Robust, heat- and dirt-resistant.
Heat, moisture and dirt – IPR knows the extreme conditions prevailing in foundry and forging areas and the resulting requirements. Our specialist teams develop solutions from design to manufacturing. Our customers include all large foundry and forging companies.
Based on decades of experience, we develop customized gripper systems for reliable and precise use in all foundry processes for a variety of materials.
We have expertise in die casting of light alloys such as aluminium and magnesium. We also apply our know-how in the handling of the salt core. Our technology allows us to remove the salt cores from the die casting machine and place them into the dies without causing any damage.
Handling, joining, inserting, removing and holding. Whether sand casting, gravity die casting or precision casting. We support all disciplines with our gripper systems – from filigree components to heavy molds. The excellent quality of our gripper systems ensures high availability and a long service life.
For you, we focus on increasing efficiency through providing robust components. When it comes to precise positioning with maximum availability, IPR forging gripper solutions are highly reliable. Even temperatures between 800°C and 1200°C are well within the capability of IPR grippers. We cover the complete range from handling workpieces to all intermediate steps leading to the finished forged parts. Our gripper systems also ensure efficient handling and removal of burrs.
The newly developed application of hot forming of blanks requires special handling systems. Specially encapsuled, insulated an heat-resistant gripper tools are required to transport the approx. 900 °C hot blanks into the molding tools. Special grippers are also required to remove the formed workpieces that are still 200°C – 250°C. We have developed a complete modular system especially for this application.
For technical specifications on heat-resistant angular grippers for hot working please contact our technical sales department.
The illustration depicts a gripper utilized for picking up blanks from a feed stack with subsequent feeding into the furnace. The blanks are picked up by means of vacuum suction cups.
The illustration shows an example of a gripper for picking up a blank that has been heated to approx. 900 °C. It is picked up from the furnace outlet and inserted it into the molding press. The blank is gripped mechanically by means of heat-resistant angle grippers.
To protect the installation and to avoid radiation losses, the hot blank is covered with a heat shield made of stainless steel. Due to the extreme temperatures, sensor monitoring of the gripper and its components is to be avoided where possible.
The illustration depicts a gripping system for removal of formed components at around 200 °C. The blanks are gripped mechanically with the heat-resistant angle grippers and removed from the molding tool. A heat shield is no longer required. The components can be monitored electrically using a heat-resistant ram tester. The mechanical grippers are also monitored with heat-resistant sensors. Depending on the system layout, the component is deposited or fed to further processes. A heat-resistant design of the components may no longer be required for subsequent tasks or handling.
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