Pressure Vessels And High-Tech Rolling Solutions For Oil & Gas Industry
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A Reliable Partner for Your Wind Energy Project
Faccin Group’s Eng. Andrea Comparin, Rafael Soto, and Eng. Diego Morbini talk about the company’s Wind Towers Division, how they are helping address the challenges in wind tower manufacturing, and the future for the industry.
Faccin S.p.A. is a leading metal forming machine producer that manufactures the widest range of plate rolls, angle rolls, dished head, and special machines. In this feature, Eng. Andrea Comparin, Rafael Soto, and Eng. Diego Morbini, all senior technical sales managers at Faccin Group Wind Towers Division, talk about the company’s Wind Towers Division, how the company is helping address the challenges in wind tower manufacturing, and the future for the wind tower industry.
(From L-R) Eng. Andrea Comparin, Rafael Soto, and Eng. Diego Morbini of Faccin Group Wind Towers Division.
WHY DID FACCIN GROUP CREATE A WIND TOWERS DIVISION?
Eng. Andrea Comparin (AC): Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement goals by 2050 will require a substantial acceleration across sectors and technologies, particularly in onshore and offshore wind power generation. This sector will play a significant role by becoming a prominent energy generation source, achieving an estimated 33 percent of the total production.
This acceleration is only possible by increasing the wind capacity installation in the next 30 years, which means that the wind power industry will have to be prepared for such a significant growth. This rise of economies of scale will impact the supply chains, which have to be more competitive and technologically advanced.
The production of wind towers does not escape this reality. Should the towers continue being a tube made of several round cans of ever thicker steel plates, the taller the towers are, then, a fast and precise rolling of these cans is crucial for manufacturers to stay competitive in the years to come.
Faccin Group’s Wind Towers Division has been created with the aim to, first, deeply understand the challenges faced by the manufacturers of wind towers in this market environment; then, interface with the different areas of the group such as R&D, product design and production in the creation of technologically advanced solutions for these challenges; and, finally, to support the customers throughout the whole process of acquisition with just-on-time deliveries, operation coordination, and continuous follow-up of the project, even after completion.
WHAT CAN FACCIN OFFER TO THE HYPER COMPETITIVE WIND TOWER MANUFACTURING MARKET?
Eng. Diego Morbini (DM): With more than 30,000 units installed worldwide, Faccin is a leader in the development and construction of rolling and bending machines for steel plates. This wealth of knowledge and experience, fully supported by a worldwide network of active distributors, and a division fully dedicated to the wind tower industry, allow Faccin to quickly identify the trends and needs of the industry—which are then applied to designs; and by leveraging its vertically integrated production and cross-sector projects, to supply high-quality, cost-effective products within a short lead-time in this competitive market. This industrial proactivity and capability have earned Faccin the trust of the biggest manufacturers of wind towers worldwide.
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Outlook 2021
Experts in the metalworking industry provided their outlook for the coming year and their insights on how manufacturers should navigate whatever challenges the industry might still have along the way to recovery.
The year 2020 had been an extraordinary one, with the COVID-19 pandemic basically putting the global manufacturing industry on a standstill—at least except those essential industries that have scrambled to create medical equipment such as ventilators, and testing kits, as well as personal protective equipment including face masks and face shields.
The pandemic put into spotlight the agility and resiliency needed in every manufacturing industry, as supply chains get stuck and manufacturers are at a loss as to how to obtain their raw materials and parts.
Nevertheless, the show must go on. And as vaccines are now being developed, it won’t be long until we see light at the end of this tunnel. In this special feature, experts in the metalworking industry provided their outlook for the coming year and their insights on how manufacturers should navigate whatever challenges the industry might still have along our way to recovery.
Creaform
Simon Côté, Product Manager
The metalworking industry will continue to undergo major transformations in 2021. As customers continue to require more complex and sophisticated parts, it is becoming even more crucial for metalworking firms to implement new strategies and technologies to monitor the quality and compliance of final products—all while accelerating throughput due to demanding timelines.
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Faccin Group
Rino Boldrini, Metal Forming Machine Specialist
There is no doubt 2020 will be remembered by most as a year to forget due to the pandemic and the global uncertainty, but it will also be considered as a starting point by those that were able to adapt to the market challenges by implementing or accelerating innovation-focused plans.
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TRUMPF Asia Pacific
Chong Chee Ter, Managing Director
The outlook for the global economy in 2020 deteriorated significantly primarily due to the massive economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. In 2021, we nevertheless are expecting global GDP growth to return back to the level of 2019.
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igus
Carsten Haecker, Head of Asia Pacific
Metalworking companies across all industries have been facing increasing demands for years now—albeit some levelling was and is still visible in the current pandemic. To hold their own fortress against international competition, companies need versatile and efficient solutions for a wide variety of production tasks. One solution is the digitalization and networking of production and logistics processes—the basic technologies surrounding Industry 4.0.
