Useful information about metal

Our Swiss distributor, Hunkeler AG, has been successfully selling RUF briquetting presses for many years. With their expertise and excellent customer service, Hunkeler AG significantly contributes to the dissemination and recognition of our briquetting presses in the region.

RUF systems help MULTIVAC to streamline its chip handling processes and to recover coolants

A leading provider of packaging and processing solutions, MULTIVAC enjoys enhanced production efficiency and sustainability thanks to RUF briquetting systems. Eleven of these systems in total compress into compact briquettes about 300 tonnes of aluminium chips accumulating from this company’s milling centres. In the process, virtually all of the entrapped coolant is extracted and reintroduced to the production cycle. This simplifies the chip handling logistics, cuts coolant costs, and increases earnings from aluminium chip sales.

Comparing Briquetting and Centrifugation

What metal processing facility wants wet chips that bring along dirty work areas and container storage spaces, leading to high disposal efforts with lots of forklift traffic? Wet chips also result in a discharge of a significant amount of coolant (cutting fluid or emulsion) and low scrap returns. The solution: Separating metal chips from the coolant. But the question remains: how?

Ruf Maschinenbau offers a wide range of feeders

How to briquette metal chips properly not only depends on the press. Also the right hopper and feeder are crucial to the reliability of the process. RUF Maschinenbau has the right solution for all needs.

The year 1993 witnessed at RUF Maschinenbau the culmination of the exchange mould’s evolution from wood debris to metal chips. Just two years later, as many as ten metal briquetting systems had been sold in addition to the original wood processors. Today, RUF briquetting technology has become an integral constituent in the recycling of chips generated by the metalworking industries. A success story in the SME segment.

Video shoot with Metal Works on our press tests at RUF Maschinenbau

Recently we were able to welcome a camera team from the media platform Metal Works TV to our premises in Zaisertshofen. The background to this was an editorial video about our test pressings, which we offer free of charge and without obligation to potential new customers in our specially designed technical center. The resulting article sheds light on the procedure and processes of a pressing test, both for wood and metal.

Precision and efficiency are top priorities for Alcutec GmbH. To this end the aluminium milling specialists have installed a RUF briquetting system which presses the aluminium chips produced during production into compact briquettes. The briquetting process reduces the volume of the chips markedly and in addition clinging cooling lubricant is recovered. The result is that the production waste is much easier to handle and achieves higher prices when sold than loose aluminium chips.

The production of aluminium pressing bushes designed for the reliable sealing of pipe unions involves cutting operations that waste nearly 80% of the raw material. As a measure to maximise the yield of this valuable material, the pipe specialist Uponor has been running RUF briquetting systems in its production since 2005. According to WCO Local Coordinator Gerart Oppelt, this investment had paid off after just nine months.