Sheffield-based Special Quality Alloys (SQA) — a leading supplier of forged products, bar and machined components in nickel-based alloys, duplex, super duplex, stainless steels and carbon and alloy grades — has invested in three Prosaw Mega bandsaws specifically for sawing nickel steel billets.

Part of the Special Steel Group, SQA recently won a contract for ‘35,000 bars that had to be cut to size from billets’. The company had previously bought a number of saws from Prosaw, but this specialised rapid-sawing process was so intensive that three brand-new machines were required to fulfil the order.

Prosaw (www.prosaw.co.uk) first supplied a Mega BS330HAS heavy-duty automatic bandsaw, which was followed by a Mega H-460A heavy-duty automatic twin-column bandsaw and a second Mega 330HAS; all three Megas readily accomodate the super-fast cutting of the hard nickel steel billets.

SQA operations director Dean Matthews said: “These saws have proved themselves to be very reliable in what has been intensive service, and they have established their capability in efficiently and accurately handling a very challenging material.”