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News Release from: Outotec | Subject: Upcast 10K
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 February 2005
Continuous casting of copper rod
Outokumpu has enhanced its "single-furnace" concept significantly and has further developed its highly succesful range of one-furnace systems for the continuous casting of copper wire rod.
Outokumpu has enhanced its "single-furnace" concept significantly and has further developed its highly succesful range of one-furnace systems for the continuous casting of copper wire rod by introducing Upcast 10K The system is capable of producing rods at an hourly rate of up to 1,200kg
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 5 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Process continuously casts high quality copper rod
Comprising separate melting and casting furnaces, a continuous casting process produces highly drawable oxygen-free copper rod for fine wire and multiwire drawing operations.
Continuous cast development ups copper rod quality
Redesigning of continuous casting machine die coolers and updating and modification of the software has improved drawability and surface quality of the copper rod.
Based on furnace technology which combines the melting of copper cathodes and casting of the rods in one single, low-cost furnace configuration, the new single-furnace Upcast 10K offers a low-cost route to producing high-quality copper rods.
One specific design criteria has been the flexible lay-out configuration to enabe the plant to fit easily also into existing wire and cable plants.
The new system is based on a 10-tonne combined melting and holding furnace and an inductor rated at 500kW.
Originally the Upcast "single-furnace" concept was designed for capacities of up to 6,000 TPA, and a considerable number of orders were placed for this plant type during 1999-2003 (for example, Eletrocal, Ibrame, Caraiba Metais in Brazil and Sacom, Tran Pu in Vietnam).
In 2003 Outokumpu introduced the expanded version of this system for production rates of up to 7,500 TPA.
Since then, four such units have been ordered (of which three between November 2004 and February 2005).
The new Upcast 10K system can be built with provisions for further expansion of up to 20,000 TPA.
A fully automated cathode feed and a sophisticated servo drive based casting machine enabe the flexible and compact production of a variety of rod diameters (from 8mm up to 30mm) and the customer may choose between either orbital-shaped or layered coils.
Low production costs are ensured by an efficient induction melting system and highly automated process operations.
Negotiations for the supply of the first 10,000 TPA single-furnace unit are already underway.
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