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Manufacturing Industry

'Straight' safety under pressure.

PACE (Process & Control Engineering),  July, 2007  

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Miguel Gonzalez

SMORGON STEEL GROUP LTD Straightening Plant Relocation

EVERY year Smorgon Steel's manufacturing facility at Laverton North produces fifty-thousand tonnes of steel angle and channel, in lengths of up to fifteen-metres. Historically, the steel lengths underwent a final straightening process at an independently-owned off-site straightening facility, four kilometres from the Smorgon site. So when the off-site facility ceased operations in March 2005, a real challenge was presented to the steel manufacturing giant.

According to Smorgon Steel Project Electrical ...

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