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ISCAR
Eran Salmon, Executive Head of Research and Development
“Business as Usual” is constantly being redefined at ISCAR to meet the varying needs of global metalworking industries. In such a reality, innovative technologies and business opportunities emerge to meet all the challenges ahead.
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Marposs KK Japan and SEA
Marco Zoli
President
2020 has seen the COVID-19 pandemic act on top of the existing geopolitical factors and on the shift to e-mobility, with the result of accelerating the evolution of the manufacturing environment. The trend of focusing on production resilience is set to continue, resulting in a more localized supply chain and a higher concentration on global players.
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Paul Horn GmbH
Lothar Horn, CEO
Despite the restrictions predicted for 2021, most businesses have not stood still. In industries where exhibitions play a major role, it was more a question of how to bring innovations to market—especially with regard to communication. Many of the people I spoke to were initially very excited about the digital possibilities, and certainly rightly so.
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Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
Boon Choon Lim, President, Korea, ASEAN, Pacific, India
The year 2020 was characterized by virtual work and learning, as individuals and businesses reinvented themselves to maintain productivity. Optimising the digital landscape will continue in 2021, as companies embrace innovation to meet their needs.
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Sandvik Coromant
Rolf Olofsson, Global Product Manager
To stay competitive, manufacturers need to rely more on digitized processes and less manual interaction. To meet the new requirements, we need to continue to drive the development and digitalization of the manufacturing industry. Sandvik Coromant have a unique venture with Microsoft, combining Sandvik Coromant’s expertise in machining with Microsoft’s technical solutions.
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Siemens Digital Industries Software
Alex Teo, Managing Director and Vice President for South East Asia
2020 underscored two important pillars of manufacturing: adaptability and resiliency. With COVID-19 disrupting global supply chains, manufacturers need to inject their production chain with the agility to pivot and adapt to constantly changing market conditions.
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SLM Solutions Singapore
Gary Tang, Sales Director, Southeast Asia
“Change is the only constant in life” and this is characteristically so for 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Though businesses were disrupted, but in the same fast pace, opportunities arose for additive manufacturing (AM) in the medical frontline, responding quickly to severe restrictions in supply chains and traditional manufacturing bases.
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Renishaw ASEAN
Steve Bell, General Manager
Unusual times in 2020 have brough significant difficulties in all walks of life, and manufacturing is no exception. The downturn in industrial activity has been evident during these COVID-19 times—mandatory closures, disruptions to the supply chain, and the stringent social distancing regulations imposed a devastating impact worldwide including the ASEAN region.
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VDW (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association)
Dr. Wilfried Schäfer, Managing Director
The coronavirus pandemic is leaving deep scars in the German and international machine tool industry. For 2020, the VDW expects a decline in production of 30 percent. After economic data and economic indicators showed an upward trend in the third quarter, uncertainty in the economy is currently increasing in view of the second wave of the pandemic.
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Achieving Cost Reductions With Faccin-Boldrini Combo Line
Due to the high transportation costs of the supplies, long delivery times and geographic distance from the dished-head supplier, Industrias Metalúrgicas Serrano was forced to increase its products’ final price, decreasing consequently its competitiveness in the market. The company decided to establish a new long-term business strategy: the acquisition of a high-quality metal dished-head manufacturing combo line that would allow it to excel in the region offering products at competitive prices and with the quality standards required by the most prominent manufacturers of tanks nationwide.
When Industrias Metalúrgicas Serrano discussed the project with the Faccin Group, they were offered a very interesting solution that perfectly suited their long-term strategy, budget, and future benefits.
They knew about Boldrini for a very long time from word-of-mouth by other companies, and when they approached Faccin Group, the company was offered a very interesting solution that perfectly suited its long-term strategy.
During the decision process Industrias Metalúrgicas Serrano was supported by a very professional team from Faccin Group who gave them the confidence to continue with the project with excellent results.
The products proposed by the group were the Boldrini Hydraulic Press paired with a manipulator and a Faccin flanging machine, a line that gives them excellent results, so much so that its new customers highly value the quality of the final product.
Thanks to the advanced numerical control system installed on both machines, the company is seeing constant improvement in terms of the time of dished-head forming, which translates into cost reduction and, consequently, providing a product with superior quality at a more competitive value.
Industrias Metalurgicas Serrano soon hopes to make the acquisition of an even more powerful flanging machine and they do not doubt that they will trust Faccin Group again for future investments.
The Company
Faccin S.p.A. is a very powerful group which combines the best brands – Faccin, Boldrini and Roundo – in plate rolling, profile bending and dished-heads manufacturing, all united under one roof and offering the widest range of high-quality options available in the metal forming market.
