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Hertwich Engineering to Provide Billet Production Plant for Hammerer Aluminum
03/10/2009 - Hammerer Aluminum Industries places equipment orders with Hertwich Engineering, a company of the SMS group, for their new billet production facility in Romania.
Hammerer Aluminum Industries GmbH, Austria, has placed equipment orders with Hertwich Engineering, Austria, a company of the SMS group, Germany, for their new billet production facility in Romania.
Hertwich Engineering’s scope of supply comprises two 60-tonne melting furnaces with the associated charging machine and flue-gas filter, as well as two 45-tonne casting furnaces, and a VDC casting machine. Hertwich
Engineering will also provide a continuous homogenizing and sawing plant combined with an ultrasonic inspection station.
The melting furnaces will be equipped with regenerative burners and liquid-metal pumps maximize energy efficiencies and minimize metal loss. The new facility will have an annual billet production of 75,000 tonnes.
Commissioning is scheduled for the first quarter of 2010.
SMS group is, under the holding SMS GmbH, a group of companies internationally active in plant construction and mechanical engineering for the steel and nonferrous metals industry. It consists of the two Business Areas SMS Demag and SMS Meer, which jointly form SMS metallurgy. In 2007, some 8000 employees worldwide generated a turnover of about EUR 3.0 billion.
