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News Release from: Rautomead International | Subject: RS 3000 upward vertical casting machine
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 03 December 2003
Upward vertical machine casts O2-free
copper rod
To produce the highest quality oxygen-free copper wire rod in a range of sizes from 8.0mm to 22mm diameter, a Vietnamese company has installed an automated upward vertical casting machine.
UK-based continuous casting technology specialists, Rautomead Internation, of Dundee, have successfully completed the installation and commissioning of an automated Rautomead RS 3000 upward vertical casting machine for the production of the highest quality oxygen-free copper wire rod by NGO Han of Vietnam The first Rautomead International machine to be delivered to and installed in Vietnam - and with an annual output of some 6,000 tonnes - the RS 3000 model has been designed to produce the highest quality oxygen-free copper wire rod in a range of sizes from 8.0mm to 22mm diameter
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 22 Dec 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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As leading manufacturers of enamelled wires and transformer strip sections, copper rod surface quality and the absence of surface oxides on the cast rod are critical considerations for NGO Han.
Consequently Rautomead was selected only after a thorough evaluation of alternative equipment on offer.
In the NGO Han installation, the Rautomead graphite furnace, acting as an integrated melting, holding and casting machine is automatically fed with Grade A copper cathode and produces 8.0mm Cu-OF wire rod at a rate of 5.0m/ min.
Each strand is produced through a single "supercooler" controlled from a central PLC.
This allows operators to select the output required from pre-programmed casting parameters, while actual operating performance is automatically monitored and recorded.
NGO Han are manufacturers of both high quality enamelled wires and transformer strip sections.
Larger diameter rods are drawn and flattened to form the strip sections, while smaller sizes of rod are drawn all the way down to the fine gauges required as magnet wire.
With over 250 installations, located across 42 countries worldwide, UK-based Rautomead International Limited, views its relationship with every customer as a long-term partnership and places equal emphasis on the quality and support of service provided as on the delivery of highly innovative casting technology.
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