Once again PROFILGLASS trusts Salico engineering and construction capacity assigning order for supplying no. 2 Blanking Lines for production of disk-shape-parts wanted for making pots and lids.

The two Lines, sharing same pass-line and lay-out design, will perform blanking of Aluminium strips by unwinding coils ranging different material thickness as 0,5 to 4,0 mm and 0,5 to 6,0 mm in respective Lines.

A Floor-level travelling Coil Car carries the Aluminium coil in centre-line-axis of the Line between Opposite Mandrels designed to collect the coil by clamping it via expanding the Mandrels in coil bore which can feature different diameters like 508 and 610 mm.

Aluminium coils presented at the entry of the line are featured with or without inner spools typically depending upon the material thickness.

The Line, downstream to decoiling of coil by Opposite Mandrels, is provided with a 6-high Levelling Machine featuring 13 Working Rolls of diameter 70 mm.

After levelling, the strip features like a shallow catenary up to reach the Feeder of the line.

The whole portion of the Line from Decoiler to Feeder moves zigzagging from centre-line-axis to feed the strip to the Blanking Press according to the disk pattern to produce.

Disk pattern possible to produce is just circular in a large range of diameters like 120 to 630 mm; a dedicated software manages zigzag moving the entry portion of the Line to optimize blanking of the strip with minimum residual scrap.

Maximum blanking pace is 80 disks per minute.

Blanking Press is of mechanical swinging glyph type operated via flywheel with clutch – brake; die change is performed full-Auto.

Blanked disks are conveyed via motorized belt to Stacker; before entering Stacker fine levelling of single disks is possible by Levelling Machine featuring 13 Working Rolls of diameter 40 mm.

Non-stop stacking is performed via two Stacking Stations stacking alternatively.

Strip scrap residual coming from blanking is fed to a Crop Shear at exit Blanking Press for cropping.

A lifting gripper removes the stacks of disks from Stacking Stations and move them to 1100 by 1100 mm size wooden pallet where from minimum two to forty-nine stacks can be located.

Disks Blanking Line for PROFILGLASS minded to blank Aluminium does not represent limits to blank Copper and Stainless-steel.

It is a great pleasure for Salico to announce the incorporation of the new company Salico Metal Solutions Pvt. Ltd located in Kolkata, India.

The new venture is born with the spirit of servicing our customers in India and for this task Salico Metal has a team of talented engineers highly trained and with a broad experience in our field of business.

With the incorporation of the company, Salico strengthens its high compromise with the Indian market, recognizing its important role in the world metals industry.

You can find us in 2nd Floor, Block EP-Y6, Salt Lake Electronics Complex, Sector V, Kolkata 700 091. Tel no.: +91-33-46044851. Email: abhrajit.chatterjee@salico.net

 

SALICO, together with partner SES, took part in Aluminum USA exhibition (Sept 1st and 2nd) overcoming difficulties presented by the pandemic and trying to remain in close contact with US customers , who were grateful to see SALICO present.

Once again our long time customer Gränges Konin from Poland has placed their confidence on us, this time placing an order for the supply of a new State of the Art Slitting line. Along the years this will be the fourth line delivered by us to this top class Aluminium Rolling Plant with previous references of Cut to Length, Tension Leveling and cleaning lines currently in operation at this Plant.

The new Slitting Line will cut aluminium strip of 1.800 mm entry width into multiple narrow slits down to 16 mm in width and maximum 76 slits running at 500 m/min for the thinner gauges and 250 m/min for the thicker ones. Strip thickness up to 5 mm and all the alloys in all the different temper conditions.

The line will feature the most advanced systems in high precision aluminium slitting, like the entry high speed scrapping station, automatic measuring system for the slits width, CNC auto adjustment of the separator discs, Salico tension bridle specifically designed for very high sensitive surfaces of the slits, etc. Located at the exit side of the line, a Hot Melt applicator will apply a dry lub on both strip surfaces.

The supply is completed with a highly automated Packaging line, able to pack the slit coils in “eye to sky” or “eye to the side” condition. Automatic strapping stations, down-ending device for the individual narrow slits or down-ender for the wider coils, robotized applicator of wooden spacers, plastic wrapping, vacuum handling, etc complete the line.

The line is scheduled to start production during the first quarter of 2023.

From left to right: Pawel Rutecki (Development & Investment Director Gränges Konin) and Piotr Szeliga (CEO Gränges Konin); José M. Gerbolés (CEO Salico Group) and Juan L. Gerbolés (CFO Salico Hispania).

SALICO moved another step forward in continuing renewal of its Machine Tool Park with a new 5 axis Machining Center FAGIMA model KREOS 270 featuring main axis X stroke 2700 mm, both Y and Z axis stroke 800 mm, while 4^th and 5^th axis are respectively the tilting head ± 120° and 360° complete rotation of platform.

