Workshops fitted out with hoists

The factory’s increase in output is set to be rapid. It is planned that the €12m turnover posted in 2013 will increase to €35m when production is at its peak in approximately three years time.

As the weight of items to be handled is between 20 and 400 kg, handling equipment is indispensable. Powered hoists were built into the project. Preference was given to Verlinde’s Eurosystem ST equipment associated with Eurochain VL electric hoists that are fitted with electrical handheld controls for up/down travel while horizontal travel is achieved by hand. The in-house engineering department designed the roller path bearing structure in compliance with current standards and the installation was inspected and approved by Coface.

• In the burring workshop, at the foundry exit point, a Eurochain VL hoist serves a workstation allowing parts to travel over a distance of 10m.

• The machining workshop, dealing with drilling, tapping or dressing of parts, operates with two automatic, five-spindle machines fed by two hoists of the Eurochain VR new generation.

• Some parts require a paint coating operation. The paint line offer two techniques, one by dip coating, the other by spraying. Two hoists are used for the two workstations.

• At the shot blasting station where metal shot for cleaning parts is shot at the speed of 80m/s, four Verlinde hoists fitted with electromagnets meet all production requirements.

• Lastly, no parts can be cast without moulds and the metal moulding workshop is a vital cog in the product quality process. The workshop’s production capacity is 80 moulds per hour. The Eurochain VR hoist serving this workshop, fitted with an electrical up/down control, ensures aluminium moulding patterns are delivered to the sand casting mould boxes.