machine is built-up of a rotating plate and a knot device that allow to create the requested wire ties. When the cycle is running, the pinch roll insert the wire in the machine and the rotating plate starts to rotate creating the wire ties. The crossed ends of the wire are held together and twisted by rotation of the gripper. AUTOMATIC CYCLE When the operator press the “start” button, the automatic cycle command is sent to the machine. This signal allow to insert the wire into the rotating plate following the sequence below: - Realignment and lifting of the twister. - Realignment of the wire step cylinder. - Closing of the pinch roll. - Moving forward of the puller. - Insertion of the wire by means of forward rotation of the pinch roll. When the twister is in high position, the puller is moved forward, in order to pull out the wire ties. With a time delay, the machine starts a new tying cycle (according to the number of the ties set in the operator’s panel).

Brand: ATS Mechatronics - Automazioni Industriali Capitanio (AIC) Min stack size: 300 x 300 mm Max stack size: 1100 x 1100 mm Wire diameter (upon customer's request): 5,5 ÷ 8 mm Knot position: 45 degrees Number of turns (Selectable via control panel): 1 or 2 Turn type (Selectable via control panel): Tight or Loose Installed power: 35 kW Working pressure: 120 bar (Hydr.) Tying cycle: 11,5 s

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