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The Eco Slide Disc system is significantly reducing maintenance costs in the down coiler area of hot strip mills |
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No wear plate replacement during production |
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Improved strip guidance and elimination of strip surface defects caused by the down coiler entry guides |
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Up to 75 percent cost savings for operational wear parts |
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Very short payback time |
With the newly developed Eco Slide Disc Solution, Siemens Metals Technologies offers operators of hot strip mills a side guide system which can be adapted to nearly all existing entry guides and elongates the lifetime of wear parts up to 10 times compared to conventional wear plates. The core of the solution consists of wearing discs which are integrated into the entry side guides. After the wear limit has been reached, the discs can be simultaneously round up to eight times, every time offering a new sliding surface. Furthermore, the discs can be turned over to their back face to be used on both sides. This optimizes strip guidance eliminates personnel-intensive replacement processes in the safety zone and reduces the costs of operational wear parts by up to 75 percent. The system can pay for itself within one to two years. The Eco Slide Discs are successfully in continuous use at voestalpine Stahl GmbH in Linz, Austria, since August 2014.
