TPT July 2016

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AHC’s plant in China DUTCH industrial company Aalberts Industries has operated a plant for surface treatment of components near Shanghai, China, for around two years, under the name Hangzhou AHC Surface Treatment Technology Co Ltd. Since early 2016 this plant has been officially integrated into the AHC Group, which is itself part of Aalberts Industries NV. TheAHC Group, with its headquarters in Germany, focuses on providing technically functional coatings of surfaces. AHC Hangzhou can draw on over 50 years of coating experience within the AHC Group. The AHC group finishes around one billion components annually for thousands of customers in all key industries. Overall, more than 40 processes and more than 100 process variations are used in more than 20 plants for close proximity to customers. At the Hangzhou plant the concept of sustainable environmental protection and energy efficiency meets stringent Chinese requirements. Reproducible and robust processes are necessary in order to be able to control the high differentiation of finishing of customer components. For this reasonAHC’s process experience was used in the design of the coating systems and the wastewater technology. AHCsuppliessurfacecoatings formechanical engineering, and for large system suppliers to the automotive industry. Fuel pump casings, impellers for turbochargers and control pistons for automatic transmissions all made from aluminium alloys are protected against wear and corrosion. The team at AHC Hangzhou provides different processes of anodisation and hard anodisation as well as electroless nickel plating of aluminium components. In addition, non- ferrous metals and ferrous materials, including stainless steels, are treated with diverse electroless nickel processes. Components of up to 1,000kg and with dimensions up to 3,000mm length x 600mm width x 1,200mm height are treated in the anodising line. Processes are hard anodising Hart-Coat ® , Hart-Coat GLATT (HC-GL), and technical anodising, in each case with the possibility of black colouring and repressing.

MANUFACTURING REQUIREMENTS VARY – SO DO OPTIMUM SOLUTIONS

T-DRILL’s machines are used in wide varietyoftubeandpipefabricationinthe field of automotive, HVAC, shipbuilding and stainless steel equipment within the food & dairy, pharmaceutical and water treatment industries.

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Hangzhou AHC Surface Treatment Technology Co, Ltd – China Website: www.ahc-china.com

AHC Oberflächentechnik GmbH – Germany Website: www.ahc-surface.com

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