Three mega successes

The company holds approvals required by the oil and gas industry including IS0 9001, ISO 14001 as well as numerous end user approvals.

Part of the Special Steel Group, Special Quality Alloys was delighted to have been requested to produce a total of 35,000 bars to be cut to size from billets, forming part of a single individual project.

The company had previously purchased a number of saws from Prosaw, but this specialised rapid sawing application was so intensive that three brand new saws were required in order to fulfil the demand.

Firstly, Prosaw supplied a Mega BS330HAS heavy-duty automatic bandsaw to the company, which has been fully employed cutting the billets seven days a week since installation. Later, this machine was supplemented with two further machines from Prosaw, a Mega H-460A heavy-duty automatic twin column bandsaw and a second Mega 330HAS Automatic. All three Mega saws are capable of superfast cutting of the high Rockwell hardness nickel steel billets.

Special Quality Alloys, operations director Dean Matthews comments: “These saws have proved themselves to be very reliable in what has been intensive service and have established their capability in efficiently and accurately handling a very challenging material.”

He adds: “All three Mega saws are demonstrably reliable in service, which of course reduces the frequency of any servicing that might be required, and in turn reduces both downtime and servicing costs.”

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