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Athader slitting line for Venture Steel in Mexico
Venture Steel has expanded its Ramos just-in-time delivery, even for urgent orders, Arizpe plant in Coahuila, Mexico, doubling and strengthens the company’ s position as its size to 160,000 square feet and a trusted supplier across North America. installing a new slitting line from coilprocessing specialist, Athader. providing quick, dependable service in a
It also supports Venture Steel’ s goal of
“ This is the first time that Venture Steel growing market,” added Athader. has worked with us. The new line has been Athader specialises in the development running for several months with positive of highly automated and digitalised feedback from operators,” Athader told engineering solutions for metal coilprocessing lines. It supplies slitting;
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The Athader line processes coils of up to cut-to-length; levelling; combined slitting 62 inches wide and 0.25 inches thick, with and cut-to-length; and multiblanking lines. tensile strength of 110,000 psi. It operates It also provides coil and sheet packaging at speeds of 600 feet per minute and systems, inspection and recoiling lines, and includes several automation features that special lines. The company is part of the make production faster and more efficient: Bradbury Group, one of the world’ s largest manufacturers of roll forming lines, coilprocessing facilities, flattening systems and
■ Automatic tooling changeover for the slitter head. automated production systems. n
■ Quick-change separators.
■ Automatic over-arm separator www. venturesteel. com changeover.
■ Integrated coil packaging system with automatic strapping. https:// athader. com /
“ These capabilities significantly reduce downtime, improve throughput and deliver tighter tolerances— critical for automotive and other demanding industries. Operators have praised the line for its reliability and ease of use, calling it‘ state-of-the-art’ and noting that it has delivered on all promises,” outlined Athader.
“ By adding this line, Venture Steel ensures greater resilience and flexibility for
Athader’ s engineering team. its customers. The investment supports
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