EbnEr. Journal for Progress in Industrial Furnace Technology.

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EbnEr. Journal for Progress in Industrial Furnace Technology.
HICON
Volume 24. Issue 01. / March 2015. www.ebner.cc
Ebner. Journal for Progress in Industrial Furnace Technology.
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Only the best for
our customers.
Dear business partners,
Dear employees,
EBNER's customers, many of whom have become long-term
and loyal partners over the past decades, always get exactly
what they expect from EBNER.
Focus listening, understanding the task, experience and
expertise, and cutting edge solutions.
No matter how complex and challenging the requirements,
EBNER delivers unique tailored solutions to its customers.
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Only the best for our customers.
EBNER.
Robert Ebner.
CEO.
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Highest quality only.
HICON/H2® bell annealer facility.
Steel wire coils.
Usha Martin. India.
We hear our customers.
EBNER's newly-founded
Customer Services department.
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Partners in market leadership.
HICON/H2® bell annealer facility.
Steel wire coils.
SeAH Special Steel Limited. South Korea.
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We work tirelessly to ensure that EBNER customers and partners
always have a real advantage over the competition.
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The new Customer Services department, which has evolved out of
EBNER's long-standing service team due to market demand, is yet
another component of our customers' successful futures.
Every day, we at EBNER channel our enthusiasm for new ideas,
precision and reliability into the development of cutting-edge
technologies to help our partners succeed.
This makes me, personally, very proud, and I gladly thank our
customers for their loyalty and our employees for their dedication.
Enjoy reading this issue!
Robert Ebner
CEO
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This issue of the HICON Journal features examples of intense,
close cooperation helping our customers establish themselves
and flourish on the world markets.
The focus of our daily work is using EBNER's own R&D to continually
be ready to offer our partners innovative and efficient heat treatment
technology solutions.
Steel
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No time to lose.
HICON® roller-hearth furnace.
Aluminum plates.
Amag. Austria.
Aluminium
Steel
Stahl
U.S. Auto Demands More.
EBNER USA.
Alcoa, Novelis, Tri-Arrows Aluminum,
Constellium.
High tech tracks in the sand.
HICON® pusher-type furnace facility.
Aluminum ingots.
Ma'aden. Saudi Arabia.
Stahl
Aluminum
30 years of high tech.
Hardening and tempering line.
HICON/H2® bell annealer facility.
STAHLWERK Unna. Germany.
Smooth work.
HICON/H2® bell annealer facility.
Steel strip coils.
Avon Ispat and Power Limited. India.
Steel
Aluminum
Aluminium
Steel
Stahl
Aluminum
Aluminium
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Helmut LuX.
EBNER news
from India.
Usha Martin, the Indian steel wire manufacturer, has
proven it again: top products are the key to moving
toward the top of the market. And production facilities
play no small part in this success. Usha Martin, an integrated steelworks, has trusted in an EBNER HICON/H2®
bell annealer facility in its Jamshedpur plant since 2011.
Comprising a workbase, a heating bell and a cooling
bell, this facility replaced part of a competitor's facility
and has since been recrystallizing and spheroidizing
material with a maximum monthly throughput of 1100 t
(1212 USt).
"The advantages were obvious to Usha Martin: increasing production efficiency while at the same time
lowering costs, a pretty common requirement," Senior
Sales Manager Helmut Lux says. Additionally, the good
reputation of EBNER annealing furnaces speaks for itself in the industry, doing its part to sell the product to
those who value quality. "Usha Martin's years of experience and the technological quantum leap provided by
the switch to HICON/H2® annealing technology have
combined, resulting in products of unparalleled quality," says Lux. No wonder that the Indian wire manufacturer's products can be found in the very demanding
fastener industry.
An investment was also made in an eco-friendly
method of the descaling wire. Lux explains, "Due to
environmental concerns, Usha Martin was interested
in an alternative to the pickling process for descaling
Highest
quality only.
that is common in Europe. Engineers and metallurgists recommended a mechanical process. The idea is
to blast the surfaces of the wire coil with an abrasive
before heat treatment, in order to achieve a perfect
annealing result."
