Steel Manufacture
The Metal Industry in South Africa
The metal industry in South Africa is a high
quality industry. The fluctuations in the supply and demand of the
metal industry are indicative of the infrastructure development in
South Africa.
Metal products in the South African
marketplace:
- Stainless Steel flat rolled products
- Mild Steel both section and flat rolled
products
- Aluminium flat rolled products
Emerson in the Metal Processing Industry
Control Techniques South Africa, a division of
EMERSON Industrial Automation, provides many solutions and products
for the Metal industry within South Africa. Two of our largest
customers include Highveld Steel and Columbus Stainless.
Control Techniques can offer
competitively-priced products and complete design solutions that
are well-suited for the applications in which they are used. The
Control Techniques variable speed drives are robust and reliable
and are suited to withstand the harsh environment of the metal
industry which contains both a ferrous and gaseous atmosphere from
the steel manufacturing processes.
Applications
Control Techniques are able to offer a wide
range of solutions to their customers in the metal industry. They
have supplied both individual drive and complex system solutions
for fully-automated processes. Some of the solutions that have been
installed in the metal industry are:
- Tension control utilising the AC regenerative
package on Bridles and Roller tables
- Ladle tilting controls for BOF steel
making.
- Strander controls for continuous casting
- Kiln drive controls for the iron-making
process
- Crane controls for all axes
- Steel process and finishing lines from uncoil
to recoil
- Shaking ladle controls for separating iron
from vanadium
- Steel transfer cars
- Helper rolls on strip processing lines
Product Solutions
Control Techniques offers a complete range of
variable speed drives solutions for both AC and DC applications in
the metal processing industry and have successfully converted many
old machines from DC to AC.
AC Drives - Unidrive SP, Commander SK
DC Drives - Mentor II, New Mentor MP