Twice as good: The TITAN strapping machine “Twinstrap®“ ensures a secure transport of the bright steel bars from Deutsche Edelstahlwerke GmbH
By Olivia C. Rost
Metallic clanking echoes through the hall. Huge cranes swish along the ceiling. As if by magic shiny steel bars are placed on feed rollers. Hans-Joachim Abel takes a proficient look at the feed to the strapping machine while 24 massive bars are moving towards it. Steel strapping wraps itself twice around the bars in an incredible speed. The strapping head lowers, therewith fusing the strapping ends with whooshing sound. This is repeated at to further spots and then the long bars are wrapped up in a bundle