Wooden Reel Production Facility installs an Automatic Paint Line

For their wooden reel production units, HES upgraded their paint line into an automatic one and selected Graco equipment as the ideal solution.

HES Hacilar elektrik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. established in 1974 in Kayseri-Turkey, is one of the leading companies in the wire and cable industry producing Copper Telecommunication Cable, Fibre Optic Cable, Data & LAN Cable, Power Cable, High Voltage Power Cables, Overhead Line Conductor, Copper Wire, Enamelled Wire and PVC Granule. The production is performed at a fully integrated plant with a total floor space of 150,000 m² and a site area of 410,000 m² equipped with the latest technologies.

Recently, company managers decided to invest in an automatic paint line for their wooden reel production units, with a capacity of 45.000 units per annum and a diameter of 30 to 260 cm. Graco’s distributor, Altekma, was selected for the project installation.

The project required labelling and coating of reels via an automatic system, with no pump sprayer, nor paint pails in the application zone, and required an automatic cleaning of the pipe line.

LOW-PRESSURE PAINT SUPPLY SYSTEM

Altekma offered a low-pressure paint supply system with Graco’s reliable Triton pumps and Graco AirPro Auto spray guns for the desired surface quality. All pumps include regulators to avoid pulsation and to ensure constant delivery. In the spray zone, a total of six guns are mounted onto four arms. Two are for labelling and have a 1.1 mm tip size, and the other four are for reel coating and have a 1.4 mm tip size. The robot arms work subsequently.

A total of eight Triton pumps are used for each colour and two pumps deliver paint for labelling. Furthermore, another Triton pump is installed to flush through a collector that feeds a pipeline of 25 meters.
 

INCREASED SPEED AND QUALITY

After the installation, the production speed of the facility increased and the production unit was able to lower the number of re-touch jobs. The quality of the coating surface met the production requirement and the installation of the paint kitchen helped to operate in a cleaner and much more professional working environment.

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