EWMenn Ships its Largest Flat-DieThread Roller
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EWMenn GmbH & Co. KG shipped its largest flat-die thread roller, president Ernst W. Menn announced. The 42-ton Model GW 161-HX produces extra long screws used in construction. The “operator friendly” machine includes a new crash recovery system and new feeding system for long products.
The thread roller was built for Schraubenwerk Gaisbach GmbH Produktion.
EWMenn quoted Reinhold Würth: “If you want to sell screws you should know how screws are made,” in explaining why in addition to selling screws, Würth started screw production in 1958, which led to SWG Production operating independently since 1967.
Würth purchased its first of now 45 thread rolling machines from EWMenn.
Today SWG Production manufactures 11 million pieces or 70 tons of screws per day. SWG produces ASSY self-drilling woodscrews.
The new production machines increase output rates and have shorter setup times.
Plant manager Mathias Blinzinger explained “200mm length screws cannot be handled as bulk material anymore. They require quite different logistics compared with standard screws.”
In heat treatment parts up to 200mm in length can be sent through the furnace on standard belts, “long parts require being transported hanging in special racks,” Blinzinger said. “The furnaces in tern need to be equipped to handle these racks.”
The GW 161-HX took two years to design and develop, EWMenn technical director Eberhard Roth noted. It is able to roll parts up to 1,000mm in shank length; 350mm in thread length and diameters from 7 to 16mm.
Founded in 1913 by master mechanic Ernst Wilhelm Menn, the company started building slotting machines in 1930 and thread rollers in 1950. In 2008 EWMenn delivered its 5,000th machine. EWMenn is headquartered at Trift 8, D57271 Hilchenbach, Germany. Tel: (40) 2733 1292 01 Fax (49) 2733 1292 678 Web: ewmenn.de.
EWMenn GmbH & Co. KG shipped its largest flat-die thread roller, president Ernst W. Menn announced. The 42-ton Model GW 161-HX produces extra long screws used in construction. The “operator friendly” machine includes a new crash recovery system and new feeding system for long products.
The thread roller was built for Schraubenwerk Gaisbach GmbH Produktion.
EWMenn quoted Reinhold Würth: “If you want to sell screws you should know how screws are made,” in explaining why in addition to selling screws, Würth started screw production in 1958, which led to SWG Production operating independently since 1967.
Würth purchased its first of now 45 thread rolling machines from EWMenn.
Today SWG Production manufactures 11 million pieces or 70 tons of screws per day. SWG produces ASSY self-drilling woodscrews.
The new production machines increase output rates and have shorter setup times.
Plant manager Mathias Blinzinger explained “200mm length screws cannot be handled as bulk material anymore. They require quite different logistics compared with standard screws.”
In heat treatment parts up to 200mm in length can be sent through the furnace on standard belts, “long parts require being transported hanging in special racks,” Blinzinger said. “The furnaces in tern need to be equipped to handle these racks.”
The GW 161-HX took two years to design and develop, EWMenn technical director Eberhard Roth noted. It is able to roll parts up to 1,000mm in shank length; 350mm in thread length and diameters from 7 to 16mm.
Founded in 1913 by master mechanic Ernst Wilhelm Menn, the company started building slotting machines in 1930 and thread rollers in 1950. In 2008 EWMenn delivered its 5,000th machine.
EWMenn is headquartered at Trift 8, D57271 Hilchenbach, Germany. Tel: (40) 2733 1292 01 Fax (49) 2733 1292 678 Web: ewmenn.de ©2011 GlobalFastenerNews.com
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