The advanced design of Fagor's rotating shears allows a slitting, cut-to-length and banding line to operate at up to 140 blanks/min.

A large Australian Service Centre group has chosen Fagor Arrasate to supply its new cutting lines. The group in question is Smorgon Steel. The new project, amounting to EUR 4 million, includes a slitting line, a cut-to-length line and a banding line.

Victor Esteban represented Fagor in the signing ceremony.

The cut-to-length line will process 1525mm wide and 3.2mm thick coils at a speed of 140 blanks/min.

This high production rate is obtained by the advanced design of Fagor's rotating shears, with big advantages in productivity, precision and reduced investment, as the occupied space is much less and foundation costs are reduced to the maximum as no pit is needed.

In addition, the line has equipment for processing delicate coated steels and includes a high precision leveller for steels with a high elastic limit.

The slitting line, on its part, will process coils weighing 15 tonnes with thicknesses of up to 4mm and at a speed of 250m/min.

It includes a quick tool changing system in the circular shear that allows for starting a new cutting programme in only 4 min.

This is a big advantage, as the bottleneck in a slitting line is the low availability due to downtime.

With Fagor's new systems, this problem has been solved and users achieve an extremely high return for their money.

In 2006, Fagor Arrasate has become the undisputed world leader in the cutting line sector for the iron and steel industry and service centres, with almost fifty lines supplied over the year.