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When Steel gets Hard – Shapeline gets to Work
By heating steel to about 800 degrees and rapidly cooling to below 500, austenitic steel is to a large extent transformed to martensitic, thus getting hardened. Retaining the shape of your material when cooling down steel in a Hardening Line is a challenge. The balance of cooling quick enough to form Martensite while eliminating crossbow or waviness on your saw-steel, valve-steel, razor blades or other precision strips requires control. And Shapeline offers this!
With the capability of producing high quality products with well defined shape and hardness being an important competitive factor, it is perhaps not surprising that our customers often choose to keep information about how this is done under close wraps – but with public references like Sandvik Steel, voestalpine BU-Strip, Hugo Vogelsang, Stahlwerk Unna, CD Wälzholz and Paturle Aciers, we can perhaps live with the large number of companies that do not want the world to know that Shapeline is an important part of the product they deliver.
With the Shapeline measurements of the full strip you will be able to optimise the yield of your line. You will be able to detect any problems in your line at the moment it influences the product. You will be able to classify every metre of the product so that you can deliver the right quality grade to the right customer (and get the right price for it!), and you will no longer need to carry out manual measurements on cut-outs or special quality inspection lines - we will do it all for you in-line with real-time accuracy in the single micrometer range.
The products most suitable for hardening lines are Shapeline Compact for narrow strip up to 100 mm, and Shapeline 500 for widths (single or multi-strips) up to 900 mm. Wider measurement areas can be achieved with the Shapeline Flex concept.
For more information about how we can work in your specific environment – please contact us or our representative on your market.
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