Tata Steel' Extra Processing Department is a quality oriented workshop adjacent to the Teesside Beam Mill, which is capable of processing structural sections to a very high degree of accuracy. The flexibility afforded by the advanced Computer Aided Manufacturing facilities, allows for a high degree of customer support - with special focus on the speed and reliability of our service.
Extra Processing offers the following facilities:
- Exact cutting to length
- Drilling
- Coping
- Shotblasting
- Priming
- End milling
- Stamping
- Asymmetric handling & processing
- Testing & inspection
- Other services
1. Exact cutting to length: Kaltenbach HDM1430 cold sawing facilities available for exact square cutting to the mitre or skew. Bundled and rafted material can be considered.
Tolerances - Length (single pieces): Standard exact cutting offered to +/-2mm, with the ability to cut to the following if requested:
- Up to 1 metre +/-0.30mm
- From 1 to 5 metres +/-0.50mm
- From 5 to 10 metres +/-0.85mm
- From 10 to 15 metres +/-1.00mm
Tolerances - Squareness:
- +/-0.15mm per every 100mm blade travel
Tolerances - 45 degree mitre:
- Up to 5 metre +/-1.00mm
- From 5 to 10 metres +/-1.35mm
- From 10 to 15 metres +/-1.60mm
Tolerances - Mitre angle:
- +/- one sixth of a degree
2. Drilling: Peddinghaus BDL 1250 drilling facilities available to process many holes of variable sizes across all sections. Measured depth countersinking can also be considered.
Tolerances - Length (single pieces):
- Up to 10 metre +/-1.00mm
- From 10 to 20 metres +/-1.50mm
- From 20 to 32 metres +/-2.00mm
3. Coping: Process capability for automatically coping material with notches, flange thins and service holes.
Tolerances:
- All detail to within 3.00mm
4. Shotblasting: Spencer Halstead shotblasting machine to blast clean both processed and plain material. The service can be provided up to and including Sa3, to BS 7079:Part1:1989 (ISO 8501-1-1988)
- Sa 2.5 as defined in BS7079 part 1A 1989 (ISO 8501-1-1988)
5. Priming: Air Industrial Developments' paint spraying facilities capable of applying various primers to pre-blasted materials. The facility to leave one flange free of paint is available for material such as floor beams. The paint's dry film thickness is constantly monitored to ISO 2808:1997 standard.
- Coatings up to 30 microns (+/-5 microns) are applied to BS EN 10238 and thickness' controlled using calibrated shims to ISO 2808
- Coatings above 30 microns
6. End milling: Clifton & Baird end miller allows for machining of end profiles to achieve a high accuracy of flatness and squareness, for example the processing of full end load material.
Tolerances:
- Squareness to depth of section/1000
7. Stamping: Where requested by the customer, the stamping marking of all sections can be provided.
8. Asymmetric handling & processing: Extra processing has extensive experience in the processing and handling of this innovative product.
9. Testing & inspection:
Surface inspection
Independent inspection
Ultrasonic testing
Test certificates
Product analysis
Quality assurance
10. Other services available through Extra Processing include:
Cambering - standard and complex cambering can be offered on universal beams and columns
Galvanising
Split to Tees
Castellation
For further information please contact your nearest Tata Steel branch
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