Steel Technologies de Mexico Purchases Second Red Bud Line

Steel Technologies de Mexico of Guadalupe, NL, Mexico, recently ordered a Red Bud Industries? (Red Bud, IL) Precision Multi-Blanking Line to be installed in their facility in Cuidad Juarez, Chi, Mexico. This line will join the Red Bud Industries? High Speed Slitting Line installed there in 2007. The new line will be capable of processing mild steel up to .135 in (3.43 mm) or stainless up to .105 in (2.7 mm) as presently configured.

Featured in the line will be Red Bud?s Precision Grip Feed System and CNC Programmable Slitter. This combination of machines will give Steel Technologies the capability of producing blanks with width and length tolerances of + .005 in (.127 mm). The CNC Slitter can be set up in less than two minutes per cut thus eliminating costly downtime that can occur when using conventional packed arbor Slitters.

An additional advantage to the system will be the Automatic Strip Divider Positioning. While the operator is setting up the Slitting Head, the Strip Divider Positioning System will automatically set up the dividers in the Strip Stacker. When the operator has finished setting up the Slitting Head, the Strip Stacker will be ready to run blanks. Also featured in the line will be a 6 Hi Machine Concepts? Cartridge Leveler with Auto Flat System which automatically adjusts the Leveler. The system automatically adjusts to the material in order to achieve flat strip even if the shape of the coil changes as it is being run.

The new line will be capable of processing coils up to 60,000 lbs (27,216 kg) at widths up to 72 in (1829 mm) and thicknesses up to .135 in (3.43 mm). The new line will consist of a four-camera monitoring system, coil stage and load system, uncoiler, peeler breaker, crop shear, cartridge leveler, pop-up flatness inspection table, hands-free thread system, dual-motor heavy-gage grip feed, CNC programmable slitter, scrap winders, shear, combination drop/strip stacker, part diverter, part sorter, automatically lowering stack table, end discharge rollouts and measuring table.

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