Renewal is not the only aim of SALICO as purchase of new Machining Center has been driven by the need to respond the increasing market demand, just for instance but not limited to, of quality Roller Levelling Cassettes in the impressive range of dimensions and performances proper of the Salico design: everything is made within SALICO as a single quality guaranteed sourcing point.

With the new FAGIMA Machining Center, SALICO confirms its vision and commitment of being active part in the industry 4.0 process aimed to increase the productivity and production quality of its manufacturing.

Like other previously made similar investments, the new Machining Center will allows SALICO to achieve objectives like:

• Greater flexibility
• Higher speed
• Increased productivity
• Better quality and less waste
• Increase in competitiveness
• CNC and / or PLC control systems;
• Interconnection to the company network with remote upload of instructions and software;
• Automated integration with the factory logistic system or with the supply network and / or with other machines in the production cycle;
• Implementation of ad hoc software for instrument management and traceability.

Jacob Bek GmbH in Ulm, Germany, a long-established company with 190 years history being nowadays part of thyssenkrupp Materials Services, has awarded Salico ordering for a high technological Multiblanking Line.

The Line is designed to mainly process galvanized and pre-painted steel along with other high end quality steels which, as a common feature, present extreme delicate surfaces typical to serve manufacturing of household application products ranking top level brands.

Coming to specific technical data, the Line will process steel strip 1650 mm wide; to perform Levelling in the extensive thickness range from 0,9 – 5,0 mm (Ed. in the maximum extent of thickness, material is hot rolled pickled steel), the Levelling Machine is equipped with three different so-called Roller Levelling Cassettes each one featuring peculiar Working Rollers diameters and relative pitches dedicated to perform levelling of steel strip within of properly assigned thickness ranges; Cassette changeover is full auto.

Coils weight presented at entry of the Line is 30 tons. Magnetic Stacker perform nonstop stacking (Ed. the Line runs nonstop the entire coil) for sheet length up to maximum 3000 mm; stacking with stopping the Line is for sheet length over 3000 mm up maximum 6000 mm. Sheet stacking is possible either “naked” or with pallet.

The Line is rather complete featuring, just to mention a few functions yet not limited to, Pinch Rolls specially designed to ease functional maintenance, Strip Inspection Area of both upper and lower strip surfaces, and more importantly as core of the process, a CNC Slitting Shear to carry out strip edge trimming along with necessary multiple slitting. Edge trimming is completed with Scrap Chopper for the best handling of the scrap edges trimmed from the strip.

As said beforehand, the Stacker is of Magnetic type, capable to receive at speed, stop and drop either single or multiple sheets (Ed. this representing the “zero inertia stacking principle” introduced to the market by Salico back in year 1990) cut to precise length with Salico Rotary Shear: first made in 1986, the Salico Rotary Shear is still representing unbeatable about performances and references among the over 250 Rotary Shears delivered to customers. The Stacker is complete with Auto Pallet Magazine and Pallet Loader on Stacking Platforms. The logistic downstream to Stacker is complete with siding Roller / Chain Conveyors to align multiple sheet packs changing from one pack sided to the other to one pack in line with subsequent one.

The design of the Multiblanking Line unique by Salico in comparison to what offered by other OEMs, has allowed to lay out the Line within the limited length of 40 m with great benefit of limiting the foundation works. Also, in dialogue with the customer, the Line is designed to accept further developments to respond the needs of the future.

Salico is thankful for the trust Jacob Bek posed in our firm as well as we are delighted of the excellent cooperation we have established with them since the early beginning of managing this project.

The Line is due to be put in production April 2022.

During the first quarter of year 2021 we have commissioned the Recoiling and Leveling Line for aluminium coils at the company VIG METAL, a young and very fast growing Aluminium Rolling Plant located in Kutahya, Turkey.

The company specializes in rolling and processing aluminium products for a wide range of sectors like construction, automotive, household goods, stockholders, etc.

The new line is conceived for the Side Trimming, Levelling, Inspection and recoiling of aluminium coils of 1.650 mm in width and a thickness range from 0.3 up to 3.0 mm at a speed of 200 m/min.

The line features the side trimming section with the side trimmer with fully automatic adjustments, a high efficiency scrap chopper and the levelling section with a heavy duty leveler featuring fast extraction of the cassette of rolls.

The erection and commissioning works took place during the months of pandemic and thanks to the big involvement and compromise of the project teams from both Vig Metal and Salico, the line entered in production as per the original project schedule without any delay caused by the pandemic.

