SPECIAL
BRAND-NEW
Flexible High-Performance Coating Plant for Aluminium Wheels
S
uperAlloy Manufaktur GmbH
is automatically adapted to suit the
wheels from the pre-treatment line and
in Lossburg has put one of the
downstream process. Pre-heating
supplies them directly to the individual
most flexible coating plants in the
temperatures and cooling sections are
coating areas. The plant concept still
wheel industry into operation (Fig. 1).
also individually adaptable. Thanks to the
has further potential for future coating
The wheel-coating plant makes a
high level of automation, SuperAlloy can
variants, coating patterns and special
large number of coating processes
track the wheels precisely and thus carry
coatings.
possible and is thus equipped not only
out detailed quality assurance checks.
for the present-day requirements of
A special distribution conveyor ensures
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the market, but also for those of the
the plant’s high flexibility. It fetches the
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forged aluminium wheels coated at SuperAlloy
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future, too. The
Manufaktur GmbH are destined for exclusive car manufacturers in Europe. The goal of achieving maximum flexibility through a high level of automation of the conveying equipment and robots was implemented perfectly. The flexibility of the wheel plant necessitates the exact definition and planning of the flow of material in order to achieve an optimum mode of operation. To this end, SuperAlloy creates a coating plan each day. The pre-treatment
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Figure 1: SuperAlloy Manufaktur GmbH in Lossburg has put one of the most flexible coating plants in the wheel industry into operation.
N. 50 - MARCH/APRIL 2018 - international PAINT&COATING magazine