OREANDA-NEWS. Uralhimmash purchased and put into operation a bridge-type oxyfuel plasma cutting machine produced by MESSER. The equipment was purchased for more than €800,000 and will be used for carbon and alloy steel cutting. The new machine is installed in the boiler blanking shop № 23 in line with the programme for the shop's modernisation.

MESSER oxyfuel cutting machine consists of cutting table of 4*17 meters, extension table with divided ventilation, axis movement operator's platform, two triple-cutter blocks and two single- cutter blocks (oxyfuel and flame cutters). The machine is also equipped with tray and supports moving along axis guide ways powered by electric engines, CNC control, power source and air and gas handling unit.

The equipment can cut stainless steel sheets of up to 40 mm wide and carbon steel sheets of up to 300 mm wide. Cutting speed varies from 75 mm/min to 10,000 mm/min. The machine is able of steel cutting using gas with repeatable precision of up to 0.1 mm, which allows producing parts that do not demand additional mechanical processing.

The machine is ecofriendly and cost-efficient: the air used for production is filtered inside the machine and gets to the production shop clean.

MESSER oxyfuel machine solves various problems at once: it replaces old equipment consequently increasing productivity, expands technological capabilities and increases range of manufactured products.

For information: The boiler blanking shop № 23 was launched in December 1985. The shop is equipped with a ESAB heat cutting machines for metal blanks. Square of the shop is 36,000 m2, estimated output reaches 6,000 tons of metal per months. There are four automated gas and plasma cutting lines as well as metal flattening and marking lines operating in the shop. In 2012 modernisation of the shop has started: heat furnace was reconstructed, in 2013 a bandsaw machine MEBAeco 510DG-700 produced in Germany was put into operation. Up to date a project for establishing a metal pre-processing department is running.

OJSC Uralhimmash manufactures equipment for petrochemical and oil and gas processing industries, the chemical industry, iron & steel and non-ferrous metallurgy, companies in conventional and nuclear energy generation sectors and for the construction industry. Uralhimmash is certified to manufacture high-pressure vessels as required by the ASME Code (Section VIII, Division 1, Stamp U). In April 2011 Uralhimmash has successfully passed an audit for expansion of the certification area under the ASME Code (Section VIII, Division 2, stamp U2). OJSC Uralhimmash's strategic partner is Gazprombank.