Enerpat ED-600 Copper Chip Wringer: A Smarter Way to Reclaim Oily Swarf

Enerpat ED-600 wringer tackles oily copper chips: 97%+ dryness, 1.3 t/h, fully automatic. Reclaim cutting oil, cut smoke & emissions during remelting, improve melt purity.

**The Customer**
A leading new materials company specializing in high‑performance copper alloys, this manufacturer focuses on the R&D and production of high‑strength, high‑conductivity copper alloy products. Their portfolio includes end rings, conductor bars for traction motor rotors, and cast ingot materials.

**The Challenge**
Day‑to‑day machining generates large volumes of copper chips soaked in cutting oil. The oil drips and spreads across the shop floor, creating slippery surfaces, slip hazards, and a heavily contaminated work environment that hurts both the company’s image and its shop‑floor management. Equally critical, oil‑laden copper swarf cannot be directly re‑melted: feeding it straight into the furnace causes the cutting oil to vaporize and burn, producing dense smoke and hazardous emissions. This not only breaches environmental rules and endangers the workplace but also compromises melt purity and final product quality. On top of that, the traditional manual or makeshift methods used to remove the oil were slow, labor‑intensive, and expensive—wholly unable to keep pace with high‑volume, continuous production.

**Enerpat’s Solution**
After diving deep into the customer’s pain points, Enerpat’s engineers promptly visited the site, studied the material characteristics and process requirements first‑hand, and tailored a solution around the **ED‑600 Automatic Metal Chip Wringer**.

- **High‑capacity centrifugal de‑oiling**
The ED‑600 is designed for continuous, high‑throughput processing of various metal chips, including copper. With PLC and touchscreen control, operators can fine‑tune spin‑dry cycle times to suit their exact needs. The result is outstanding oil recovery, and the processed chips consistently reach a dryness level above 97%.

- **Fully automated operation**
The entire sequence—feeding, de‑oiling, and discharging—runs automatically without any manual intervention. Compared with conventional semi‑automatic equipment, production efficiency jumps by more than 80%, while labor requirements are slashed by over 70%.

- **Robust and reliable**
Built with premium core components and subjected to stringent quality inspection and performance testing, the ED‑600 delivers long service life and exceptional stability, giving the customer a rock‑solid link in their continuous production chain.

**The Results**
The ED‑600 copper chip wringer completely resolved the customer’s oily swarf headache. It easily handles 1.3 tonnes of copper chips per hour, de‑oiling them to over 97% dryness—fully meeting the company’s environmental compliance targets. When the cleaned chips go back to the furnace, smoke and harmful off‑gas emissions are dramatically reduced, making the melting operation both safer and cleaner. With loading, de‑oiling, and unloading all fully automated, the customer has realized a genuinely safe, green, and highly efficient production process—exactly what they set out to achieve.

**Customer Testimonial**
*“Working with Enerpat exceeded our expectations and solved our core problem at its root. We didn’t just get a high‑performance, perfectly adapted ED‑600 system—we also experienced outstanding solution expertise and truly attentive service. Enerpat helped us build a safe, highly efficient, and fully automated operation, and they are a long‑term partner we can genuinely trust.”*