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Brush wire (airport sweepers)

Advantages

  • Good fatigue resistance and longer lifetime
  • High hardness and fatigue properties to avoid breaks
  • High corrosion resistance to last the entire season

Product description

Airport sweeper
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Modern mechanical snow and ice removal systems consist of a vehicle equipped with a plow (to first remove the snow) followed by the brush sweeper system and an air jet blower.

Crimped electro galvanized steel wire (0.45mm or 0.60 mm) assembled in wafers or cassettes.

 

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Technological features

  • Alloy
  • High carbon
  • Wires
  • Round
  • Coating
  • Galvanized
  • Hard drawn P
  • Mechanical
  • Resilience
  • Toughness
  • Fatigue resistance
  • Corrosion resistance
  • Standard
  • Industrial environment
  • White rust

Applications

  • Brush wires
  • Remove snow and ice from runways and taxiways
  • Remove rubber from runways to guarantee the needed friction levels

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Situation

Request for close contact with and tailor-made advice from Bekaert.

Solution

Bekaert teams visit customers’ plants to check on how our product is performing.

Result

Close to our steel cord customers, literally and figuratively.

Bekaert events

First upcoming event

12-Apr-2010 to 16-Apr-2010