Voortman Machinery for Steel Service Centres

> Innovative Solutions for Beam and Plate Processing

Voortman Voortman

has

designed,

developed

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manufactured machinery for the Steel Service Centre and Steel Stockholder market for almost 40 years. Every machine in the Voortman range is manufactured at our headquarters in the Netherlands. Voortman has international subsidiaries in Germany, United Kingdom, Poland, Portugal, USA, Russia and Australia responsible for sales and service. Being a globally recognised manufacturer within the Steel Service Centre and the Steel Stockholder market, Voortman now has thousands of systems installed worldwide.

Voortman Machinery for Steel Service Centres

The market! The traditional role for stockholders had been one of buying in large quantities, stocking and distributing in smaller quantities. Today, stockholders have increased their investment in equipment for cutting, sawing, drilling, shot blasting and painting systems so as to provide “Added Value” processing to all orders. This has now established firmly the role of the Steel Service Centre, with Voortman being at the forefront of this changing market.

The Range With an innovative, technical and extensive machinery range a stockholder can select a single sawing machine through to combining several operations into one line controlled by one operator including sawing, drilling, coping, blasting and painting. Now with our latest technology Voortman can provide multiple operations in a fully automated production line.

Quick “Return On Investment”! Voortman delivers high quality equipment at excellent prices. Therefore investing in a Voortman machine to automate your production process, reduces your production costs considerably and provides you with a Quick Return on Investment.

For processing steel more efficiently, improving productivity, reducing man-hours, minimizing waste and avoiding costly production errors use a fully automated Voortman steel processing system! The following operations/processes can be combined into one system:

sawing

cutting

drilling

coping

blasting

numbering

counter sinking

thread tapping

centerpoint marking

layout marking

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painting

Quality Quality is the key word for Voortman. Voortman only uses proven, quality standard components from globally established suppliers like Bosch Rexroth, Festo, Siemens and Control Techniques. The use of standard components that are readily available ensures the availability and serviceability of your machines.

Maximum utilization When the material is being cleaned at the start of the line, the shotblaster is always optimally utilized so that wear to the machine will be kept to a minimum and giving high productivity.

Automatic Shotblasting The VSB shotblasters are designed for the automatic shot blasting of profiles and plates.

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Beam and plate processing (Blasting/Sawing)

Saw capacity efficiently utilized Several profiles can be cut simultaneously in a bundle so that the capacity of the saw will be efficiently utilized; this results in considerable time and cost savings.

Automatic material positioning The stop truck is fitted with a liftable stop plate, which rotates up and away from the conveyor pass line after use. A sensor device detects the presence of material and initiates the sawing cycle.

High output The 15kW turbines of the Voortman shot blasters guarantee a high passage speed. The feed of the sawing machine are automatically adjusted to the material thickness to minimize the cutting time. Investment in a Voortman guarantees unmatched productivity.

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Automatic material handling Several machines can be coupled together by means of automated handling systems. After blasting the plates will be loaded automatically onto the drilling table of the plate processing system and the profiles onto the infeed conveyor of the selected saw.

High speed blasting The heavy-duty turbines guarantee a high passage speed. With the brush and blow-off unit the shot and dust will be removed efficiently.

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High speed drilling After loading the plate onto the drilling table all the required holes will be drilled automatically. The feed, speed and torque is perfectly suited for using carbide tooling.

Plasma cutting with high definition technology The plasma torch will cut all nested parts automatically. With the oxy-fuel torches several products can be cut simultaneously.

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Beam and plate processing

(Blasting/Sawing/Drilling/Cutting)

High speed cutting The sophisticated straight and mitre cutting band saws of the VB-range provide extremely short cutting times and are easily to operate.

Maximum productivity The drilling gantry and the cutting gantry of the plate processing system can both run independently. While the cutting gantry is cutting the previous drilled plate, the drilling gantry is already drilling the next plate so you have simultaneous operations. A drilled plate will be loaded onto the cutting table automatically.

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Automatic Surface treatment & Sawing System This production line is provided with a mitre cutting band saw, pre-heating oven, shot blaster, automatic painting booth and drying tunnel ensuring that the profiles are ready for delivery with a minimum of material handling.

Automatic batch preparation The Voortman software carries out automatic batch preparation for the material to be blasted and painted. These machines will be loaded automatically.

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Pre-Heating The pre-heating oven prepares the profiles before blasting for using water based paints.

Pre-programmed blasting cycles The control is simple, due to the preprogrammed blasting cycles, automatic start sequence and many additional automatic functions.

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Beam processing

(Sawing/Blasting/Painting)

Finished product After painting and drying the beams will be unloaded automatically.

Ultimate Automation Various machines are coupled with automatic material handling systems to control the complete production line with a minimum of operators to reduce the number of man-hours and avoid costly errors.

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Automatic Beam processing and Surface treatment line This automated totally flexible production line is completed with two mitre cutting band saws, triple axis drilling system, shot blaster, automatic painting booth and drying tunnel. These machines coupled with the central roller conveyor, results in a highly flexible system to enable the use any or all of the available processes dependant on a customers requirement, it also requires minimal material handling for transferring from bay to bay.

Reduction cost of labour The machine operators of the sawing machines are able to control the complete line for the sawing, drilling, blasting and painting process.

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Painting Painting system with multiple spray

Swarf removal

guns for solvent based paints.

Automatic removal of swarf prior to the blasting and painting process.

High speed Simultaneous drilling of web and flanges with carbide tipped drills. Drilling system provided with automatic tool changers and integrated feeder rolls.

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Beam processing

(Sawing/Drilling/Blasting/Painting)

Simple control After importing the production files to the Voortman production system software the whole system knows automatically what needs to be produced. From the control desk of the saws all machinery for drilling, blasting and painting can be organised.

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Complete automated production facility Mainly the material flow and its machinery define the productivity of a production plant. Automated material handling and high quality/speed production machinery from Voortman coupled with the customers Stock control software, results in an optimum production system.

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Maximized up-time With one central conveyor for feeding the raw material to the correct process and one central conveyor for transferring the finished products to the correct bay, ensures the efficient and optimum usage of the hall cranes. The two central roller conveyors ensure total flexibility for material handling and transferring, with no delays due to material cross overs. This set-up results in the maximum “ Up-time” of all the production machines in this beam processing system.

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Coping system The structural steel coping system is fitted with oxy-fuel and/or plasma cutting. This 6 axis robotic structural coping system is provided with a roller feed measuring system for total flexibility and accuracy.

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Beam processing

(Sawing/Drilling/Coping/Blasting/Painting/Cambering)

Total manufacturing Sawing, Drilling, Coping, Blasting, Painting and Cambering from a single steel supplier, capable of delivering the complete processed package required by the customer.

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Tailor made Voortman has developed machinery specifically to cover all aspects of the Steel Stockholder and Service Centre market. Our extensive range of equipment guarantees we can provide the right solution for every application. Using roller conveyors and cross transports to improve material handling all the machines can be combined in a configuration to suit the end user. With the final layout dependent on several factors, such as the available space, the production output required and the type of processes required. You are always guaranteed the optimum solution for your company from Voortman! Software All Voortman machines are provided with a Windows based VACAM control software. The customer’s production information is imported into the central database of VACAM, so that all the required information is available for all machines in the production line. Voortman supplies the software programme “VACAM Office-edition” which enables customers to import product information/DSTV data or to create products. Production flow visualisation The Voortman VACAM Software not only enables the operators to visually follow in real time the production progress, but also production management from an office desktop.

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Voortman Machinery for Steel Service Centres

Production Data Exporter During the production process all data will be logged in the SQL production database. With the Voortman Production data Exporter (PDE) information can be extracted from the production database to generate typical reports for example: “Tonnage”, “Project overview” and “Operations”. The PDE exports data to a CSV format, which can be imported into Excel for analyzing and editing. These reports supply stock holders and steel service centres very valuable information such as produced tonnages, the amount of cuts and holes, cutting times, drilling times, shot blast and painting square meters, etc. With this readily accessible online data it is much easier to make accurate calculations. Import of the CSV data to the customers ERP/MRP software is also possible. Data from the production database can also be loaded into OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) software to analyze production losses. Online support By means of a highly secure Net Viewer connection, the Voortman helpdesk engineer can access the machine from his desktop and can support the machine operator online. The system status will be displayed on the monitor of the Voortman helpdesk engineer to diagnose and analyse directly online. For real time monitoring all production machines are provided with a web cam. The helpdesk engineer can watch the video on his monitor and communicate with the operator.

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Voortman

Voortman United Kingdom Ltd.

P.O. Box 87

Unit 5 Mercian Park

7460 AB Rijssen

Felspar Road, Amington

Ozonstraat 1

Tamworth (Staffordshire)

7463 PK Rijssen

B77 4DP

The Netherlands

United Kingdom

(t) +31 (0)548 536 373

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Tümplinger Straße

Office 309

Postfach 21

120 Moskovsky Prospect

07774 Camburg

Saint Petersburg, 196084

Deutschland

Russia

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Voortman South East Asia

Unit F

58 Wuduru Road

450 South Spruce st.

4130 Cornubia, Queensland

Manteno IL-60950 USA

Australia

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Voortman Poland S.p. z o.o.

Avenida Severiano Falcão, S/N

Ul. Niepołomicka 37

P-2685-380 PRIOR VELHO

71-018 Szczecin

Portugal

Poland

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