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News Release from: Cassel Messtechnik | Subject: Shark Octa SPD for logs
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 November 2007
New Cassel metal detector for use in
wood and logs
Cassel Messtechnik puts an end to alarms from surface small metal targets with its new uniform response metal detector, the Metal Shark Octa SPD
Previously the wood industry has been spoilt for choice: either it has protected machinery while rejecting valuable logs or has had to accept excessive downtime Cassel Messtechnik puts an end to this with its new metal detector: Metal Shark Octa SPD
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 11 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Conventional metal detectors cannot find metal parts of the same size throughout the log.
Example: When set up to find a bombshell inside a log, the metal detector would find tiny nails on the outside of another log which do not pose a danger to a saw or a knife.
So, actually, the log could be processed.
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When adjusted not to find these tiny nails, however, conventional metal detectors do not find dangerous metal parts inside the log that do cause damage.
Therefore, one is spoilt for choice: either one protects machinery while rejecting valuable logs or one has excessive downtime.
The new Cassel metal detector is different.
It detects metal objects of similar size outside and inside the log.
When you set it up to detect a bombshell, it detects a bombshell.
Tiny nails are not detected.
This way, only logs posing a real danger to the machinery are rejected.
The forest industry saves money because it processes and sells all valuable logs, decreases sharpening costs and reduces downtime to a minimum.
"One hour of downtime costs at least 5000 euros", quotes the technical manager of a big German panel board factory.
When being asked how valuable a Cassel metal detector is, he answers: "We could not run our OSB production line without the Cassel Metal Shark." The standard size of the Metal Shark Octa SPD is 1800x1800.
It can be supplied in other sizes and with additional options like a Xenon warning flash lamp or an acoustic alarm.
It is specially constructed for the rough environment of the forest industry.
The Metal Shark Octa SPD 1800x1800 has a homogeneous area of 1000mm in the centre of its aperture.
There it can find metal pieces the size of a metric nut M6-M8.
The sensor field is more than tenfold stronger than that of conventional metal detectors.
Hence, interference from other machinery is strongly reduced.
The metal detector comes with a control unit featuring the newest digital technology.
This is very easy to handle.
One can say that the service technician is already included.
"Once set up, the metal detector has run for three years now, without having to be adjusted again," the technical manager explains.
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