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Austrian Strip Mill Places Order For Primetals' Eco Slide discs
08/28/2015 - Primetals Technologies has won an order to outfit two coilers at an Austrian strip mill with side guiding beams and its Eco Slide wear discs, the company has announced.
According to Primetals, it will install the beams and wear discs on coiler Nos. 3 and 4 at voestalpine's Linz mill. The Eco Slide discs are already in use at one guiding side of coiler No. 3, Primetals said.
"The order was placed in response to the positive operating results and cost-saving potential," Primetals said in a statement.
Primetals said the advantage to the Eco Slide discs is that they are rotatable, allowing wear from the passing strips to be distributed evenly. As a result, Eco Slide discs have a service life of four weeks, whereas conventional wear strips last for two to three days, it said.
The company also said the discs are self-cleaning.
"The periodic and gradual rotation of the discs means that only small amounts of rubbed-off material from the guided strip edges adhere to the discs. Such deposits are rubbed off by the following strips," Primetals said.
"This ... eliminates the manual cleaning of the wear strips required for certain strip qualities to prevent deposits from the strip edges falling off and damaging the surface of the strip."
"The order was placed in response to the positive operating results and cost-saving potential," Primetals said in a statement.
Primetals said the advantage to the Eco Slide discs is that they are rotatable, allowing wear from the passing strips to be distributed evenly. As a result, Eco Slide discs have a service life of four weeks, whereas conventional wear strips last for two to three days, it said.
The company also said the discs are self-cleaning.
"The periodic and gradual rotation of the discs means that only small amounts of rubbed-off material from the guided strip edges adhere to the discs. Such deposits are rubbed off by the following strips," Primetals said.
"This ... eliminates the manual cleaning of the wear strips required for certain strip qualities to prevent deposits from the strip edges falling off and damaging the surface of the strip."
