PRODUCTION FACILITIES PLANT HEDINGEN
A 2‘700-ton forging press and a powerful ring rolling mill, both electronically controlled, are the focus of resourceefficient production today. The latest heat treatment equipment and CNC processing machines complete the company‘s state-of-the-art plant.
sawing equipment
10 Band saws in different sizes, saw diameter up to 1’000 mm
forging furnaces
5 Batch furnaces, gas heated
1 Batch furnace, electrically heated
2 Rotating hearth furnace, gas heated
1 Bogie hearth furnace, gas heated
Equipped with temperature control, calibrated thermocouples
forging facilities
2 Hammers with pile hammer weights 500 + 750 kg
3 Hydraulic forging presses, 1‘200, 1‘600 and 2’700 tons
3 Ring mills up to 3‘500 mm OD and unit weights 5 tons
heat treatment furnaces
4 Electrically heated bogie hearth furnaces (3x 1’000°C, 1x 1’200°C) up to 1’200°C and 2 – 10 tons weight capacity, with fully automatic temperature control and recorder
7 Gaz-heated bogie hearth furnaces (2x 1’180°C, 1x 1’100°C, 4x 1’050°C) and 10 – 30 tons weight capacity, with fully automatic temperature control and recorder
2 Quenching tanks 42 m3 for oil and 52 m3 forwater quenching, equipped with recirculation and cooling system
1 Quenching tank 89 m3, Polymer with recirculation and cooling system
1 Electrically laboratory furnace
testing facilities
Mechanical Tests
1 Tensile test machine
1 Impact test machine*
2 Hardness test machines
*Equipment for low temp. impact tests
NDT Equipment
Ultrasonic testing
Magnetic powder testing
Dey penetrant testing
Visual testing
Laboratory
Macroetch and microetch tests
Corrosion tests
Spectroscopical identity test
Ferrit scope
Dimension control
3D measuring machine
3D electrically measuring arm FARO
machining equipment
1 Conventional lathe with horizontal face plates, max. Ø 2’550 x 1‘700 mm
1 Conventional pivot lathe, max. Ø 1’000 x 3’000 mm
8 CNC lathes with horizontal face plate, max. Ø 3’200 x 1‘200 mm
6 CNC pivot lathes, max. Ø 700 x 6’000 mm
1 Drilling machine, max. Ø 130 x 800 mm
1 CNC horizontal boring machine, 3‘000 x 2‘000 x 1‘400 mm
3 CNC milling machine, 1‘525 x 760 x 625 mm
1 CNC machining center 2‘000 x 810 x 630 mm, with NC-divider
1 Shot blasting equipment