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Title: Equipment Spotlight: Clean Billets Improve Extrusion

Issue #: Vol. 61, No. 3,4

Year: 2003

# of Pages: 1

Description: This Equipment Spotlight considers the issue of dirty billets. Highly engineered shapes and profiles that must meet stringent customer specifications will dictate more exacting guidelines for cleanliness. One advantage of cleaning all raw material as a standard practice is assuring that the full range of superficial contaminants from all known sources have been removed from the billets before they are introduced into the process and equipment. Water-based spray washing is the simplest and most effective billet cleaning method. A superior spray washing system available from Guyson Corporation of New York features an in-line conveyor with two zones: a tunnel-type cabinet for washing and a blow-off zone for high speed air drying.

Product Code: art-00591