Australian manufacturer Voestalpine has invested in a slag removal, deburring and edge-rounding system from the German company Lissmac to increase production capacity and improve consistency.
Walter Radinger, process manager at Voestalpine, said: “Every year, we process over 60,000 tonnes of steel plate for the automotive industry, with components including structural parts and doors, bonnets, tail-gates and boot lids — to name but a few. What we needed was a process that was simple to set up and would provide the best available deburring quality. Additionally, we needed something that could deburr both sides of a steel plate in the same pass.”
With parts that can weigh up to 35kg, the company selected an SBM-M 1500 D2 slag removal machine, which is connected in-line with the SMB-XL 1500 G2S2 de-burring and edge-rounding machine to efficiently complete the whole process in one production cell. The steel plates are stacked on a pallet and then placed on a lifting table in front of the slag removal machine.
“In the end, we found that only Lissmac could fulfil all of our criteria, and we were especially convinced by the performance of the slag removal machine. This was particularly the case when we cut thicker plates of 25mm and more.”
In the UK, Lissmac is represented by Surface Technology Products Ltd, Birmingham (
www.surtech.co.uk).