MATERIAL ADVANTAGES

What are the material advantages of SCS over Hot-Rolled Black and Pickled and Oil?

LASER CUTTING PREP AND PAINTING

briefing
Oil, dirt and scale on the HRB needs extensive cleanup before painting, plus phosphating Vol. 1 Issue 1
sheet surface diffraction, pretreatment to obtain acceptable adherence and corrosion
and rust can cause auto resistance. P&O steel needs expensive, multi-stage pretreat-
shut-off due to excessive

SCS PLANS ROLL FORWARD

ment before painting. Anything less degrades its corrsosion
surface variation. resistance.
The Scs surface if so smooth, A lean 2-stage rinse is all that’s needed to prep SCS for most
clean and flat that laser and applications. Smooth SCS yields a superior finish for high gloss
plasma cutting speed can paints and better corrosion resistance.
Welcome struction is now underway and the of our new SCS Line during mid/late
The ‘SCS Lasering Guidelines’ help you optimise laser
Welcome to our new Servosteel SCS project is scheduled to be completed October and we expect to have the
be increased as much as setup for increased speed with SCS.
Visit www.servosteel.co.uk to download the guidelines. • SCS process Briefing, the first in a new series of by Christmas. line commissioned and in production
50%, while ‘springback’ is
removes surface publications to mark Servosteel’s new by December.
reduced or eliminated. Improvements to the site access will
rust, yielding a £3.4m investment in SCS capability.This follow in due course with the site
• Speed increases of 20 to 50% highly paintable edition tells you more about our new entrance being located some 100m
• Laser through two sheets at a time surface. machine and where it is to be located. further down Pensnett Road.
with stretcher-leveled SCS sheets. • Big savings fron Most importantly of all it sets out the
• Superb quality in cut, pierce and mark. ‘leaner’ paint ever expanding list of benefits that you SCS Coil-To-Coil Line
prep with no as a potential user of SCS can derive Following order placement last Sep-
phosphating stages. See ‘SCS Paint Prep Guidelines’ for SCS rinse regimen. from the material.
Note that SCS surface ‘shadows’— even from removed
tember we are expecting delivery
WELDING rust­—do not show throught the paint. For more information on SCS please
Oil is tough on welders; it attracts excess dirt to wipe off, Visit www.servosteel.co.uk to download the guidelines.
contact us via telephone 01384 471371
degrades weld integrity, increases the level of hazardous fumes. and ask for Jim Spencer of Phil Guest.
Cleaner steel makes better welds, so with HRB you either clean BENDING AND Alternatively you can email us at
(even grind!) the area to weld , or let weld integrity suffer. FORMING enquiries@servosteel.co.uk
SCS in rollforming and
Clean, SCS welds better, giving a more uniform, stronger bead.
pressbrake work per- Premises
Scs has no oil smoke so metallic particulates disperse much
forms beautifully. With After a rather protracted planning
less - important for safe-
no oil, there’s no ‘slip’ approval process we are very pleased
guarding your welders’ res-
in tooling and its excel- to announce that our existing building
piratory health.
lent shape yeilds con- at Dudley is being extended by some
• Scs welds tested sistent final product shapes. For bends of 30% or more, some 46,000 square feet. Allowing for non-
20% stronger than breaking loose of surface scale on the inside radius is expected. production areas, this will expand our
P&O welds in shear Loose scale is easily wiped or rinsed away and paint adherence covered storage space by approx. 50%.
strength tests. is not diminished. Scale on outer radii shouldn’t break loose With demolition of old buildings and
• 30% savings in fuller and there’s no microcracking. site clearance now completed, con- The new SCS coil-to-coil; line
wire over P&O
‘SCS Welding Guidelines’ give you settings and
suggested consumables to optimise SCS welding.
Visit www.servosteel.co.uk to download the guidelines.