From here we want to convey our thanks to VIG METAL for having selected us for the development of this very interesting project.

During the last quarter of year 2020 we have commissioned the Tension Leveling Line for aluminium coils at the company IBERFOIL, a part of the Spanish group ALIBERICO and former Alcoa Sabiñanigo Plant in Northern Spain.

The company specializes in rolling and processing high quality aluminium products for a wide range of sectors like pharmaceutical, packaging, construction, automotive, fin stock, etc.

The Tension Leveling Line processes aluminium coils of 1.650 mm in width and a thickness range from 0.2 up to 1.6 mm.

The line features a heavy duty tension leveler that operates with a maximum strip tension generated by the bridles of 30 tons. A double elongation section is followed by a double decurving section with all the clusters of rolls mounted on extractable cassettes to the sides of the machine for easy and ergonomic cleaning and maintenance tasks.

The line has a void space for the future integration of an alkaline degreasing section that will be supplied in the second stage of the project.

The erection and commissioning works took place during the months of pandemic and thanks to the big involvement and compromise of the project teams from both Iberfoil and Salico, the line entered in production as per the original project time schedule without any delay caused by the pandemic.

From here we want to convey our thanks to IBERFOIL for having selected us for the supply of this very interesting finishing line and for the very positive and cooperative attitude maintained all along the project.

FRANCHINI LAMIERE, a company long-established as one of the most important Coil service center in Italy specialized in processing heavy gauge plate of high-grade steel, trust Salico technology by ordering our company a new Slitting Line to process steel coil 2.200 mm wide, capable to perform multiple slitting in the thickness range 1,5 to 8,0 mm and edge trimming up to 12,0 mm.

The new Slitting Line for FRANCHINI LAMIERE is beneficial of the over 40 years of experience of Salico in this field along with the latest design and features that Salico keeps always updated.

As a basic concept, the Line is designed to guarantee an uninterrupted production throughput with minimal intervention of Line operators who keep control of the functions of the Line comfortably from the Control Desks conveniently laid out.

Herein is a recap of the Slitting Line characteristics worth mentioning:

• The Coil Rotating Storage at the Entry of the Line both guarantees an efficient selection of the coil to feed into the Line and retrieve of coils not complete processed from the Line.
• The design “by steps” of the Opposite Mandrels of the Uncoiler fit three different coil inner diameters like 508, 610 and 760 mm.
• Coil Loading on Uncoiler is via Automatic Coil Centering along X and Y axis.
• During the uncoiling the Anti Coil Break Roll is kept in contact with the strip in avoidance the arise of cracks in the strip while the coil is being unwound.
• A Straightening Machine at entry section of the Line provides for strip is fed adequately flat into the Line during beginning of uncoiling of the coil then spins idle when the Line is in slitting run mode.
• The Slitting Shear features Slitting Tooling Auto Locking along with Auto Slitting Tooling Changeover carried out in a bunch of minutes, all this of Salico design and construction.
• Robotic Slitting Tooling Setup complementary to Slitting Shear makes this area is Complete Automatic for extreme ease and efficient operation.
• The Scrap Chopper is the indispensable machine to enable the easy management of the scrap edges trimmed from the strip; ease and safety in maintaining, efficiency and reliability, these are major points paid attention by Salico in designing this machine.

“Green technology has never been greener like with Salico Tensioning Bridle” abiding this motto Salico Tensioning Bridle is designed to perform tight and uniform winding of slit coils with one hundred percent recovering of the energy spent in recoiling and no use of felt to generate the necessary tension in the slit stripes for the proper recoiling of slit coils.

Downstream to recoiling of slit coils, an “L” shape offloading Coil Car with so called Hold-down Arm provided with “Piano Fingers” secure transfer the slit coils to an Exit Coil Turnstile implemented by an Automatic Circumferential Strapping Machine.

Salico is thankful to FRANCHINI LAMIERE for having pose its trust in its brand and guarantee full endeavour for achieving the wanted goals in this important project.

MARCEGAGLIA, one of the leading industrial group worldwide in the steel processing sector, has entrusted Salico with its innovation project which ranges among new Lines and Equipment as well as Revamping of some existing ones.

Minded to industry 4.0 as a common denominator, every individual project is characterized by a high degree of Automatization aimed to improve Efficiency, Production Capacity and, very important, improve safe and ease of working for the operators setting them free from grievous operations thanks to the support provided by dedicated robots.

