Corus Northern Engineering Services
(CNES) has refurbished a 300-tonne
Kressslab carrier vehicle used for transporting steel slabs around Corus’ production site at
.
The vehicle is operated by MultiServ, the site operator at the facility. MultiServ selected CNES for the work as they had already serviced their KRESS machines over the last 15 years.
CNES structural engineers at
CNES generated a refurbishment procedure for the torque tube and discussions were held with the slab carrier manufacturer Kress in the
CNES overcame the challenge of lack of technical drawings by reverse engineering the templates for the back end side plates, which had to be formed, then profiled, before fabrication. Once delivered to
The refurbishment of the 300-tonne slab carrier was completed over a six-month time frame by CNES and MultiServ now has the carrier fully operational on site at
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