Based in Airport West, in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, FLSmidth ABON is a leading manufacturer of crushing equipment for the worldwide mining industry.
Established in 1964, ABON joined the FLSmidth Group in 1998 to provide products and services used in mining operations. The main products that the company manufactures include high-tonnage and high-availability twin roll sizers, rollerscreens and chain feeders. These machines crush, screen and feed ores according to size required prior to being transported into the process plant.
FLSmidth ABON’S product lifecycle approach helps customers to reduce emissions, lower operating costs, and enhance productivity based on a unique combination of key products, process expertise and service solutions. With countless technological innovations in engineering, the company has been a leading pioneer in the minerals-handling and minerals-processing industries for more than 50 years.
FLSmidth ABON previously manufactured its shaft components on multiple machines in several set-ups, resulting in long in-process time. After extensive study of the best available tools and machinery from Mazak, working in conjunction with Iscar Australia and Ingersoll Germany, the company has completed development of a unique skiving process that was the first of its kind due to the large module size.
Utilising equipment including the Mazak INTEGREX e1600 multi-tasking machine, custom-designed Ingersoll skiving cutters and specialised tooth milling cutters, FLSmidth ABON developed the process to machine internal gear splines and external gear teeth up to module 20. With A Mazak INTEGREX e-800H multi-tasking machine, the largest INTEGREX ever manufactured for long shaft components, using customer-designed Ingersoll spline-hobbing cutters, in-process time has been substantially reduced from three weeks outsourcing to several hours.
“The increase in productivity performance and efficiency not only creates value for our customers but enables us to continually improve and control processes,” explains David Colasante, CNC Manager at FLSmidth ABON.
Growth for the resource industries is further expected due to the increasing demand in energy consumption with the economic development in Asia. FLSmidth ABON’s manufacturing facility is constantly updated with the latest technology manufacturing equipment for product innovation.
“We have achieved the largest-capacity internal and external skiving, and we intend on continuing to do it bigger and better “says FLSmidth ABON General Manager Phillip Mulcahy. “FLSmidth ABON is ideally positioned to offer customers the best solutions and will continue to contribute to mining mineral resources in the future.”