Market leading speed and capabilities
At Midway Metals, we pride ourselves on quality and innovation. In light of this, we are always looking to build upon our in-house capabilities. One of the most recent additions to our processing capacity, is our high speed, coil-to-coil slitting line, from Red Bud in the USA. This machine will set a new standard for performance and productivity in the Australian coil processing industry.
Our new slitting line boasts a quick and easy set up, and will decrease or even eliminate the amount of camber, usually introduced in the slitting process. This reduction will yield closer tolerances for coils slit on our machine and then processed in secondary operations.
Technical Specs
| Minimum | Maximum | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry Coil Weight | 2,000kgs | 13,600kgs |
| Entry Coil ID | 483mm | 635mm |
| Coil Diameter | N/A | 1905mm |
| Thickness | 0.5mm | 8.0mm |
| Coil Width | 305mm | 2210mm |
| Slit Width | 20mm | 2100mm |
| Exit Coil Weight | 13,600kgs | 13,600kgs |
| Exit Coil ID | 508mm | 508mm |
Accuracy: +/- 0.051mm, Tooling: ASKO Edgemaster shimless tooling,
PE Coating available top and bottom.
Three stages of speed and accuracy
Stage one
Mandrel and automatic coil tracking system
- Mandrel drives the material along the line, to the tension stand
- Automatic coil tracking system compensates when the strip deviates from the centreline by moving in the opposite direction until the coil is centered again
- Material is then sent to the crop shear for initial square edge
Stage two
Slitting head
- Traversing base allows the slitter to “float” with the strip while running. This side to side adjustment is motorised
- System prevents additional camber from being introduced into the slit strips
- Slitter features:
- Fully automatic pass line compensation
- Automatically adjusts to different knife diameters
- Compensates for material thickness
- PE coating ability for both sides
- Scrap choppers cut the edge trim and conveyor
system carries the scrap to bins
Stage three
Tension system, exit crop shear and recoiler
- Automatic tension system assures proper winding tension
- Exit crop shear cuts the coil ahead of recoiler to eliminate the need for rethreading the entire line when breaking down coils
- Mandrel gripper compensates for thickness variations across the width of the strip
- Recoiler tail hold-downs and controls strips, which prevents loose tails at the end of the run
