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ORGANIZER;CN=ESTAD 2023:mailto:info@metec-estad.com
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SUMMARY:Optimized surface conditioning by means of state-of-the-art grinding equipment, solid user know-how and real-time data acquisition
DESCRIPTION:To reliably prevent material defects occuring in the course of downstream production processes such as e. g. hot rolling, cold rolling, etc. as well as in the final product, a corresponding treatment of the surfaces of the starting products like continuously cast slabs, blooms or billets is essential. 

While in the past cracks and other surface defects were mostly removed by means of scarfing, high-pressure grinding has now established itself as the superior technology for this purpose. Thanks to a controlled, even material removal (only as much as necessary, also on curved products) without any thermal impact on the material structure, no material losses due to the possibility of collecting the chips resulting from grinding by alloy and to recycle them, the environmental friendliness of the process (fossil-free, no CO2 emissions, clean exhaust air by filtering-out residual dusts which can also be recycled, etc.), as well as the excellent quality of the ground surfaces and high throughput capacity that can be achieved, high-pressure grinding is superior compared to scarfing but also milling.

In order to ensure optimum operating results reliably and cost-effectively, a state-of-the-art grinding equipment tailored to the specific application and a profound user know-how for the grinding operation are necessary. Both can be guaranteed by Groupe IMCG as a specialized manufacturer and supplier of top-quality grinding machines (which also allow the utilization of the data and coordinates of surface defects detected beforehand by inspection systems for an automated flaw grinding) and experienced provider of conditioning services to the steel and special metal industries.

As described in this paper, Groupe IMCG has also developed a powerful material data management system that allows all important material and process data to be acquired in real time and subsequently evaluated for process optimization and reporting purposes.

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