Manufacturing in the USA, sales and service worldwide directly and through established representative organizations, state of the art, reliable and accurate sensors and systems for steel, brass, copper, and aluminum mills. Applications include: detection, loop and strip positioning, speed, length, width, thickness, and temperature measuring. Products include: laser-based infrared hot metal detectors and loop scanners, optical barriers, time-of-flight and triangulation distance meters, long-range laser doppler velocimeter for speed and length measurement (including 0 speed), pyrometers, mill-du

AMETEK is the maker of GEMCO linear and rotary position sensors and complementary productivity enhancing products. Our programmable Linear Displacement Transducers (LDT’s) perform in extreme conditions with position feedback to .001”. Our rotary positioning products include Cam Boxes, Resolvers, and temperature compensated Mill-Duty Enclosures. Our Controllers allow seamless transfer of position data to PLC’s via backplane PLC interface cards or stand-alone ultra high speed PLS’s to monitor position, process, and output. The CATRAC high strength steel, articulating cable and hose carrier and protection system reinforces our line of products specifically designed for the metals industry.

Laser optical micrometers.

Mill-duty feedback devices such as pulse tachometers, resolvers, strip speed sensors and linear sensors.

Reliance Electrical, Gemco, Hubbell-Euclid, ASCO, Red Lion Controls, Sola, Square D, Total Control Products, Dodge, Catrac, Challenger, Josyln Clark, Gould Shawmut, Panalarm, Taylor Industrial Software, Entrelec.

Sales, service and application engineering for DELTA mill duty sensors including: DC2000 and DC3000 scanning hot metal detectors, Z series static hot metal detectors, DC2038 and Z series fiber optic hot metal detector; TS2006loop scanners; through beam and retro-reflective photoelectric and visible laser switches; pulse generators. Laser tracking through reheat furnaces. Complete measuring systems for slab length, width and positioning at reheatfurnaces.

X-ray fluorescence analysis instrument for monitoring critical metals in dusts and fumes emitted during steelmaking on a real-time basis. Data is presented in control room and helps operators monitor iron losses, slag formation, lance height and dust loading.

Strip Guiding Systems that provide the latest digital controls with bus communication. Inductive and high frequency optical sensors providing accurate center position control and edge position control for uncoilers, intermediate guides, tension reels and strip width measurement.

Automatic guiding systems for uncoilers, recoilers, and intermediate strip control. Systems specifically designed for customer applications and environments. Full service and parts facilities.

Manufacturers of Scan-A-Line noncontact measurement and sensing systems for the steel industry. Products include edge sensing, hole detection, strip neckdown monitoring, width measurement, and position sensing systems.

Custom permanent programmable marking, identification and integrated tracking systems. Laser direct marking, high temperature metal bar code tags, permanent DOT peen marking, and hot and cold ink spray systems.

Designs and manufactures on-line, non-contact measurement equipment. Laser-based equipment measures flatness, width, thickness and position of slab, strip or flat-rolled metal. Nuclear-based equipment uses x-ray and radioisotope beams to measure strip thickness and metallic coating weight of hot-dipped galvanize, galvanneal and galvalume products. 24 x 365 service and parts support.

Roll force load cells of all shapes, sizes and capacities. Strip tension measurement systems, MONOBLOC process line tensiometer systems, ACCUBAND Strip Width Gage and Crop Optimization System, ACCUSCAN Strip Scanning System, ACCUSCAN Hot Metal Detectors, ACCUPLAN Plate Outline Gage, ACCUSPEED Laser Velocimeter. Weighing systems for continuous casters and other applications. Absolute Displacement Transducers and Fluid Pressure Transducers.

Worldwide supplier of specialized measurement systems and process monitoring and control systems including mold oscillation monitoring systems and service, ladle slag detection systems, and mold taper measurement systems.

Offers a wide range of sensors and complete systems for the steel industry such as LAP Croptimizer for crop shears optimization, LAP StripCheck for combined width and thickness measurement of hot rolled strip, strip loop sensors, straightness measurement for profiles and pipes.

LaserLinc manufactures non-contact laser and ultrasonic systems for measuring inside and outside diameter and wall thickness for wire, cable, fiber, hose, tube, pipe, centerless grinding, and many other industries. The hardware pairs with LaserLinc's sophisticated, yet operator-friendly measurement/data processing package—Total Vu™ software—which runs on any Windows-based PC.

LDV-Systeme is the world wide supplier for NANOscan, a product for width measurement, whole detection and edge crack detection on cold material. The system is manufactured by NANOsystems in Bochum, Germany. There are 3 standard width ranges starting from 900 mm up to 1800 mm. Customized solutions are also possible.

LIMAB has provided the Steel Industry with high precision sensors and measurement systems since 1985. We have solutions for dimensional measurement problems in: - Continuous casters - Hot strip and plate mills - Cold rolling mills - Pickling lines - Galvanizing lines - Cut to length / Slitting lines - Bar mills - Tube mills - Section mills - Wire / Rod mills

Manufacturing, sales and service of noncontact sensors and measuring systems for the steel and material handling industries. Line of products include: pathfinder digital scanning hot metal detector, self-contained and remote hot metal detectors, trailfinder digital optical position scanner (loop scanner), laser measurement systems for laser measurement of length, width or positioning of hot or cold product as well as automated positioning of cranes, mobile equipment and machinery, laser distance meters, barrier lasers, laser data transmitters, mill duty photo-switches, long range inductive proximity sensors, industrial metal detectors and weld hole detectors.

Pulsed laser range finders for noncontact distance measurement to solid, semi-solid or many fluid surfaces such as level measurement of hot liquid metals, positioning and profiling of hot slabs, vehicle spotting (positioning)and speed plus numerous others.

Slab width measurement system – the ST200 WidthTRACKER uses two triangulation style laser sensors for utmost accuracy. Our control system is Windows based and can be linked via TCP/IP or through the level one system to transmit data. Edge profiling is an option. Other systems include slab length and speed, bearing deflection and mold powder thickness control.

Manufactures a wide range of online, non-contact X-ray and isotope thickness and density measurement systems for ferrous and non-ferrous metals including thickness measurement and coating weight gauges, instantaneous profile gauges and pinhole detectors.

Manufacturing and financing for turnkey systems. Services include project management, drive and process automation engineering, field service and training. Process expertise includes primary steelmaking, raw material handling, furnaces, casting, hot and cold mills, pipe, bar and tube mills, pickling, galvanizing, slitting and shearing lines, water treatment and HVAC systems. Product applications include motors, AC/DC high performance drives, cycloconverters, medium voltage switchgear, transformers, digital control systems, human machine interfaces, process control rooms, and networking equipme

Industrial laser-based instruments for noncontact dimensional gauging of hot or cold steel rod, bars, profiles or special shapes. Product position, monitoring, SQC/SPC data acquisition systems.