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Materials & Coatings
Preflattener Solves Riddle of Wide, Heavy-Gauge, High-Strength CTL Flatness
rouSouth put the machinery to the test. The results have been exemplary.
Independent toll proces- sor FerrouSouth, Iuka, MS, has commissioned a new three-roll, coil set, cross- bow preflattener at the front end of The Elimina- tor—the company’s heavy- gauge stretcher leveling line. With the preflattener in place, the firm now can process high-strength (110,000-PSI yield) steel up to 1⁄2 by 96 in., providing dead-flat memory-free steel sheets.
“Solving shape and
memory problems in wide,
heavy-gauge, high-grade products has been a struggle for everyone in the busi- ness,” says FerrouSouth president Ed Gonzalez. “The addition of the preflat- tener has eliminated all flatness prob-
lems that have plagued this type of mate- rial all across the United States.”
“Sheets coming off The Eliminator have been dead flat, completely memory free with no coil set, crossbow, wave or cen-
After collaborating with Herr-Voss (Callery, PA) to co-develop, engineer and manufacture the new preflattener, Fer-
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