Broadened range of aluminium slitting options

A Cashmores product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Dec 9, 2002

Aluminium buyers can now look to multi-metals processor and distributor Cashmores to offer a substantially broadened range of aluminium slitting options.

Aluminium buyers can now look to multi-metals processor and distributor Cashmores to offer a substantially broadened range of aluminium slitting options.

With nine slitting lines at its Walsall site, it can cope with input coil from 1t to full works coils of 8t.

Cashmores set out to become a large-scale supplier of processed aluminium with the acquisition of the Corus aluminium distribution business, which involved moving its processing operation from Hemel Hempstead to the Walsall site.

The result has been an increase in the range and breadth of slitting options available.

Aluminium commercial manager Simon Barron explains: "At Hemel, we had a good but limited slitting operation.

Since our move to Walsall, we have gone from being a niche operator to a major player and we can now cope with virtually anything a customer could throw at us".

The slitting lines at Cashmores use shimless tooling, which yields extremely tight tolerances with minimum edge burr for ease of component manufacturing and improved coil build up reduces both machine downtime and scrap.

In-house rejections are minimised by the comprehensive range of feedstock available and for surface protection, material can be supplied plastic coated or tissue paper interleaved.

Slit widths start at 6mm and go up to 1300mm and Simon Barron comments: "Anything between is possible - and there is not much that customers could want outside of that range".

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