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Welding Specialist Joins In to Repair 6m Bedplate
01 Nov 2005
The latest collaboration between welding engineering specialist Arc Energy Resources and Intoco, a supplier of high quality components for aluminium extrusion presses, has helped a Midlands tube drawing company maintain production. Intoco, with its wellequipped machine shop, is pretty much self-contained, but when it needs specialist fabrication services it works closely with Arc.
The two Gloucestershire based specialist companies were involved with an urgent repair to the cast iron bedplate of a drawbench used to draw and iron aluminium tube. When the bedplate was damaged the customer was unable to replace it in time to complete an urgent order, so Intoco was called in to repair it.
The unit was made from four 6m lengths and weighed approximately 12 tonnes so Intoco went to the Midlands site, removed the damaged 6m section of bedplate and brought it back to its factory at Staverton.
There, engineers cut out the damaged area and machined new 70mm thick steel plates, from which Arc Energy fabricated a new 2.5m section.
This was then machined and drilled by Intoco and reinstalled for the customer.
Mike Parker of Intoco says downtime in large aluminium processing plant is very expensive, so it was essential to repair the bedplate as quickly as possible, adding that as usual, Arc Energy did an excellent job and turned it round very quickly.
Commenting for Arc Energy, sales director Alan Brown says: "Having originally quoted three weeks to complete the job, we were asked to make a special effort and managed to turn it around in thirteen days by literally working day and night." He adds that more than 300kg of weld metal was deposited during the fabrication process.
www.arcenergy.co.uk
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