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Cable producer to triple cast rod output
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Outotec product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
Jul 1, 2005
Expansion project of an Upcast facility will include the installation of a separate melting furnace and equipment for automatic cathode charging, as well as upgrading output.
A private Vietnamese cable producer SACOM, whose facilities are located close to Ho Chi Minh City, will expand its copper rod production capacity from 3,000 to 10,000 tonnes/year.
The company installed its 'single-furnace' Upcast continuous casting line for 3,000 tonnes/year in 2001.
The expansion project now to take place will include the installation of a separate melting furnace and equipment for automatic cathode charging, as well as the necessary upgrading required to the casting machine to match the increase in rod output rate.
The modular and 'expandable' Upcast system, which enables the cable producers to initially install a simple combined melting/casting furnace and later as output demands increase, to add a separate melting furnace for increased output, has proven to be a real success.
Sacom will now become the fifth producer to expand its originally one-furnace system into a double-furnace configuration.
The benefits of this modular capacity build-up include the start-up of own rod production with a relatively small investment cost of a single-furnace system, with the possibility to invest in the additional capacity at a later stage when the market demand so requires.
In fact, only last May Pakistan Cables had decided to go for such an upgrade, too.
The year 2005 is becoming one of the busiest years in a decade for Outokumpu's Upcast technology.
Already five orders for either totally new lines or plant expansions have been received, which total in over 50,000 tonnes/year of new rod production capacity.
Also, one unit for 7,500 tonnes/year is currently under installation at customer premises and will be commissioned and started up later this year.
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