Lux tells us about a further benefit that Usha Martin
has gained by working with EBNER. "We provide European fabrication quality and European safety standards
for the whole world. With HICON/H2® technology, the
company is able to achieve export quality, which is
allowing them to access whole new markets." A great
opportunity for the company; after all, Usha Martin has
been one of India's top wire manufacturers for years.
Direct order placed with EBNER India.
Customer satisfaction can often be gauged by followup orders. In Usha Martin's case, EBNER India received an order directly from the customer for a coil carrier tipper for the wire coils. This confirms the customer's trust in us as heat treatment specialists, and the
customer is happy to be able to pay in Indian rupees.
A future-oriented win-win situation.
If you go looking for a tiger, don't be surprised to find one.
If you invest in EBNER industrial furnaces, don't be surprised
to find highest performance technology. See Jamshedpur,
the steel capital of India, for an example.
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USHA MARTIN. INDIA.
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"We
hear our
customers "
EBNER's newest department, Customer
Services, has set itself the goal of knowing
what the customer wants before he does –
worldwide. Bernhard Dellekart, Executive Vice
President Customer Services, tells us about
expertise, service contracts, and why the term
"After Sales Service" has outlived its usefulness.
HICON®: Highest customer satisfaction has always
been EBNER's top priority. What will the Customer
Services department focus on?
Dellekart: Our department's task is clear: we want
to take care of our customers throughout the service
life of the facility, i.e. from the end of the warranty all
the way until it is retired. On the other hand, we see
it as our duty to be proactive about our customer's
needs. The future-oriented approach to technology that
EBNER excels at allows us to be flexible in adapting to
the demands of the market. Our ambition: To hear the
customer's call before he even picks up the phone.
HICON : A new department often means
new employees. But not in this case.
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Dellekart: That's right. The employees are the same,
so all that expertise is retained under the new umbrella
term "Customer Services". Customer Services includes
the former Service and Spare Parts departments and the
newly-created Upgrade & Rebuild team. This new structure makes it possible for our colleagues' expertise to be
used more efficiently.
HICON®: A lot of customers will be wondering
if this offer is limited to European locations.
Customer Services made in Austria – just for Austria?
Bernhard Dellekart
Executive Vice President, Customer Services
HICON®: Mr. Dellekart, why "Customer Services"?
Why not just "After Sales Service"?
Dellekart: Customers all over the world understand the
term "Customer Services". In our industry, this is the
established term in both English and German. Terms
such as After Market Business and the like have become
obsolete over the years and don't quite express the
right idea to the customer anymore. For EBNER, there
is no "After Sales Customer". The customer is always
the customer, and EBNER provides tailored solutions
and services.
HICON®: Tell us about more about
how EBNER services facilities.
Dellekart: At the moment, our customers contact us
when the need arises. Longer term contracts are very
advantageous for our customers. Currently, we are
introducing 3-year service contracts, which we will actively be offering our customers in the next few months.
Of course, the options will be expanded in time. I am
especially confident in the potential for new products
and solutions in the Upgrade & Rebuild area. As stated,
our goal is to know what our customers need before
they do.
HICON®: Thank you for your time.
Dellekart: Quite the opposite! We want all of our
customers to benefit from this department, worldwide.
Because we know how important trust between customers and suppliers is, the customer's contact person
will be the same as ever. The new department will optimize the synergies at our subsidiaries in America and
China as well as our global service locations.
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EBNER. CUSTOMER SERVICES.
EBNER. CUSTOMER SERVICES.
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Partners in market leadership.
SeAH Special Steel of Korea has been a big player
among wire producers since 2001. Since starting to
work together with EBNER, the company has risen
to become national market leader.
Franz Wiesinger.
EBNER news from
South Korea and China.
