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customer is a further indication of our quality,
spirit and dedication to our systems.
Importantly, we ensure that safety and
reliability of our machines are in-built and
critically linked. A reliable machine cannot be
unsafe, and a safe machine cannot deliver a
low productivity for customers. All of our machines
are therefore supplied with automatic
controls that maximise their reliability and the
safety in operation.
How important are new ideas, innovations
and developments to Turla, in both technology
and business?
Turla’s main thrust in design work involves
continuous improvement of our existing machinery
range. Regular interfacing between
our own engineers and customers provides
vital feedback for us to understand how machines
can be improved and even more closely
aligned to individual customer needs. Overall,
the most significant innovations in the
past ten years have centred on three products
that have been very well received
by the extrusion industry:
Turla’s STeP 5 gas-fired billet
heater offers the lowest gas consumption
and atmospheric pollution
levels possible worldwide:
This heater, with a proved thermal
efficiency of 81%, is by far the
most efficient device of its type
on the market in terms of operational
costs, maintenance and CO 2
pollution. Our customers have to
deal every day with rising energy
costs and new carbon taxes that
clearly disadvantage less efficient
extrusion plants where old and
excessively polluting equipment is
in operation. We have been frequently chosen
in recent years by customers looking for
products to help them in dramatically reducing
their environmental impact. In just one example,
a STeP 5 billet heater installed to replace
an old heater has resulted in a reduction of
CO 2 emissions of around 380 tpy, equivalent
to a reduction in emissions from 150 medium-size
cars! This figure clearly illustrates the
huge potential for lowering atmospheric pollution.
The Turla website – translated into English,
Russian and German languages – enables all
customers to calculate the annual tonnages of
CO 2 emissions that can be avoided by installing
a Turla STeP 5 in their extrusion lines.
Intensive quench QAH Air / Water spray:
Over the past decade this equipment has been
installed with success in the most advanced
extrusion facilities in Europe, where the production
focus is mainly on automotive profiles.
This machine, greatly appreciated for its high
Flying cut double puller, model DPC-TV
cooling power and flexibility, using both water
spray and air, is designed to suit the most demanding
cooling cycles required by specified
profile tolerances.
Extrusion press: The recent order from
Nordalu, a plant in the Hermann Gutmann
Group Neumunster, Germany, marks the start
of Turla’s penetration in central Europe, including
the supply of extrusion presses. The
Turla 18FR7 model, denoting 18-MN press
force with front-loading design and 240 bars
for 7-inch billets, requires no special foundations
since there is no force on the ground due
to precise engineering design and tolerances.
All main parts are forged and the whole machine
is delivered pre-stressed to the customer.
The press will be equipped with the Turlaengineered
‘Eco + Logic’ package which delivers
a considerable energy saving of some
90,000 euros worth of electricity per year.
Only the energy required for extrusion will
be used, the rest will be saved as a result of
a smart software program entirely developed
by Turla through five years of investigation in
SW development.
All systems will be fully pre-installed at
Turla: the STeP 5 , the HLS-7 hot billet saw and
18FR7 extrusion press model will be fully assembled
at the company’s Brescia facility in
early 2014. Hot profiles will actually be extruded
in the works, prior to shipment of the
machinery to the customer in Germany for
on-site installation. Turla is also organising a
‘Press Open Week’ at this time, when interested
world-class extruders will be invited to
attend.
Does Turla enjoy any special partnership
relationships with its extruder customer
base?
Leading extrusion operations have recently
chosen Turla as partner for their most strategic
projects. Orders from such well-known
companies as Constellium Singen and Nordalu
in Germany, Hydro Nenzing
in Austria, Sapa Profiles Kft in
Hungary and Bonnell Aluminum
in the United States, show clearly
that high technology extruders
are seeking high technology suppliers.
But, one of the things that
we pride ourselves on even more
in our day by day business is that
our customers return to us for every
new project, and this is absolute
proof of true customer satisfaction.
We are really proud to have customers
that have purchased our
products repeatedly for more than
25 years. In some factories it is easy
to see, in the space of just a few
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