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Large Steel Coil Processor Marks
For Safety, Quality Checks
With High Legibility A Key To Success
Taylor
Coil Processing
 Lordstown,
Ohio - July 2005 - To assure customers of precise
identification for its flat-rolled steel coils
products, Taylor Coil Processing has recently
installed an efficient, sophisticated ink-jet
marking system providing extremely high legibility.
This has been particularly helpful for their
customers in the aircraft and automotive industries,
enabling them to comply with government inspection
standards. It is also critical in tracing Taylor’s
own production cycles.
Taylor,
a U.S. division of its Stony Creek, Ontario,
Canadian parent company, is a major processor
of steel coils, which are supplied to steel
producers as well as a broad range of OEMs for
further processing. Taylor’s capabilities
at the Lordstown plant include slitting, straightening,
leveling, cut to length and inspection on eight
different coil rows. With several plants in
North America and a Taiwan facility, Taylor
serves diverse flat-rolled steel markets ranging
from automotive, aircraft and appliances to
construction and manufacturing. Its processed
steel is used in automotive hoods and doors,
engine cradles and frames, refrigerators and
freezers, office equipment, tubular products
and many others.
Marking
By Design
Tied
to Taylor’s its Reel-to-Reel inspection
program, the new Matthews Marking Products International
R44 8000 Series, rack mount, ink-jet system,
was purposely designed for in-line marking at
up to five different locations across the steel
strip. Typical line speeds range from 50 to
200 feet per minute, although the 8000 is capable
of handling speeds up to 780 fpm. An encoder
wheel tracks the speed of the steel strip as
it passes through the line ensuring consistent
print quality at variable line speeds.
Identifying
its steel coil output is not a new feature of
Taylor’s operations. However, until Taylor
Coil acquired the new Matthews system, they
had not been able to achieve the desired clarity
it now can with current line speeds.
Five
Printheads
 What
Matthews is supplying with its new 5-printhead
marking system is a staggered set of printed
rows of information on the steel strip. The
printed data contains 7-codes indicating AMS,
Aerospace Material Specification, grade of the
steel. In addition, this marking displays the
steel producer and supplier, lot number, time
of production, and related information. This
appears in two lines each 1-1 1/2? high in lengths
up to 24?. All of this is specified in Taylor’s
customer contracts.
“
We have had much success with this Matthews
8000 Series system,” says Pete Adamski,
general sales manager of Taylor Coil. “It
allows us to help our customers comply with
contract directives in supplying OEMs as well
as to meet government guidelines to identify
parts.”
 Matthews
Marking Products considers its recently launched
8000 series printhead its most reliable system
thus far, achieving more uniform, high quality
marks at faster speeds for particular identification
assignments and for flexible and simple operation.
All 8000 series printheads are enclosed in a
slim-line housing that permits easy installation
at a higher industrial protection rating. It
is recommended for both porous and non-porous
substrates and includes metals and galvanized
steel, plastics, packaging, wood, building materials
with dye or pigmented ink formulations. The
device has dynamic message storage memory of
up to 400 characters per line of text and as
many as 200 messages, the company states.
Sources:
Taylor Coil Processing – Pete Adamski
– telephone 330-824-8600
Matthews Marking Products – Michelle Spaulding
– telephone 412-665-2488
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