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News Release from: Rautomead International | Subject: RS3000/5/25 upwards-vertical copper rod caster
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 July 2004
Copper rod caster has automated cathode
feed
An upwards-vertical copper rod casting machine to be used to produce silver-bearing copper feedstock rod for extrusion operates as an integrated cathode melting, holding and casting furnace.
Continuous casting technology specialists, Rautomead International, of Dundee, Scotland, have just completed the installation and commissioning of an RS3000/5/25 upwards-vertical copper rod casting machine at AB Elektrokoppar of Helsingborg, Sweden Just like the first Rautomead copper rod casting model purchased by Elektrokoppar in 2001, this latest machine will be used to produce silver-bearing copper feedstock rod for the company's well-established Conform continuous extrusion process
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 3 Dec 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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High levels of service - commenting on the installation of his company's second Rautomead machine, Bo Samuelsson, President of Elektrokoppar Group's Bare Wire Division, said: "We operate in a very demanding market environment, where product quality and reliability are absolutely critical to our performance.
We have been highly satisfied with the performance of our first Rautomead machine and with the levels of service and support provided.
This made it an easy decision to select Rautomead as the supplier of our second casting machine." Accurate alloy composition - the new Rautomead copper rod casting machine supplied to Elektrokoppar operates as an integrated cathode melting, holding and casting furnace and has a rated output of 800kg per hour.
Integral to the design is an automated cathode feed and an automatic silver grain closing device to maintain accurate alloy composition.
The machine may be configured to produce five rods in the diameter range of 8mm to 25mm.
Surface cleanliness and minimisation of surface oxides are of key importance in feedstock for the Conform continuous extrusion process, and rod produced using Rautomead technology offers excellent performance characteristics in these respects.
Close process control - when asked about the Elektrokoppar contract, Rautomead chairman, Sir Michael Nairn, said: "It is very gratifying that Elektrokoppar have selected Rautomead for their second copper rod casting machine.
The combination of the Rautomead process, with Conform's expertise to make high quality wrought profiles, represents a very neat and elegant solution for the production of small copper-silver sections.
It also gives the manufacturer close control of the whole process sequence, from the refined cathode to the end product.".
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