Heinrich Georg Maschinenfabrik — based in Kreuztal (www.georg.com), Germany — has supplied a new slitting line to Eisen + Stahl Service Center GmbH in Mannheim.

With this new line, the latter will be able to add slit strip from its own facilities to its product portfolio (slit strip was previously sourced from third parties).

Eisen + Stahl sells steel, stainless steel and aluminium sheet and plate cut to the size required by customers.

The new line, which is designed to handle strip up to 1,650mm wide and up to 5mm thick (2mm thick for stainless steel), will be able to produce up to 30 slit coils from one ‘mother’ coil at speeds of up to 400m/min — and pay the strip off from above or below.

This capability allows slitting to be performed with the inside or outside coil surface up, according to customer needs.

Thanks to a high degree of automation, the Georg slitting line will have much shorter non-productive times than traditional lines, while the scrap chopper features the company’s “shimless tooling” technology, which eliminates having to insert shims while the ‘knives’ are being reground.

Furthermore, an automatic CNC-based system for arranging the separators saves set-up time. Previously, the separator discs had to be installed manually; they are now automatically set at the correct positions — without any manual intervention.