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Applications - Materials Handling

For many years the manufacturers of storage systems and industrial lift trucks have fallen back on the know-how and experience of Hoesch Schwerter Profile GmbH. The design of special profiles for these industries requires a profound understanding of the logistical requirements. Additionally, the profiles must be able to withstand extreme stresses and strains.

Stressable joints, lifting equipment for heavy loads, good visibility and stability are all specific functions required in the industrial lift truck industry, all of which can only be fulfilled by Schwerte special profiles. We produce special profiles of varying load capacities for use in materials handling equipment, from the smallest stackers up to heavy duty industrial forklift trucks, as well as for high storage and shelving systems.

Economic Production

The different profiling processes make it possible to form the material so that it can meet all respective economical, structural and optical conditions. The use of special profiles offers many industries and individual users distinct advantages, e. g.

• best shape properties and fitting accuracy by maintenance of the tightest tolerances
• different material thicknesses within one profile cross-section thus allowing specific reinforcement of highly stressed segments of structural components
• seamless structure of solid and hollow sections, which have to withstand the demands of temperature, pressure, and aggressive media

Machining can be minimized and weight saved by choosing an optimum cross-section, and bottlenecks in machining capacity can thus be avoided.

Hoesch Schwerter Profile GmbH develops special steel profiles in close collaboration with individual users or branches of industry. In contrast to the mass production of other suppliers, however, the Schwerte plants make products whose properties are determined by the customers according to their requirements.

Every profile that leaves the works in Schwerte solves a special construction or manufacturing problem. You know these products as guide rails, clamps, rails, troughs, hinges or frame profiles, which, when conventionally produced, require enormous manufacturing effort.

Hoesch Schwerter Profile GmbH, is able to offer far more economical solutions by manufacturing steel profiles using state of the art technology.

Why?

• Costly processes such as welding, straightening, grinding, milling or turning can be eliminated.
• Material and labour time can be saved during downstream machining due to the near-net cross-section of the profile.
• The multitude of possible cross-sections often creates the possibility to fulfil the functions of adjacent components with a single special profile.

FURTHER PROCESSING To round off our procution program, we also offer our customers the following additional processing steps: sawing milling turning grinding submerged arc welding drilling thread cutting heat treatment surface treatment

Steel is a material with a huge structural, economical and ecological potential. Easily shaped, fully recyclable and highly durable, these material advantages can be further enhanced using special profiles, because our customers are not necessarily bound to high tooling charges and long tooling-up times as a result of the various production processes available in Schwerte. Moreover, small batches of special profiles can also be manufactured economically. Four production processes are available at the Schwerte location:

• Hot rolling
• Hot extruding
• Cold drawing
• Laser welding

To find out if a special profile or a conventionally produced product offers design or economic advantages for your requirements, ask for a personal discussion with our profile and applications advisors.