Press release - Wear resistant hopper floor swing links (MVO)

Saturday, 07 May 2011 00:00

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In-House processing services from Abraservice UK, From CAD to end product - engineered as designed

Tuesday, 22 February 2011 00:00

Steel specialists Abraservice UK, one of Europe's largest independent special steel stockholders, is well known in the market as offering full technical and material selection advice to provide customer solutions for complex applications, as well as offering a 'just in time' service to ensure a fast turnaround of products from a comprehensive stock of raw materials.

However, in addition to this, Abraservice UK also has an established in-house design, manufacturing and high quality processing facility. Abraservice UK offers a variety of processing operations for the manufacture of semi-finished or final products to OEMs and tier one subcontractors, in all their specialist materials including abrasion resistant, high impact and high yield plate steels.

The process services offered by Abraservice UK include; high-definition plasma, oxy-gas profiling, bevelling , laser profiling , drilling and countersinking , rolling and forming , machining , grinding , welded fabrication , shot-blasting and painting.

Through the use of CAD/CAM design and SolidWorks software, in-house design engineers and highly experienced operators, Abraservice UK can provide a full service from design to final precision manufactured components all to exact customer specifications, guaranteeing to customers an end product that has been engineered as designed.

The key benefit provided by this service is that customers can source components that are manufactured in specialist materials that outperform and outlast the same parts manufactured in standard steels by up to 50% and more depending upon the material utilised and the component application such as replacement bevel edges, buckets, sizing screens, trommels, cyclones, shredders and screening drums.

Abraservice UK currently supplies manufactured components that are used in many diverse and varied industry sectors, such as mines and quarries, recycling of wood, rubber, metal, glass and foundry sand, agricultural equipment, cement and concrete industries, building, construction and public works, foundry, iron and steel industries as well as waste collection and drilling and exploration.

"Our readily available stock range, combined with our capacity to process materials to a high standard, plus our flexible working patterns, ensures that customer orders are dealt with in a prompt and efficient manner, with products delivered to agreed design parameters, satisfying all customer demands and requirements" stated Nick Taylor, Sales Manager at Abraservice UK.

Endurance Contest: Suppliers Steadily Improve Wear-resistant Materials Lineup

OEMs and end users can pick from an expanding range of products, selection tools and installation techniques
By Russell A. Carter, Managing Editor

At a factory in France, a new hydraulic excavator is assembled, tested and disassembled for shipment to an Australian iron ore producer. A few thousand miles to the west, a drilling jumbo hammers away at a hardrock face underground in Canada's Sudbury Basin. At a surface mine in the Southwest U.S., a high-speed conveyor dumps thousands of tons of copper ore each day onto a transfer point. And at a nickel mine in Finland, a tweak to the profile of a gyratory crusher's wear mantle results in a 15% increase in crusher throughput.

Apart from the single obvious connection between these examples—all are hardrock related—is another: The equipment involved in each application benefits from advances in materials and techniques that protect against abrasive and/or impact wear—and future versions will likely gain even more reliability and productivity as wear materials continue to evolve and improve.

Full story in WOMP...

Name change

Saturday, 01 January 2011 00:00

IMS UK is now trading under the name of Abraservice UK. This name change brings the company in line with the European brand identity within the group, resulting from the merger of IMS Group and Jacquet Metals. Abraservice UK will operate from its current location in Birmingham. The legal entity of the company will remain as IMS UK.

Adrian Hance, divisional director says: "From an operational stand point we are the same company, with the same staff and technical expertise." The new group will be organised around four brands: IMS for engineering steels; Stappert for stainless bars; Jacquet for stainless quarto plates; and Abraservice for wear resistant and high yield steels and components.

Abraservice UK will continue to supply abrasion resistant and high yield specialist steels from accredited European steel mills.