Steel & Aluminum Processing Industry
Heavy-Duty Solutions for Harsh-Duty Environment
Dynatect has decades of experience providing rugged solutions designed for extreme industrial environments like hot and cold strip mills. Examples where Dynatect products have been used in steel processing include:
- Roughing Stands and Finishing Mills… walk on pit covers
- Coil Transfer Cars… walk on pit covers and metal cable carriers
- Roll Grinders… telescopic metal covers, durable fabric way covers, cable carrier, and ball screws
- Scalpers… walk on pit covers, telescopic metal covers
- Vertical Edgers… round spline cover bellows
- Hot Rolled Mills and Plate Mills… cable carriers
- And Many More!
Examples
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Coil Car Safety Pit Cover
Dynatect provided a Steelflex® walk-on duty roll-up cover for a coil car that operates in a 22"x270" pit. Coil cars are industrial vehicles that move heavy metal coils and can be in pits, posing fall or trip hazards. Safety measures are essential in metal processing plants to reduce risks linked to open pits.
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Ball Screws & Ball Screw Covers for Swaging Operations
This heavy-duty gripper holds metal bars going through a reduction process supplying rotation for even heating and feeding. This includes ball screws for precise motion, covered by aluminized Kevlar bellows for protection from heat and debris, and the cables are managed with a metal cable carrier. Photo is courtesy of MCI – Machine Concepts Inc.
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Aluminum Mill Safety Pit Cover
This aluminum mill has a 26-foot-long by 40-inch-wide floor opening, which poses a fall hazard if not covered. As the casting car moves in either direction, a Steelflex roll-up cover allows the area to remain covered.
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Aluminum Scalper Way Protection
Dynatect supplied a set of steel telescopic covers for an aluminum scalper machine, each having the capability to extend up to approximately 47 feet of travel. Scalping machines play a crucial role in removing surface impurities from aluminum ingots by shaving the surface to attain uniformity. Each way cover features dimensions approximately 8 feet in width and stands over 20 inches tall at its largest section. Dynatect excels in creating specially engineered solutions to tackle projects that are previously uncharted or particularly challenging.
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Coil Cart Lift Cover
These coil carts feature an adjustable vertical lift table for matching the pass line height, high precision straighteners, and other applications. The lift tables are protected by Dynatect’s Liftgard® to improve operator safety around pinch points and keep out process driven hazards. Photos are courtesy of MCI – Machine Concepts Inc.
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Coil Processing Pit Cover
A steel pipe supplier required a pit cover in their coil processing operation. They didn’t have enough room on the bottom to mount the canister, so Dynatect designed the cover to ride down the wall vertically and then take a 90 degree turn. Dynatect's Steelflex cover allows the machine pit to remain covered and protected.
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Replace Floor Plates with Roll-Ups
Do you have large open pits or exposed machine ways? Railing guards may get in the way, and floor grates may be inconvenient or difficult to move and create trip hazards. With a roll-up design that’s easily opened and closed, operators need not struggle with manually lifting and adjusting panels. Walk-on roll-up covers create a continuous, protective, and walkable surface that makes maintenance easy. A roll-up, walk-on duty Steelflex® cover can cover a wide span and long distance, rolled up using an air-motor or into a scroll.
Planer Mill Pit Cover Application
Large machine tools such as planer mills often are installed partially below floor level, resulting in potentially hazardous pits. Workers must remove pit grates or slats to service the machine. Here, metal roll-up, walk-on covers offer an alternative. Typically made of reinforced stainless steel, these covers allow partial pit access while preventing falls at other times or into other pit areas.
Case in point: One aircraft manufacturer uses large fiber placement machines to build fuselages from composites. Adjustable tailstocks of the two-station machine travel on guideways located in a pit below floor level. Production workers must access workpieces as they’re produced, necessitating pit covers during production, yet also requiring a way to remove the covers for repairs and adjustments. Grating is time-consuming to move, and slats require complex support structures that complicate maintenance tasks. Instead, the aircraft manufacturer uses rugged walk-on metal pit covers with extruded aluminum stiffening ribs bonded to stainless steel sheets; there are no hinges to collect debris. These roll up onto steel rollers equipped with take-up mechanisms.
Featured Products
Steelflex Walk-On Pit Covers
Unprotected openings create a fall hazard for workers. A load-bearing roll-up cover provides a walkable surface that co-operates with machine movement. Steelflex® Pit Covers covers not only protect machine ways and actuators from chip loads and dropped tools, but provide a robust walk-on surface that rides flush with ground level. The cover provides easy machine access during maintenance and tool change periods.
Ball Screw Replacement & Reconditioning
Dynatect offers full service repair and refurbishment for ball screws, lead screws, and acme screws. Additionally, Dynatect can reverse engineer, replace, and manufacture new precision ground ball screws. Dynatect can make and repair the most extreme ball screws including units 67 feet long and 6 inches in diameter.
Ball Screw Protection
Telescopic way covers are the preferred way of protecting ball screws and machine ways from costly damage that can stall production. Dynatect can manufacture a replacement cover to stock on hand, so that while the original cover is refurbished to like-new by Dynatect, the extra cover can be installed to minimize downtime.
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