New technical solutions for melting and pouring furnaces for the aluminium industry

The production of high-quality aluminium components requires the use of innovative and sophisticated melting and pouring furnace plants. Apart from the technological requirements, further reduction in energy, material, and labour costs and increasingly extensive automation and process control capabilities have become vital objectives in plant innovation. A high metal yield when melting down dross and capital scrap gets increasingly important. The paper shows how these requirements are met by several interesting developments.