The customer/supplier partnership between SeAH
Special Steel Ltd and EBNER as the technology leader in heat treatment furnace facilities has been going
strong for 14 years. This relationship has recently been
strengthened with two more projects: a new facility in
the Chinese port of Tianjin, as well as the expansion of
an existing bell annealer facility in Chungju, Korea.
Senior Sales Manager Franz Wiesinger sees these
orders as underscoring the world-class quality of
EBNER products. "The high performance of EBNER
facilities, the future-oriented technology and the continuous adaptation to the evolving needs of the market
convinced the customer to work with EBNER yet again.
That's something we can be proud of," said Wiesinger.
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SEAH SPECIAL STEEL LIMITED. SOUTH KOREA.
New: facility in northern China.
In September 2008, POS-SeAH Steel Wire installed
an EBNER HICON/H2® facility in Nantong in southern
China. In order to better serve the northern Chinese
market, the Korean joint venture between the steel
giant POSCO and SeAH Special Steel placed an order
with EBNER for a gas-fired bell annealer facility. In the
first phase, 2 workbases, a heating bell and a cooling
bell were installed.
The HICON/H2® bell annealers with a charging diameter
of around 4 meters (13') and a charging height of nearly
5 meters (16'5") were commissioned in 2014. They have
since been heat treating cold heading grades and bearing grades to the customer's fullest satisfaction. And
that's no coincidence. EBNER's philosophy of being the
technology leader for heat treatment furnace facilities is
easy to see, says Franz Wiesinger. Literally! "The improvement in material quality thanks to HICON/H2® annealing technology is visible to the naked eye!" In addition to
the significant reduction in operating costs, this is another competitive advantage for the Korean customer.
Seamless integration.
Another one of EBNER's strengths is seamless integration into existing processes. For example at the facility
installed in Chungju, Korea, in 2008. "This bell annealer
facility was expanded from 10 to 12 workbases without
stopping production without any major setbacks," Wiesinger reports.
The excellent customer/supplier relationship between
SeAH Special Steel Ltd and EBNER must also be mentioned. Both parties highly value this relationship, a fact
proven not just by reviewing past orders. "Another follow-up order has already been placed to expand both
Chinese facilities by one base each. SeAH Special
Steel Ltd. plans to continue trusting 'Made by EBNER'
products in the future," Franz Wiesinger says proudly.
Another advantage for both partners.
SEAH SPECIAL STEEL LIMITED. SOUTH KOREA.
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No time to lose.
EBNER industrial furnaces are found all around
the world. But these high tech heat treatment
facilities are also in demand in the comparatively
small domestic market. Such as at AMAG Austria
Metall AG in Ranshofen, Austria.
bernhard
ennsbrunner.
EBNER news
from Austria.
In 2007, EBNER delivered its second HICON® rollerhearth furnace for aluminum plates to the northern
Austrian aluminum plant. Five years later, in February
2012, AMAG's supervisory board decided to expand
the existing plant, which opened the door for a new
collaboration between EBNER Industrieofenbau and
AMAG. The construction of the new and significantly
larger hot rolling mill, together with an increase in plate
production capacity, necessitated a facility with higher
throughput. "With this expansion, AMAG wanted to
strengthen their position in a steadily growing market
for specialized aluminum products. EBNER managed
to nearly triple throughput capacity," Sales Manager
Bernhard Ennsbrunner says of the impressive increase.
ring that the existing parts that were earmarked for
reuse were carefully dismantled and reinstalled in the
new building in perfect condition. During this dismantling and reinstallation phase, the HICON® roller-hearth
furnace facility was expanded to 6 furnace zones while
the safety systems were brought up to the current stateof-the-art," Sales Manager Ennsbrunner explains.
Expansion work day and night.
