DISA Industries A/S and Senator Technology GmbH have signed a sales cooperation contract (MBS) - 15.12.2003

Founded in 1900, DISA is the world’s leading supplier of moulding lines and a wide range of foundry equipment, such as shot blast, fettling/trimming and air pollution control systems that offer individual solutions for a great variety of jobs and applications.

With factories, and sales and service offices on three continents and an extensive agent network, DISA serves international industrial manufacturers, foundries and metalworking industries with leading edge technology solutions, tailored to their specific needs.

Through co-operation with Senator Technology, DISA Industries A/S can also now offer the Total Foundry Solution to die-casting foundries.

Senator Technology’s product brand MBS Casting Technology has been the leading manufacturing company of die-casting machinery for 20 years. Their products are standard machinery and individual casting cells with dosing devices for automatic aluminium die casting, die-casting machines, handling devices for core setting and casting removal, turntables, complete casting cells as well as special machines on individual customers’ request.

On 1 December 2003 DISA and Senator Technology signed a sales co-operation contract. With this co-operation we can fulfil our customers’ request of purchasing the complete product range from core production to finished casting from one partner worldwide. DISA completes the product range with core production, core handling, tools/moulds, transport- and cooling units and the complete casting finishing, including parts control (deburring, punching, cutting, grinding and testing).

Sales and service for the complete product line of Senator Technology will be made with our new partner in 16 countries around the world.

Hydraulic cutting systems - your reliable partner! (Schneider Senator) - 12.09.2003

Press release issued in Bindereport 10/2003
Over decades, the combination of hydraulic clamping and electro-mechanic knife drive has been the yardstick for high-speed paper cutting machines. Senator S-Line 115 H was the first direct fully-hydraulic driven guillotine in the international market. With this fundamentally new design Schneider Senator offered a machine with new production figures and virtually maintenance-free components. Due to the positive response in the market Senator Technology meanwhile offers 3 direct fully-hydraulic driven machine types with cutting widths of 115, 137 and 155 cm. Have these machines proven their reliability in the past?

First of all we show the differences in design between electro-mechanical and direct fully-hydraulic driven machines at the example of Senator S-Line 115 H guillotine from Senator Technology.

The electro-mechanic guillotine
On a conventional machine, the power of the electric motor is converted into linear movement via gear box and clutch. Normally, an electro-magnetic or hydraulic clutch transfers the power via draw rod to the knife carrier. The knife is being pushed through the cut material as the draw rod is mounted above the cutting edge of knife. In case of mechanical overload, guillotines of this design are equipped with shear pins or other safety devices. The knife change of an electro-mechanic cutting machine is conducted manually or by means of a small knife change motor. A fine adjustment is always necessary. A regular maintenance and lubrication is very important for electro-mechanical guillotines. Hereby, various greasing points have to be served individually. Some manufacturers offer a central lubrication system against upcharge.

The fully-hydraulic driven guillotine
Two hydraulic cylinders are the center piece of the knife drive in a fully-hydraulic driven guillotine like Senator S-Line H. Gear box, clutch and flywheel are no longer necessary. The clamping and the optical cut indicator work hydraulically like in conventional machines. During the cut, a second hydraulic pump is activated automatically. The knife is pulled through the cutting material with absolutely constant pressure and absolutely constant speed. The tendency of the knife to deflect is reduced to an absolute minimum which has never been reached before, as the hydraulic cylinders are mounted to the knife carrier below knife cutting edge. The precision guide rails for the knife carrier are maintenance-free.

Due to the patented, automatic knife change from Senator Technology a fine adjustment after knife change is no longer necessary. An adjustment of the knife draw rod is not applied. The set-up time of a hydraulic guillotine is reduced by approx. 50 to 80% compared to an electro-mechanic machine. When comparing the technical details of these two high-speed guillotine designs, the differences are quite obvious (please see table).

