Accurate weight hammers
General information
Name of center
SSAB
Description of the case
Old Hammers:
-Casted - 2” thick – imported from China
-Problems: Long lead time, need of balancing, uneven performance from batch to batch
New Hammers:
- Hardox® 500 – 2” thick, ox fuel cut, design was optimize to have material on the areas of most wear and reduced the body width in other to keep the same weight.
- Service life is 30 - 50% better
- No need of balancing anymore (this is a thing the customer appreciated)
- Consistence performance ( now when some premature wear is detected it is an indication that the aluminum scrap is coming with excessive dirty (sand).
End customer
Industry
Recycling
Raw material processed
Aluminum scrap
Wear part
Temperature
0 – 250 °C / 32 – 480 °F
Processed material size
10 – 300 mm / 0.4 – 12.0 "
Solution
New solution
Hardox® 500
Thickness
51 mm
Old solution
Old solution
Mn casting
Thickness in old solution
51 mm
Key success factors
Other
Improved service life by 30-50 % and much more accurate shaft balancing. No need for balancing at every hammer replacement.
