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POWER & GENERATORS
ENERGY SAVINGS
enowned across central and southeast Europe for its steel forging factories, Acciaierie Bertoli Safau (ABS) has been immersed in metallurgy for over 200 years. ABS has two core production sites, one located in Cargnacco, Italy, and one in Sisak, Croatia, as well as a cutting-edge research centre in Metz, France, in which it carefully hones its centuries-old craft. ABS steel is mainly used in the automotive industry, where it has a broad range of applications throughout the supply chain of creating and maintaining vehicles. Whether it is wire rods, ingots, rolled billets, forged bars or rotoforged products, each unique process requires carefully controlled heat to activate the chemical reactions that change ore into the extraordinary. In the intense environment needed to mould steel (which melts at temperatures above 1,200°C) it is no surprise that it can take considerable supplies of energy to create sufficient heat as the ore is slowly melted, purified and recast into the desired shape and form.
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CUTTING COSTS WITH CUTTING-EDGE TECH With energy prices rising across Europe, ABS is taking action to actively cut maintenance costs across the board - with the help of
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cutting-edge Teledyne FLIR technology. ABS’ Udine factory has a direct supply of electricity from the Italian power grid to drive an induction furnace which is used to melt ore and recycled materials into shaped steel. The site receives electricity through an on-site substation, and uses compressed air extensively throughout the production
process to power many manually repetitive operations - such as moving sections of a metal bar that has been cut to length into bundles, or coiling operations. The compressed air systems run through the entire length of the production operation with hundreds of couplings, filters and actuators - each with the potential to leak.
THAT RESONATE HOW ULTRASONIC IMAGING IS CUTTING COSTS FOR INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRY
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