High-Performance Equipment

Air-wiping equipment featuring:

Patented automatic air knife lip-cleaning device
Air Knife positioners with retraction that moves the entire Air knife Unit to the front of the pot
Newly developed FOEN^®air knives gap width adjustment device which allows less nitrogen to be used, reduces noise and air/nitrogen turbulence on the bath surface (creating less dross), and uses the airflow only on the actual strip width, which potentially saves up to 75% of the wiping media that would normally be wasted
Touchless edge-coating control device
Laser measurement for strip profile and distance-to-strip control

Bath equipment featuring:

Special coated sink, stabilizing, and correcting rolls
Pneumatic or scanning (motorized) scraper to remove zinc or aluminum/zinc deposits from the sink roll
Scanning scraper to remove deposits from the correcting and stabilizing rolls (motorized or manual)
Dross grabber for easy removal of bottom dross from the pot
Robot for drossing the top of the metal level

Nitrogen wiping equipment featuring:

Control equipment featuring:

Independent and stand-alone computerized automation and control package incl. HMI, PC, and Database
Personal preinstalled data storage for automatic equipment setup
Fully automatic integrated coating weight control moving to new parameters for the next coil based on archived data for that product
Closed loop control interface to coating measuring gauges
MBC Controller (feed forward mathematical coating weight model)

Special devices for galvanneal production featuring: