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Drilling and Cutting Equipment
News Release from: ESAB Cutting Systems | Subject: Suprarex cutting machine
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 24 September 2007
Civil engineering fabricator relies on
Suprarex
A major German civil engineering fabricator has been reaping the benefits of ESAB's Suprarex cutting machine in the fabrication of a giant steel bridge known as the Berliner Brucke.
The 73 metre high and 650 ton all-steel construction has two base piers which meet at a height of 35 metres and form an A-shaped gate above the road The base piers are topped by the pylon peak where the cables are anchored
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 10 Aug 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The openings, through which the diagonal cables were suspended, had to be ultra-precisely cut into the steel plates.
The cutting task was very complex because elipse-shaped inner contours had to be cut into complicated steel plates.
For these highly demanding cutting tasks, the Suprarex portal cutting system was adapted to the company's specific requirements.
Not only did they need a high-performance plant for cutting material of a thickness of up to 150mm, but also an extremely flexible oxy-fuel cutting unit, for the complex elipse cuts.
The Suprarex features a continuously turning three-burner unit with which any geometries could be realised with double-bevel grooves, Y-as well as V-grooves by oxy-acetylene cutting.
The other features of the portal cutting machine included a single oxy-acetylene cutting torch as well as plasma marking.
During the planning of the production process, ESAB's COLUMBUS programming system proved to be a very sophisticated and flexible tool.
After a brief introduction, the customer was able to program the cutting processes required.
The program, which was developed on a PC, was simply downloaded from the company network and processed by ESAB at the cutting machine via its VISION controller.
It was even possible to integrate easily complex geometries such as the elipse cuts and bezel cuts in the program sequence. Request a free brochure from ESAB Cutting Systems ...
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