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At its steel mill in Dillingen, Germany, Dillinger – one of Europe’s largest heavy plate manufacturers – has successfully implemented MALMEDIE®’s self-resetting torque limiter on their slitting shear.

Often used in the Steel- and Port-Industry: torsionally elastic claw couplings. Despite beeing technically not necessarily required, those coupling types are still popular.

With an astonishing shut-off torque of 12.100.000 Nm, the Safety Coupling protects a test bench for wind turbines against overloads in a safe and reliable way.

No matter if shredding, crushing or breaking is the task, the operators of those machines desire a robust and easy to operate technology and at the same time a reliable safeguarding against overloads.

Using a Torque-Tube (Shear-Tube) as an overload protection at the main drives of a roughing mill in the USA was, decades ago, certainly “state of the art”

Target: Reduction of downtimes after overload situations

After 30 years continuous operation of a MALMEDIE® Gear Coupling in a vertical roughing mill in Belgium, some parts needed replacement for the first time due to wear.

Nine big STS container cranes were initially equipped with competitors Drum Couplings at the Boom Hoist. After a short operational time, the first problems appeared – and the Port Operator did not issue the final acceptance of the cranes. All couplings were changed then to the original (Drum Coupling) of MALMEDIE®, and ever since the…

Together with the customer and with the aid of FEM design / simulation, MALMEDIE® developed and installed an optimized version – at full customer satisfaction.

Known as to be the first Safety Coupling / Brake based and non-hydraulic Snag Overload Protection, the SOS is reaching new sales records.