Flender supplies gear units to Byard

Power transmission specialist Flender has supplied gear units, Siemens motors and Zapex couplings for a steel pipe welding machine destined for Australia.
Power transmission specialist Flender has supplied gear units, Siemens motors and Zapex couplings for a steel pipe welding machine destined for Australia. Glasgow based manufacturer Byard is a spiral pipe mill specialist, and recently specified Flender's heavy duty FZG gear units for the first time. Byard has made 55 of these huge machines in its 35-year history, installed around the world for steel pipe manufacture as well as for structural piling pipe.

The Australian order was received in December 2005, and was being shipped at the time of writing.

The machine is due to be operational by October 2007.

Byard's sales director Graham Wilson described why the Flender units were selected: 'We looked at performance, quality, reliability and value, and the Flender units came top on this basis'.

'We have established an excellent reputation in this very specialised field, and our customers therefore have high expectations of us.' The Flender products comprised two B4DH 08 FZG gear units fitted with Siemens 7.5 kW braked motors and two H3SM 15 FZG gear units fitted with Zapex ZWN 465 output gear couplings, Motox KF 148 primary helical/bevel gear units and Siemens 37 kW motors.

All are vertically mounted, standing 1.9 m and 2.86 m tall respectively, but dwarfed in size by the Byard machine.

Flender Zapex all-steel couplings are double-engagement, allowing for angular, parallel and axial misalignment of shafts.

They have a torque range from 1300 Nm up to 10,000,000 Nm.