The hardware, however, was not EBNER's only challenge: the record-breaking pace at which the work had
to be done was another factor. AMAG required the
downtime to be as short as possible, demanding careful logistical planning and execution. "In this exceptional situation, up to 40 installation technicians at a
time were split between working on dismantling in one
building and simultaneously reinstalling in the other
building. This allowed us to finish moving the existing
facility within an extremely short period of time," Enns-
brunner says of the work that took place in Fall of 2013.
At times, people were working nights and weekends,
quite a challenge for EBNER. Of course, the project
went off without a hitch and AMAG was able to start
production back up after just one and a half months.
"It was a pretty hectic time for us all, but we were able
to fulfill all of the customer's requirements, that's what
makes a market leader," Ennsbrunner explains.
The next expansion phase at AMAG is already in the
planning stages. "A cold rolling mill will be part of the
next phase. And EBNER is in the running again to provide the heat treatment facilities," Ennsbrunner reports.
To do this, the roller-hearth furnace which had been
installed in 2007 had to be dismantled and reinstalled
again with its modifications in a completely new building, with a few challenges. "One challenge was ensu10
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AMAG. AUSTRIA.
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Proven hardening and tempering designs combined with new
technologies strengthen new plant in Bönen, Germany.
Stahlwerk Unna, one of the leading manufacturers of drawn steel
as well as cold-rolled and hardened quality steels and stainless
steels, has been supplying customers in the automotive,
tool, construction, spring, paper and textile industries
for more than 100 years. Modern heat treatment
furnace technology from EBNER helps our
long-standing customer.
30 years of high tech.
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STAHLWERK UNNA. GERMANY.
STAHLWERK UNNA. GERMANY.
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karl wohlfart.
EBNER news
from Germany.
The independent and family-owned companies Stahlwerk Unna and EBNER Industrieofenbau have been
working together for nearly 30 years. In 1987, a modern
EBNER hardening and tempering line for martempering carbon steel strip was commissioned at the Unna
plant. Based on good experiences with this facility, two
additional facilities were ordered from EBNER within
the next few years. All three lines were equipped with
a molten metal quench for 2-stage cooling of the austenitized strip.
When the company was taken over by Mr. Christian
Köhler (Dipl.-Ing.) in 2011, his first project was to build
a new plant from the ground up in Bönen (about 20
km from the old location) and move all of the equipment from Unna to Bönen within the next three years.
At the same time, the new management was aware
that long-term economic security for the new location
would require investment in state-of-the-art annealing
and H&T technologies.
This universal furnace is also backwards compatible
with the older EBNER H&T lines. This made it necessary to make the furnace an autonomous system with
its own electrical control system and to designed it to
be used from both sides.
HICON/H2® bell annealer facility
to anneal steel wire coils.
This facility comprises one workbase with a gas-fired heating bell and an air-cooling bell and is used
for recrystallizing and spheroidizing steel wire coils
in hydrogen or nitrogen atmosphere. The effective
workload space diameter is 4250 mm (13'11") (cylindrical baffle) and the stack height is 3600 mm (11'9"). The
option of expanding the facility by a second workbase
at a later time to increase throughput has been provided for in the facility layout. Since only one base is in
operation at the moment, the heating bell is parked on
an insulated base when not in use to conserve energy.
Another advantage for the customer!
The same year, late 2011, EBNER received an order for
a modern hardening and tempering line to produce martensitic steel strip, as well as a gas-fired HICON/H2® bell
annealer facility to heat treat steel wire coils.
Hardening and tempering
line for steel strip.
For the first time, EBNER delivered a facility which can
martemper and harden carbon steel strip up to 500 mm
(19.7") wide and up to 2 mm (0.08") thick, completely
without the use of lead.
The austenitizing furnace is a classic gas-fired muffle
furnace design. To reduce energy consumption, the
combustion air is preheated by the hot stack gas
coming from the furnace in a heat exchanger. The steel
strip coming out of the hardening furnace is cooled in
EBNER's HICON/H2Q® hydrogen quench instead of the
traditional lead quench. Hydrogen is also used as a process atmosphere throughout the furnace and quench
sections. The subsequent martensite transformation
is carried out in a gas-tight die unit. The downstream
leveling and tempering sections are electrically heated
for better controllability. A universal furnace was supplied along with this facility, and has been designed to
be used for many different applications:
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STAHLWERK UNNA. GERMANY.
