Central Conveyor System

Industry: Energy (Wind)
Application: Turning
Material: Steel
Production: Steel Belt Conveyors, MagSep® Conveyors

Situation
This customer wanted to reduce floor space requirements and fork lift traffic in their new facility. Instead of chip hoppers at each machine, they sought greater automation and cleanliness through a central chip and coolant system for their large lathes.

Solution

• Central belt chip conveyor system with four branch 2-1/2 pitch and two central 4” pitch hinged steel belt conveyors.
• MagSep magnetic drag conveyor with pumps was provided to clean and return coolant.

Key Features

• The outstanding durability and capacity of our chip conveyors
  easily handled the high volumes of turnings.
• The MagSep magnetic drag conveyor cleaned 100 gpm of coolant and handled surges up to 500 gpm.

Customer Benefits

• Reducing the amount of floor space for chip boxes allowed the installation of one additional machine on each line.
• Reduced scrap chips and turnings on the production floor.

Outcome
The system is in operation and similar equipment for a second facility was also purchased and installed.