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News Release from: David Brown Engineering | Subject: Girth gear for Armenia
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 March 2008
Biggest ever girth gear from David Brown
S Africa
After major investment and several recent contract wins by the South African centre of excellence, David Brown announces an order worth USD1.3M from F L Smidth Minerals for a project in Armenia
Weighing in at nearly 65,000 kilos this girth gear sets a new record at David Brown Gear Industries in South Africa The single helical SAG mill girth gear which is cast in four pieces has 362 teeth, 0.75DP, 863.6mm face width, 12.4m outside diameter and a 10.5m diameter bore
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 30 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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David Brown are also supplying three mill pinions to suit the girth gear, each having 18 teeth, 3810mm overall length, and weighing 5,090kilograms.
Servicing a complex order in remote Armenia is all in a day's work for David Brown.
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A guarantee of fast delivery and the superior quality of the finished product thanks to its partnership with castings specialist Scaw Metals and its investment in a 14m Maag gear cutting machine were just some of the other reasons why the company managed to secure this contract.
The Benoni factory boasts the largest range of Maag gear manufacturing and measurement equipment in the southern hemisphere.
But aside from the complex engineering challenges that this contract poses perhaps one of the major difficulties project is coping with the location where the equipment will be installed in Armenia.
When manufacture is complete the gear will be dismantled and shipped to its destination in four parts.
Armenia is the smallest of the former Soviet republics and is land locked by Georgia in the north, Azerbaijan in the east, Iran to the south and Turkey to the west.
The gear is being cut on the MAAG 14m gear cutting machine and the pinions ground on their newly acquired state-of-the-art 3m Niles Grinder machine.
DBGI and Scaw Metals are currently working in collaboration to finalise the gear in order to deliver it to the client on time.
The Scaw Metals involvement with this project includes supplying the castings for the job to DBGI.
The casting specifications were developed jointly by Scaw and DBGI during the past 15 years.
Investment in the most advanced machining and gear cutting technology, along with development of new materials used in the manufacturing process, has enabled David Brown to rewrite the rule book on girth gears.
The result is a radical reduction in lead times and the ability to achieve standards of accuracy to AGMA Level 13 and beyond.
Custom-designed multi-axis CNC machinery dedicated to mill gear production, temperature-controlled gear-cutting facilities, automated and optimised design and a unique carburising capability alongside induction hardening and tempering furnaces ensure David Brown retains its position at the industry's leading edge.
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