History in the making with Red Bud’ s new heavy-gauge cut-to-length / stretcher leveling line

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Copy and images supplied by Sian Clarke and Dean Linders

“ The new Red Bud line is rated for 1-inch( 25.4mm) material at 77 inches( 1 955mm) wide and has an 80 000-pound( 36mt) coil capacity, with a maximum speed of 200 FPM( 60mpm). It can handle high-strength, 72-inch-wide( 1 829mm) coils from 16 gauge( 1.6mm) up to three-fourths of an inch( 19mm) thick at 80 000 psi( 551N / mm 2) yield.”

24 Steel Construction Vol. 40 No. 3 2016