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News Release from: Siemens Flender | Subject: Arpex couplings
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 21 June 2007
Couplings upgrade coating machine
throughput
UPM Caledonian Paper has used Flender Arpex couplings to upgrade a coating machine at its Irvine works.
When UPM Caledonian Paper needed to upgrade a coating machine at its Irvine works, it selected a total of 53 Flender Arpex couplings in varying sizes and lengths The coating machine processes 750 tonnes of lightweight coated paper per day, and the new couplings were installed during a scheduled 15-day shutdown at the beginning of March
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 3 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Caledonian Paper's project supervisor Paul Tully said the Flender couplings were easy to assemble within the tight timeframe; Arpex couplings feature a split-hub design, and so are ideal for installations where space is tight and time is short without moving the driving or driven shafts.
They are high-torque torsionally rigid devices and can where required also be ATEX-approved.
The coating machine runs 24 hours per day at the busy plant, so reliability was an essential requirement, and throughput is expected to be improved as a direct result of the upgrade.
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