The projects are worth singular mentioning of their main characteristics:

Slitting Line I

Designed to process cold and hot mill rolled carbon Steel strip in width 1560 mm and thickness range 0,5 – 5,0 mm; the Line, meant to feed welded pipeline (Ed. this not within scope of supply), features:

1. Robotic Slitting Tooling Setup with Auto Cleaning of Slitting Tooling all engineered and manufactured by Salico; the system is completed with Auto Slitting Tooling Changeover.
2. Robotized Setup of Separator Disks Arbours.
3. Scrap Chopper for an efficient management of the trimmed scrap edges from the strip.
4. Double Loop downstream Slitting Shear allows slitting of coils of maximum dimensions without the need of a too profound pit, this providing savings in foundation construction.
5. Salico Tensioning Bridle allows to perform a tight uniform winding of the slit coils, extreme care about the slits surface quality, one-hundred-percent energy recovering and no use of felt like it is common in other slitting lines by other equipment suppliers.
6. Auto Circumferential Strapping of slit coils off the line.
7. Rather particular is the possibility to carry out Auto Radial Strapping of a batch of slit coils when these are eye-to-wall position on arms of a Coil Storage Turnstile dedicated to this function.

Thanks to the above features the Slitting Line is designed performing 180’000-year tonne production capacity.

Salico Tensioning Bridle in Slitting Line

Slitting Line II

Designed to process cold and hot mill rolled carbon Steel strip in width 1560 mm and thickness range 0,3 – 5,0 mm; the Line, designated to a Coil Service Center, features same characteristics 1) to 5) of the Slitting Line described above, performing same 180’000-year tonne production capacity, and is further complete with Slit Coil Packaging Line of the following characteristics:

1. Coil Storage Turnstile at exit of Slitting Line is doubled at entry of Slit Coil Packaging Line.
2. In addition to serve packaging of slit coils coming from new Slitting Line, a bay-to-bay coil transport bogie feeds Coil Storage Turnstile of Packaging Line with slit coils sourced from another existing slitting line.

All the following functions are carried out automatically:

• • After slit coils are singularly down-ended eye-to-wall / eye-to-sky from Coil Storage Turnstile are strapped radially by a double-heads Strapping Machine.
  • Still singularly, slit coils are then Radially Wrapped for maximum protection.
  • Wooden sticks separators to keep slit coils separated in stacking are placed in position by means of a robot.
  • Stacking of slit coils on pallet is carried out on 60 coils-per-hour pace among five stacking stations which are auto-infeed with the necessary pallet.
  • Stack of slit coils is strapped together with pallet; after placing on top of stack a plastic foil cover, the stack is wrapped in height by plastic film including pallet.
  • Labelling is to complete the packaging.

3. A Down-ender has function to serve stack of slit coils eye-to-wall in case of need.

Revamping of Cut To Length Line

Designed to process Stainless Steel strip in width 2100 mm and thickness range 1,5 – 13,0 mm, includes:

1. Relocation of existing Heavy Gauge Levelling Machine, which cover material levelling up to 13 mm thick.
2. New Edge Trimming Section complete with Scrap Chopper for an efficient management of trimmed scrap edges from the strip.
3. New Levelling Machine designed for an efficient material levelling in the thinner gauge up to 6 mm (2B material is presented to the Line up to 4 mm thick); the Machine features two different cassettes each one dedicated respectively to levelling the cold and hot mill rolled Stainless Steel by benefitting the Cassette Change is full-Auto.
4. Revamping of the existing Stacker is focused to perform non-Stop Stacking for sheet length up to 4000 mm while maximum sheet length is 12000 mm.
5. Auto Pallet Infeed to the Stacker is minded improving the Line uptime thus to increase the production capacity.
6. Stacking Tables under Stacker made to handle stainless-steel sheet stacks on pallet, up to 6000 mm long, or “naked” stacks (Ed. without pallet) over 6000 mm up to the maximum 12000 mm.
7. A compact yet efficiently Automated Packaging Area of the below features complete the Line downstream the Stacker:

• • Auto Placing of Coverage on stainless steel sheet stacks.
  • Double Transverse Strapping Machine for strapping of stainless-steel sheet stacks on pallet, up to 6000 mm long, or “naked” stacks over 6000 mm up to the maximum 12000 mm with Auto-insertion of wooden beams underneath the stacks.
  • Sheet stacks are possible to overlay one over the other by a design-to-purpose dedicated lifting device.
  • Packaging Area providing additional buffering of the produced stacks is also handling second choice production.

Mandrel of Flange design

Interchangeable Flanged Mandrels

For Pickling Line designed to process carbon Steel strip featuring width 1650 mm in the thickness range 1,0 – 6,0 mm; the existing Recoiler in the Pickling Line will be provided with two new tailor-made flange-design Mandrels which allow quick semi-Auto Change of the two Mandrels featuring different diameters as 508 mm and 610 mm.

 

We truly appreciate MARCEGAGLIA for counting on SALICO for their Innovation Proyect!