TPT July 2022

T E CHNOLOG Y

DieTronic celebrates success of its antirust systems at Tube 2022 in Germany

DieTronic range of products in a tube mill line

potentially damaging roll tooling in the process. The next essential unit was the tube cleaner system, which allows a deep pre-cleaning of very dirty tubes (especially for the automotive industry), thus improving once more the quality of the produced tubes. After that, the proper anti-rust spray system comes into play: the system is provided with a pneumatic air knife that, placed at its entrance, is designed to blow compressed air directly on to the tube and prepares a perfectly dry and clean surface, thus optimising the later anti-corrosive spray application. A DieTronic spokesperson added: “An innovation particularly appreciated by our visitors at the fair was the new Siemens control panel. Its innovative features including the latest industry 4.0 manufacturing trend such as easier parameter settings, layered-password protection (operator/technician/ DieTronic), alarm monitoring and historical trending. The new system also records total oil consumption with real time monitoring.”

can be applied precisely and in the recommended dosages. “Our technology brings not only a considerable saving on the economic side, which is obviously important (as the reduction of wastes as well of oil used mean less costs), but also a prominent impact on the environmental side. “A reduced use of RPO can definitely be beneficial also for the working environment in tube manufacturing plants, which results in a cleaner and safer place for the operators working on the machinery,” a spokesperson said. At Tube in Düsseldorf in 2022, DieTronic presented some of the latest technology it has developed: the first device proposed and the newest addition to DieTronic tube product line was the coil cleaning system that, placed before the tube forming section, improves the surface quality of the end product, by cleaning the strip surface before the forming section, thanks to the use of a lower roller with rotating brushes. In this way, it is possible to eliminate marks and dirt particles that, particularly during forming, might otherwise remain imprinted on the tube surface, also

DIETRONIC, a manufacturer of spray lubrication systems for several metal forming applications, has designed a solution for the tube and pipe field, which is used to fight the issue of oxidation. This is a problem that is particularly common under certain weather conditions, such as humidity and temperature fluctuations and especially during long periods of storage or transportation. For tube producers, the risk of product being rejected at the end customer can be costly and cause damage to their reputation as a supplier. The DieTronic antirust product range covers different types of tube shapes (round, square, rectangular and special profiles) and dimensions, to make the system suitable for any need and its devices are able to spray the right amount of Rust Prevention Oil (RPO) in a controlled, constant and homogenous way, covering the whole tube surface and adjusting the RPO quantity to apply in g/m 2 automatically and proportionally to the line speed. An effective and optimised application quality means not only a full product protection against rusting, but also a consistent saving of RPO, which

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T&H Lemont ships motorised seam orientation stand

at a specified location on the circumference, usually top dead centre, to align the weld seam with inductors used for inline

T&H LEMONT has shipped a new motorised seam orientation stand (SOS), model 280/6, which is designed to work on tube in diameters from 0.750 to 3.500" and wall thicknesses from 0.028 to 0.250". SOS units compensate for any drift in the weld seam location. Using two vertical rolls that are adjusted by the operator, the SOS aligns the seam

SOS aligns the seam at a specified location on the circumference to align the weld seam with inductors

T&H Lemont manufactures SOS units that handle tube from 0.750 to 14" in diameter.

annealing and sensors used for non destructive testing. It also assists in maintaining the tube’s straightness and in complying with any customer requests for a specific seam location.

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