NEW PRESS BLANKING LINE FOR CHINA

Gestamp has purchased recently from FAGOR ARRASATE a new press blanking line to cut blanks that will be installed at its factory in Wuhan, China . Installation will be manufactured together by the main facility of Fagor in Spain and the factory of Fagor in China, FMMTK. The press, eccentric, will have a capacity of 1250 ton with a bolster’s size of 5000 x 2600 mm. The stroke of the press will be 400 mm. It will have moving bolsters to allow a very quick change of the dies that, in this particular case, can weigh up to 50 ton. Of course, to assure the quick change, the machine will have automatic quick clamps.
The coil feeding line  will be able to process high strength steel in thickness up to 6 mm at 40 m/min of speed. It is a long line type, with loop, in order to improve productivity and quality of the material’s surface