Deduction
Fully-hydraulic machines are faster, more precise and therefore more productive than electro-mechanical machines. Customers confirm that these machines are more service and maintenance friendly because of the deletion of various wear and tear parts. For a knife change the machine has to be stopped for 10 minutes only, this safes time and money. The new knife drive and guidance also offers longer knife standing times. Therefore, direct hydraulically driven high-speed cutters offer real alternatives. It is very useful to compare the prices between the two technologies under consideration of the offered level of standard equipment.

Additional peripheral equipment from Senator Technology for lifting, storage, restacking, jogging and destacking of cutting material are very important for rational and effective paper processing. We design individual cutting with detailled machine plan according to customers’ individual needs (f.e. production quantities and availability of space). Please ask for our special conditions.

After one year under the company name Senator Technology (previously known as Maschinenbau Sproetze) the product line MBS - Casting Technology delivered and installed several die casting cells for chassis part production. This year’s orders came from “big names" in Germany and overseas like VW Braunschweig, Rautenbach Guss Wernigerode, a well known automobile combine in Stuttgart and Auma Lerma Bocar Group in Mexico. The new casting concepts and die casting machines increased MBS Casting Technology’s turnover to 126% of last year’s sales. This trend will also continue for next year. 67% of the planned turnover for 2003 was already fixed as an order until 31st December, 2002.

The projects in detail:
For Rautenbach Guss Wernigerode/Germany we designed and installed a casting cell for chassis part production, equipped with two reversing foundry turntables for two die casting machines each including dosing device. Meanwhile we received an order from Rautenbach for a similar casting cell for cylinder head production.

At VW in Braunschweig/Germany 20 casting machines delivered by Senator Technology with DUO-traversal-dosing devices started chassis part production in early summer this year. The same order volume was delivered three months later.

In April we shipped 4 tiltable die casting machines with one core removal device each to Auma Lerma Bocar Group in Mexico. These tiltable casting machines will be used for intake manifold production. This year Senator Technology will also install a linear movable dosing device over there.

Senator Technology delivered first half of their order to a big automobile combine in Stuttgart/Germany in summer 2003 including 4 dosing devices, core setting and - removal devices and further peripheral equipment. The second lot will be delivered in October.

Furthermore MBS Casting Technology increased their sales for standard and tiltable casting machines. We noticed an increasing demand for new designs for casting machines and dosing devices, this is a pleasant trend in the today’s economic situation. More and more German companies invest in special machines designed and manufactured by Senator Technology. The reason for this development is the customer-demanded exact dosing for high quality casts, which is a special feature of MBS - Casting Technology’s dosing devices.

MBS Casting Technology on foundry exhibition GIFA in Duesseldorf
from June 16 to 21, 2003

The die casting branch will meet on the 10th International Die Casting Exhibition from June 16 to 21, 2003 in Düsseldorf. After last year's consolidation of Maschinenbau Sprötze and KG Schneider Senator GmbH & Co. this will be our first appearance as Senator Technology GmbH. In 2003, we again exhibit together with Messrs. Rautenbach Guss, Wernigerode. Please visit us on our booth in Hall 16, Stand F 39.

On an area of 122 sqm we will show you the latest developments in die casting technology. The principal item of our booth will be a part of a aluminium gravity die casting cell which had been designed and manufactured on order of a customer. This system mainly consists of two newly designed serial die casting machines on a 180° reversing table with a diameter of 5 meters.

The machines on the table are on one hand a compact horizontal gravity die casting machine and on the other hand a tiltable gravity die casting machine developed on that basis. These machines are partly equipped with extensive process safe heating and cooling media and are suitable for industrial manufacturing and "stand-alone" solutions as well. The dosing at the exhibited system is made by a 4-axle portal dosing device appropriate for casting weights up to 50 kg aluminium.

This will demonstrate that dosing is possible statically on die casting machines and moving on tiltable gravity die casting machines. The exhibited system is only one of many innovative solutions in order to produce an absolutely high-quality casting product by using our dosing devices.

For the founder of master piece production and frequently changing products we will show a very simple but robust casting block often being used in small and medium-size foundries or in test and prototype foundries.