Russian pipe producing company United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has announced that its Russia-based Chusovoy Steel Works (ChSW) has commissioned a new set of equipment for shot blasting springs sheets under tension, which will upgrade the quality and prolong the life cycle for automobile springs produced by ChSW. This is the first time this technology is being used at the factory.
The equipment set consists of a shot blaster, a transport system, and aspiration and loading systems made by leading European machine-building companies. The equipment makes it possible to process spring sheets (the steel strips used to make automobile springs) under special conditions by preserving the residual steel compression tension.