A third AGT400 has been installed at Chicago Heights’ Esmark. The AGT400 thickness measuring system will replace an outdated GR200 for use on a 60” Stamco slitter to measure the thickness of various steel alloys with a thickness of <.135”. This service center will install two more gauges this year.
Archives for July 2016
A.G.T. and Concord Steel Address Canadian Weston 5310 Sources
A.G.T. has been awarded three new purchase orders from Concord Steel Centre Ltd. (Woodbridge, ON) to address the upcoming decertification of Weston 5310 isotope sources in Canada. The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has advised that certification of these sources, used on non-contact thickness gauges, will expire January 31, 2017. The purchase orders cover the following actions: 1) Removal, packing, leak testing and transfer to A.G.T. of two 5310 sources currently in use at Concord; 2) Replacement of an obsolete Loral 3500 isotope thickness gauge with a new AGT800 laser thickness gauge; and 3) Replacement of a 5310 source with a new AGT400 Am241 source head assembly which has already been recertified for use in Canada by the CNSC.
Five Minute Catch Up With John Fearing
John Fearing recently completed his annual week long motor cycle trip. This year he chose to ride solo and didn’t make any pre-planned stops. He rode where the wind blew him. He ran down to southern Ohio for a day of riding in his old stomping grounds of Lawrence County and dinner with his parents. Then he dropped down into central Kentucky heading west picking up parts of the Bourbon Trail. After riding through Kentucky he rode up into southern Indiana road east along the Ohio River back into southern Ohio before swinging back north to Columbus and home. Overall he covered just under 1,500 miles in five days. A nice easy no stress trip, well not entirely no stress, ask him about Bambi and wild turkey (not the drink) the next time you see him.
AGT400 Goes To Metals U.S.A.
An AGT400 has been shipped to Metals USA in Madison, Illinois. The AGT400 will upgrade their obsolete 1996 model GR200, and be used to measure the thickness on various steel alloys on their 72” Alcos slitter. This is the third Metals USA facility to switch over to Advanced Gauging for their thickness gauging requirements.
Two AGT400 Isotope Thickness Gauges Installed
Advanced Gauging Technologies has successfully completed the commissioning of two more AGT400s at USS-Posco Industries (Pittsburg, California). Both gauges were installed on a pickle line tandem cold mill (PLTCM) and are measuring steel with a thickness range of .030 to .200”. These gauges replaced obsolete Weston 3000 thickness measurement systems.