Carbon Steel Flying Shear Machine

When I walk a steel service center floor at shift change I hear the question: what is the coil today? Because carbon steel comes in two different skins. Cold-rolled is thin, flat and bright from the reel; hot-rolled is heavier, scaly and curved. A carbon steel flying shear machine must handle both types across widths of 850 to 1650 mm and gauges of 0.2 to 4.0 mm on coils weighing 4 to 30 tons. It must run at up to 80 meters a minute without wearing out in a year. The customer is the service center and the general fabrication shop—the place that buys mill coils and sells cut sheets to anyone who walks in. For that customer a stop‑shear cut‑to‑length line is too slow. A guillotine is too labor‑heavy so a flying shear that cuts while moving is the logical choice. As a Metal Coil Processing Machine it is expected to eat scale and rust run through two shifts and need only scheduled blade and roll changes to stay sharp. The line is built for rugged daily use. The shear head is a welded fram…