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PlasmaANNEALER

PlasmaANNEALER is a continuous heat treatment machine for ferrous and non-ferrous wire, rod, tube, rope and strip.

Why choose PlasmaANNEALER?

Branched utility

Plasma heat treatment can be used for annealing, stress relieving or hardening applications.

Materials

  • Copper and copper alloys

  • Stainless steel and steel alloys

  • Nickel, nickel alloys and nitinol

  • Titanium and titanium alloys

  • Aluminium and aluminium alloys

  • Molybdenum and tantalum

  • Gold, silver and other precious metals

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Benefits

  • Bright surfaced finish, scratch-free and without spark damage

  • Simultaneous degreasing and deoxidation in inert atmosphere

  • Adjustable mechanical properties

  • Fine and uniform grain size

  • Homogeneous grain in transversal and longitudinal direction

  • Less die wear in fewer wire breaks in subsequent drawing

High output annealing

  • Lowest production cost in class

  • Low energy, gas and maintenance costs

  • Small production footprint

  • Small power connection required

  • No warming-up/cooling-down time

  • Computer based controls with production and quality control features

What else?

Heat treatment: annealing, stress relieving, hardening
Material form: wire, rod, tube, strip, shaped wire, strand, rope
Process type: continuous

PlasmaPREPLATE

PlasmaPREPLATE process was designed for surface cleaning, surface oxide removal and annealing prior to plating for wires, strip or tube.

Why choose PlasmaPREPLATE?

PlasmaPREPLATE is a chemical-free alternative to chemical cleaning and fluxing. PlasmaPREPLATE can be installed in-line with electroplating or hot dip plating.

Materials

  • Copper and copper alloys

  • Steel alloys

  • Nickel, nickel alloys and nitinol

  • Aluminium and aluminium alloys

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Benefits

  • Heat treatment - homogenous mechanical properties

  • Surface cleaning - removal of fine surface deposits

  • Degreasing - removal of wet lubricant for dry surface finish

  • Surface oxide removal - deoxidation under ion bombardment

  • Surface activation - surface preparation for better coating adhesion

Horizontal PlasmaPREPLATE for electroplating:

  • High-speed surface preparation

  • Simultaneous heat treatment

  • No acid pre-cleaning, no rinsing

  • Improved plating performance

  • Reduced cost of electroplating

Vertical PlasmaPREPLATE for hot-dip plating:

  • High plating speed

  • Acid-free surface preparation

  • Flux-free hot dip plating

  • Strong intermetallic layer

  • Low cost of operation

  • Integrated surface quality control

What else?

Material form: wire, rod, tube, strip, flat wire
Process type: Continuous

PlasmaSUPREX

PlasmaSUPREX is a plasma treatment machine designed for general surface preparation, preheating and annealing prior to any coating process including extrusion.

Why choose PlasmaSUPREX?

PlasmaSUPREX (SUrface PREparation for EXtrusion) offers the most cost effective and environmentally friendly technology, available on the market, with simpler production and higher end product quality.

This product family is a further development of PlasmaPREPLATE. It is a more specialized product for the extrusion market, launched in 2014 for plasma surface preparation before extrusion.

Materials

  • PEEK, PEAK, PTFE, PFS, PA, etc.

Benefits

  • Low processing / production costs

  • Drastic reduction in energy consumption

  • Nearly no water consumption

  • No chemicals required (no toxic waste or slag produced)

  • Higher flexibility on PEEK material options

  • More process steps in one machine

  • Better thermomechanical and thermoelectrical properties of the product

What else?

Material form: wire, rod, tube, strip, flat wire
Process type: Continuous

PV Ribbon Line

PV Ribbon Line is used for production of PV Ribbon. The production includes annealing and cleaning of copper ribbon prior to hot-dip tinning and spooling.

Why choose PV Ribbon Line?

This is an acid-free, flux-free, environmentally friendly process. It provides the operator with safe and clean working conditions. The production is fully automated utilizing an easy-to-use operator interface with integrated quality control features.

PV Ribbon Line components:

  • Payoff or integrated with rolling mill

  • Annealing and surface preparation

  • Tinning and wiping

  • Cooling

  • Takeup with accumulator

Operational benefits:

  • High production speed – up to 10m/min

  • Acid-free, flux-free and operator-friendly production

  • High production up time with utilization rate of up to 95%

  • Quick changeover between different product specifications

  • Short string-in time

  • Less scrap through better product control

  • Less tin waste due to flux-free production

  • Low power and gas consumption

  • Low maintenance costs

  • Computer process controls with user-friendly operator interface

Product quality benefits:

  • Smooth, consistent and shiny tin coat

  • Small tin coat thickness tolerance

  • Super-soft or extra-soft PV ribbon (Rp0.2% down to 50MPa)

  • Computer-based production know-how management

  • Computer-based quality control

  • Production recipe database

  • Integrated alarm system with fault record database

What else?

Process type: Continuous
Inlet Material: Rolled copper ribbon copper on 500kg spools
Size Range: Interconnect ribbon and bus bar
Finished Material: Tinned flat copper wire / PV ribbon on various spool sizes