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Positioned Cleaning of 360 Suspension Tubes/Hour with Teknox’s Technology
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Teknox recently installed a cleaning system for suspension tubes at a Romanian factory of an important German car part manufacturer. system devoted exclusively to the cleaning of suspension tubes has been recently installed in
the Romanian plant of an important German company, a Tier1 supplier of several major car manufacturers and a car part manufacturer. TEKNOX (Budrio, Bologna, Italy) designed and installed it in collaboration with local distributor BLAUTECH INDUSTRIAL (Brasov, Romania). Established in 1967, Teknox specialises in the design and construction of industrial cleaning systems with water-based products. The cleaning system installed at the Romanian factory includes a tunnel plant with an inverted conveyor featuring workpiece-holding fixtures. These were specially designed so that one operator alone can hook (during loading) and
The cleaning plant for suspension tubes.
unhook (during unloading) the suspension tubes to be treated, whose size ranges
reaching the second chamber, the
The entrance of each area features
from 38 mm in diameter and 150 mm in
parts pass through a neutral area to
laser sensors that communicate
height to 65 mm in diameter and 800 mm
avoid contamination of the following
with a PLC, which allows monitoring
in height.
bath. The subsequent station
and managing the entire cycle. The
In the loading-unloading station, the
performs a rinse with a solution of
first cleaning tank is also equipped
operator places the parts on the quick-
water and an antioxidant protective
with a coalescing oil separator
spring coupling fixtures. Once on the
product. After rinsing, the tubes are
produced by Teknox, guaranteeing
conveyor, the components are taken
subjected to a first drying stage with
the separation of pollutants from the
through a “step-by-step” movement
compressed air. Then, they enter the
cleaning solution and its subsequent
to the first chamber, for the cleaning
actual hot-air drying station, reaching a
recirculation. The productivity of this
process with an alkaline detergent.
temperature of 130° C. Before arriving
plant is 8000 tubes per day on
Nozzles mounted on the walls clean the
at the unloading area, they finally pass
three shifts.
outside of the tubes, whereas another
through a cooling area in order to
The next ICT issue will include an
one enters them to clean their internal
enable their handling, at a maximum
article about the success story of this
areas with a high-pressure jet. Before
temperature of about 30 °C.
interesting plant.
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N. 63 - MAY/JUNE 2020 - international PAINT&COATING magazine