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Faccin Metal Forming Taking the Middle East By Storm
Saudi Arabia, spearheaded by its national oil company Saudi Aramco, has taken the ambitious strategic decision to involve more domestic companies in the development of the country’s infrastructure and as consequence, and important flow of investment in machinery and equipment is taking place. Aramco’s goal is to purchase 75 percent of all their material needs locally by 2021. Currently at 35 percent means they are going to slightly double their purchases from Saudi businesses in the next two years.
Following suit, a large Saudi organisation, one of the first companies Saudi Aramco has worked with, has decided to appoint Faccin to supply them with three 4-rolls plate rolling machines with capacities ranging from 75mm to 125mm plate thickness for their Storage Tank and Process Equipment business sectors. These three new rolling machines have been added to a medium sized plate rolling machine they acquired some time ago.
Furthermore, a Dubai state-owned company, primarily focused on the upstream oil and gas industry has approached Faccin with another order for a new plate rolling machine for its new manufacturing facility in Saudi Arabia. The investment was driven by the need to enhance the company’s IKTVA (in-Kingdom Total Value Added) and thus ordering a 4-rolls plate rolling machine, a solution that combines power, reliability and precision in an exclusive package.
A UAE based company specialising in oil and gas, petrochemical, power and water, marine and mining industries has also selected the 4-rolls plate rolling machine during expansion of their factory.
The company has successfully hundreds of plate rolling machines installed in the region from medium thick plates to over 300mm plate thickness, covering the needs of each manufacturer and demonstrating demonstrate a prompt service support.
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CNC Control for Rolling Machines
Today, CNC controlled machines can be found in almost all industries, from small-scale metalwork shops to big manufacturing companies. There is barely any phase of the manufacturing process that is not affected by automated CNC machines. Faccin SPA, a manufacturer of plate rolling equipment, foresaw back in the early 1980’s the need of the metal forming industry to have CNC-controlled rolling machines. Article by Faccin SPA.
After a continuous research and development, the first generation of Faccin-CNC bending rolls reached the metal forming manufacturers and for more than 30 years Faccin has been offering them all the benefits of the most advanced and powerful numerical control developed for bending rolls: the PGS-ULTRA.
The first benefit offered by Faccin’s CNC PGS-Ultra is improved automation for its plate rolls. The operator involvement linked to producing workpieces can be greatly reduced or eliminated. Therefore a CNC-controlled plate roll can run unattended during most of its rolling cycle, freeing the operator to do other tasks. This gives the CNC-controlled machine user other benefits like reduced operator fatigue, less mistakes triggered by human error and a steady and foreseeable rolling time and quality for each piece.
Since the rolling machine will be running under program control, the skill level required of the operator will also be reduced, decreasing the dependability risk of the manufacturing company on a single highly skilled operator.
The CNC PGS-Ultra, built with industrial SIEMENS hardware and a perfected user-friendly graphic interface, is so simple to use that even an inexperienced operator can program the rolling machine to produce simple circular shapes of different diameters and lengths or more complex pieces like polycentric tanks, spirals for ventilators, plates of variable lengths, and many more.
Accurate Rolled Pieces
The second major benefit of the CNC-controlled plate-rolling technology is consistent and accurate rolled pieces. Today’s CNC-controlled machines manufactured by Faccin can claim unbelievable precision and repeatability of rolled pieces. This means that once a program is verified, no matter the quantity, identical rolled pieces can be effortlessly produced with precision and consistency.
A third benefit offered by the CNC-controlled plate rolling machines is flexibility. Since these machines are run from a very “easy-to-use” program, running a different workpiece is as easy as selecting it from a different shape option on the screen. Special and unique options are available in the standard configuration like the possibility to build programs for rolling variable thickness programs, calculation of the plate developed length, cycle time, etc. Once a program has been verified and executed for a production run, it can be easily recalled the next time the workpiece is to be run. This leads to yet another benefit, fast change-over.
Motion Control Feature
Finally yet importantly, a wide range of machine accessories like feeding table, plate centering, lateral and top supports, clamping devices, can be controlled with the CNC PGS-Ultra through an easy-to-use motion control feature that manages 15 programmable directions (axes) allowing the operator to configure all the accessories required in the manufacturing process of high quality rolled plates.
Since programs can be easily loaded on the CNC PGS-Ultra, a very short setup time is required and therefore plate-rolling machines become very easy to set up and run which is imperative with today’s just-in-time production requirements.
Manufacturing companies face today huge challenges, intensified pressure and the need to reduce production time, improve flexibility and increase quality with energy reduction. Faccin is ready for Industry 4.0 thanks to its Smart Package 4.0 that offers features like Systems Diagnosis, Teleservice, Management Control, Drawing Imports, Rolling and Production Lot Statistics and Flexible Network Solutions between others, helping the manufacturers of today, face the challenges of tomorrow.
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