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INDUSTRIAL FINISHING: MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEMS
SMART MOVES
Therma-Tron-X completes the finishing systems loop with
custom material handling solutions
F
or all manufacturers, the act of loading and off-loading
parts and products, as well as transporting those items
between various processes throughout a facility has
always been a laborious task, and in many cases a
known bottleneck for production. And whether it's the ultra slim
labour pool or just demand for higher throughput, the finishing
industry is swiftly shifting its focus to enhancing material
handling processes with automated solutions. And who would
know the nuances of such industrial processes better than a
designer and manufacturer of turnkey finishing systems.
Therma-Tron-X Inc. (TTX) has rapidly grown over the years
into the one-stop-shop that it is today with all design, engineering
and fabrication in-house at its 280,000-sq.-ft facility in Sturgeon
Bay, Wis. It develops finishing systems for ecoat, autodeposition,
and liquid and powder coating, but it also has an arsenal of
customisable material handling solutions.
" The root of our business is in designing and building finishing
systems, " says Tony Scoville, lead design engineer for TTX.
" But one thing that we see all the time is that the customer is
responsible for placing the product in the system. And that is
where we're seeing the need for automation, as those processes
are typically very labour-intensive. "
Depending on what the customer needs and the floorspace
available, TTX will customise a material handling solution or
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work with companies that have their own solution that they need
to optimise.
Since its inception in 1969 when it started as a custom
industrial oven manufacturer, TTX has been building material
handling systems and components to carry parts through the
paint application processes, typically on a continuously moving
chain.
" The monorail I-beam finishing system can be used for powder
coating, ecoating and liquid spray process, " says Scoville. " One
of the downsides of these older systems is that there's a lot of
equipment that goes into it. But the advantage is that production
rates are really high with the monorail as the chain is constantly
moving and you get that constant flow of product throughout
your finishing system. "

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