OTHER PROCESSES
Stamping SCS lets lubricant contact the steel, rather than scale
PICKLE LINE
TUBE PRODUCTION or a film of oil so it works better. HRB scale can foul dies
Tubes made from HRB require cleanup prior to coating or enough to reduce part quality, but SCS keeps dies cleaner. P&O
painting and rust is always a concern. it’s often the most fre- stamped parts have areas that rust, but SCS prevents such rust-
ing.
NEW EXTENSION AREA
quent reason for rejecting HRB tubes. Tubes made from P&O
require extensive cleanup prior to welding, fabricating, or coat- Punching/turret work is cleaner with SCS and, due to SCS’
ing/painting. SCS tubes, structural or mechanical, can be ready flatness, more consistent. SCS shows no difference from P&O,
to weld right off the mill, including tool life.
ready to paint right off the SCS LINE

SLITTER 1

SLITTER 2

DECOILER 2

DECOILER 1
Grinding SCS eliminates the need to grind away rust, since it
mill. The SCS shape, with
inhibits rusting. SCS keeps grinding tools from getting ‘gummed
no edge wave, and SCS
up’ with P&O’s oils. See our ‘Guidelines for Grinding SCS’.
cleanliness yields a better,
more uniform seam weld. .
in trials to date SCS welds
faster then P&O, so tube
mills may run faster.
‘SCS Welding Guidelines’ give you settings and suggested
consumables to optimise SCS welding.
LOADING BAY
Visit www.servosteel.co.uk to download the guidelines.
The Servosteel factory floor, showing our new extension and the location of the SCS line.
THE SCS COIL LINE
The SCS coil line brings an impressive
level of efficiency and automation to the
production of SCS coils. One operator
can perform all functions - from coil
loading and threadup, setup of the car-
tridge roller leveller, the centering con-
trol system and SCS Brushing Machine,
to recoiling, banding and removing
processed coils. A color touchscreen
operator console puts all proc-
ess monitoring, system
status and control
functions at the
o p e r a t o r ’s
f i n g e r-
tips.
Safe-
guards built
into equipment and
control logic ensures
personnel, equipment
and product are always
protected.
SCS Coil Lines are built by Red
Bud Industries, a recognized leader
in service center processing systems
for over 45 years. Known for building
accurate, durable equipment and for
top-notch service and training,
For many applications SCS will become
a replacement for a traditional P&O
process, the SCS process (depicted at
right) involves:
• 20% of the floorspace
of a P&O line,
SERVOSTEEL SCS LINE
Dimensions 14m x 45m
Capacity 18000tpm
Materials Hot Rolled/Cold
Reduced
Thickness 0.9-8mm
Width 600-1905mm
Max coil 32tonne
Max O.D. 2130mm
I.D. entry 483-965mm
I.D. exit 508-610mm
Line speed 45mpm
• elimination of hazardous
hydrochloric acid, since SCS
uses ordinary water in a
closed-loop recirculating
cooling/flushing system.
Besides producing a superb SCS sur-
face, the SCS Coil Line also produces
extremely flat material. How? Excel-
lent performance of the line’s roller
levellers combined with extreme ten-
sion in the coil generated by the pulling
force of the
recoiler. This
serves to eliminate practically all traces
of coil breaks and to get poor shape
material very flat. How flat? Coils with
edge wave of over 1700 I units (a 50mm
wave in 600mm of coil) emerge remark-
ably flat from the SCS Coil Line.
There is a built-in facility in the line for
oiling SCS material for customers who
may need it. A similar provision has
been make to degrease oiled galvanised
coil. At a later date a second brushing
machine will be inserted to increase
line capacity to 32000tpm or indeed a
second independent line.
ONE STOP SHOP
Another great advantage for those
wanting to buy SCS to reduce their
manufacturing costs is that at Servos-
teel their coil can be slit or decoiled on
the same site, saving further on trans-
port and double handling charges.
Recovery Opportunities
In addition the future installation of a
degreasing unit will enable coated coil
which has been oiled at source (e.g.
made for automotivce applications) to
go through the SCS process and used
where oiled material is not appropri-
ate.
A hot roll black coil wiped with a clean cloth prior to processing on the
Another great application for SCS is
with coild which has been subject to SCS Coil Line. Dirt, grit and surface rust often found on these coils leaves
water damage either on land or at sea. clear traces on the cloth.
Imagine the savings this will have for
the user whether the material is hot
rolled, cold reduced or galvanised.
A third plus on recovery is the way the
line will take really bad shape material
and using the poewrful levellers and
huge tension to produce amazingly flat
coil. Look on our website at www.ser-
vosteel.co.uk to see the video of this
being done.
Same coil wiped with fresh clean cloth after processing on SCS Coil Line.
The surface is now smooth, clean and rust inhibitive.
WATER FILTRATION SYSTEM
(not shown)
This patented closed-loop system
filters and recirculates the ordinary,
untreated water used to flush away
scale removed in the SCS process.
The compact, two-stage unit col-
lects metallic scale, which is dis-
posed of with scrap steel, and puri-
fies water for re-use.