Draxton Brno s.r.o. Rotator for the hardest conditions

Draxton Brno s.r.o. is a foundry with a long tradition. It was founded in 1932 in Brno, the second-largest city in the Czech Republic, and has been part of Draxton, a global manufacturer of cast and machined components for the automotive industry, since 2018.

The foundry with around 200 employees in the south-east of the Czech Republic - around 50 kilometres from Vienna - has an annual production capacity of 37,000 tonnes and operates two Disamatic production lines for vertical moulding.

Task

Pick-up of ladles for loading and unloading liquid cast iron directly at the melting furnace

Challenges

Design, production and delivery of an attachment suitable for long-running, hard use in a foundry - heat, dust, etc.
Convincing customers of KAUP quality.

Solution

Rotator 5T391.2G - foundry version and Hook-on 6T180 with reinforced bottom brackets - suitable for Kalmar DCE 80-9
- Technical description:
  - Width Fork carriage plate: 1,350 mm
  - Sideshift: +/- 160 mm
  - Lost load: 275 mm
  - ISO class: 4
  - Load capacity 6,000 kg at 600 mm l.c.
- Components of the foundry version include, e.g.:
  - closed fork carriage plate
  - closed base plate
  - heat-resistant covered hydraulic tubes

Customer:

The Czech company Draxton Brno s.r.o. is one of Draxton's 15 production sites, which are spread across six countries on three continents. The company mainly supplies the automotive industry with its products.

Head Office: Brno, Czech Republic
Branch: Metals industry
Website: draxton.com

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