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A bright future
There is no end in sight for the ZSK success story.
The developers at Coperion already have their sights
set on the machines of tomorrow – with an even
wider spectrum of applications for new tasks in a
vast range of industrial sectors. Energy efficiency,
the conservation of resources and the integration
of ZSK high-performance extruders into companies’
digital environments are the current hot topics that
are shaping the future of the ZSK. Frank Lechner,
Head of Process Technology at Coperion, states:
“Current examples of our innovative strength are
the changeover from batch processes to continuous
processes, which are increasingly in demand by
customers in the chemical and pharmaceutical
industries in particular. We have already been
able to achieve impressive results with our ZSK
extruders when producing products such as sealants
or cleaning agents. In many processes, we are
A modern, high-performance extruder from the
ZSK Mc18 series with a specific torque of 18
Nm/cm³ and a Do/Di ratio of 1.55 for preparing
products with high torque requirements,
such as engineering plastics.
also able to increase the throughput rates and the
product quality many times over with our latest
development, the recently introduced involute screw
elements, thus contributing to more efficient use of
the systems and resources. We are also equipped for
the future requirements of the ‘Circular Economy’ as
far as both extruder technology and our decades of
processing know-how are concerned.”
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Remote Monitoring of Weld Purge up to 1 km Away
When welding lengths of tube and pipework fabrications, as well
as sections of pipelines of 20 metres length and more, one problem
operators face is not receiving a fast and true weld purge reading from
the purge zone.
Now, for the first time, Huntingdon Fusion
Techniques HFT® makes it possible to have an
immediate reading of the weld purge gas at the
underside of the joint, from any distance up to
1,000 metres away with their PurgEye® 1000
Weld Purge Monitor®.
Luke Keane, Distributor Support for HFT® said: “By
using a remote sensing head, which can be fitted onto
any Mechanical or Inflatable Tube and Pipe Weld
Purging System from 1” (25 mm) diameter upwards,
the oxygen level can be measured directly at the weld
location and the information will be electronically
transferred to the monitor up to 1 km away. With
this capability, the operator can be certain that the
weld purge reading is correct and that the joint will
not be adversely affected by oxidation.”
14 TUBE NEWS October 2017