Change in the managment of Hertwich Engineering
After 25 years as managing director of Hertwich Engineering, Franz Niedermair has retired. His successor as managing director is Dipl. Ing. Stefan Pelech.
Hertwich to supply Multi-Chamber Melting Furnace to Hydro Extrusion Lichtervelde NV
Hertwich Engineering, a subsidiary of the SMS group, received an order from Hydro Extrusion Lichtervelde NV for the supply of a multi-chamber melting furnace Ecomelt-PS200 including skimming machine. The plant with a melting capacity of 60,000 tons per year will be installed in the casthouse in Ghlin, Belgium. Commissioning is scheduled for the first half of 2019.
Constellium expands aluminium casthouse capacity in Dĕčín, Czech Republic with Hertwich Engineering homogenizing furnace
Constellium Extrusions Dĕčín s. r.o., Czech Republic, has placed an order with Hertwich Engineering, a member of the SMS group, for a further continuous homogenizing plant including helical ultrasonic testing station and billet saw for aluminium extrusion billets. With a capacity of 9 tons per hour, the new homogenizing furnace is considerably larger and more powerful than the plant for 3 tons per hour delivered in 2016. It is scheduled to go into operation in first semester 2019.
Emirates Global Aluminium expands and modifies the homogenisiation capacities with Hertwich Engineering
At the turn of the year, Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) Jebel Ali, UAE successfully commissioned the fifth Hertwich batch furnace plant for the heat treatment of extrusion billets at the Jebel Ali plant. At the same time, Hertwich Engineering, a subsidiary of the SMS group, received an order for the supply of three additional batch furnaces, two cooling stations and a series of modifications to plant components previously supplied. When this order is completed in 2019, Jebel Ali will have a total of four continuous and ten modern batch homogenisation plants for the flexibly automated heat treatment of extrusion billets.
Spanish company Exlabesa to modernize its casthouse operation in La Coruña with Hertwich continuous homogenizing furnace
The Spanish company Exlabesa Extrusion Padron SL has ordered a continuous homogenizing furnace with air cooling station, long billet stacker, billet saw, semi-automatic strapping and automatic weighing station from Hertwich Engineering, a company of SMS group, for its extrusion plant in La Coruña. The plant is scheduled to start production at the end of 2018.
Aludium Amorebieta orders Multi Chamber Melting Furnace from Hertwich Engineering
The long-standing aluminium rolling mill in Amorebieta, Spain which has been operating under the name Aludium (www.aludium.com) since 2015, has ordered an Ecomelt PS-275 multi chamber melting furnace with preheat shaft for clean and contaminated scrap from Hertwich Engineering, an SMS Group company. This investment sees the plant adapting to the growing amount of recycled material available. The new multi chamber melting furnace will go into operation in spring 2019.
HAI expands homogenisation in Romania
Hertwich sets the trend for combined operation of continuous and batch homogenising furnaces
Hammerer Aluminium Industries Santana S. R. L., based in Santana, Romania has ordered a second homogenising plant consisting of two batch furnaces, a cooling station and handling equipment from Hertwich Engineering, a subsidiary of the SMS group. Commissioning is scheduled for February 2018.
Talum expands aluminium extrusion billet production
Hertwich provides second continuous homogenising plant
Talum d.d. based in the Slovenian town of Kidričevo has ordered a continuous homogenising furnace and a helical ultrasonic testing station from Hertwich. The new plant will start operation in July 2018 and will almost double the homogenising capacity of the group.
ALBA increasing aluminium smelter production by 50 per cent - Order for homogenizing equipment goes to Hertwich
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) is currently expanding its primary aluminium production capacity with Line 6 Expansion Project. Upon the full ramp-up of Potline 6 in 2019, the Company’s smelter capacity will be increased by more than 50 percent to 1.5 million tons a year. This investment will make Alba one of the largest aluminium smelters in the world.
Hertwich to supply aluminium melting furnace to Impol
Impol d.o.o. based in Slovenska Bistrica in Slovenia has placed an order for a stationary melting furnace and charging equipment for a melting rate of six to eight tons an hour with Hertwich Engineering, a company of the SMS group. It will be part of a new casting plant for rolling ingots due to start operation in May 2018.
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