Both facilities were successfully commissioned in 2013.
We would like to express our thanks to the whole Stahlwerk Unna team for their excellent cooperation during
the implementation of these two projects, as well as
for the innovative spirit and trust in modern technology
from EBNER.
as a pre-heating section to increase the
throughput of the hardening furnace
as a bluing furnace for targeted oxidation of the
material in air after hardening and tempering
as a bainite transformation section
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BJ Austin.
With the introduction of the aluminum body Ford F-150
in 2015, the U.S. is leading the rest of the world into an
era of high-volume aluminum use for light-weighting
automobiles. Supply commitments for aluminum sheet from
U.S. auto manufacturers of seven years or longer are already
transforming the four largest U.S. producers: Alcoa, Novelis,
Tri-Arrows Aluminum, and Constellium – all EBNER customers.
EBNER news
from the USA.
Driven by increased U.S. Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) standards and annual increases targeting
a 50% reduction in tailpipe emissions by 2025, the
light-weighting transformation started for Ford almost
5 years ago. Ford's extensive planning for design changes and manufacturing retooling culminated in a yearlong conversion and roll-out. This included an impressive total changeover at its Dearborn Truck Plant from
welding technologies for steel to robotic joining technologies for aluminum. As with everything automotive,
completion was Just-In-Time (JIT) for the start of F-150
production. The upstream transformation of rolled aluminum production has grown over the last couple of years
JIT to meet the F-150 and other upcoming demands
for more aluminum from U.S. auto manufacturers.
U.S. Auto Demands More.
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EBNER. USA.
EBNER. USA.
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Why are supply commitment
contracts out to 2020 required?
First, there is potential for explosive growth of aluminum sheet demand. Do some quick math for only
the first high-volume U.S. model, the F-150, with
expected sales of ~800,000/yr and ~600lbs (270 kg)
of aluminum sheet body parts that each requires. The
number makes it easy to believe predictions by Ducker
Worldwide, a leading auto market consultancy, calling
for an increase in the billions of pounds. Second, there
isn’t the excess capacity in rolled aluminum that there
is in steel. Finally, there is a relatively long (e.g., Ford’s
five-year) implementation cycle for automotive production including bringing the aluminum supply online JIT.
Based on these contributing factors, the case for longterm supply commitments becomes apparent.
Production capacity for aluminum rolled products—
as well as design change, manufacturing retooling,
and market acceptance—currently limits the speed of
industry-wide adoption. The main production bottleneck at rolling mills is heat treating capacity. Compared to limited heat treatment needs of more traditional can and rigid packaging products, ~70% of auto
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body sheet requires heat treatment. Additionally, cost
effective processing to make the 6000-series alloy
sheet 50% stronger requires high-speed, continuous,
and precise heating for the heavier gauge, wider sheets
unlike batch processing for most traditional products.
This is followed by rapid quenching using water spraying and must ensure a high quality surface finish. Of
course, this also means that coil production must keep
pace with continuous sheet processing. So, aging
batch pre-heating equipment is giving way to the higher throughput of semi-continuous, pusher-type furnaces. EBNER's expertise with high throughput continuous and semi-continuous heat treatment facilities
adds value for its customers.
As a trusted partner of the largest U.S. aluminum producers, EBNER has been supporting the efforts of
each to increase production at key rolling mills with its
pusher-type and floater furnace facilities. Supporting
Ford’s inauguration of the aluminum body F-150 were
investments in EBNER heat treatment technology by
Novelis at its Oswego Works and by Alcoa at its Davenport Works as documented in previous HICON Journal
issues (Nov. 2013 & Mar. 2014). A second round of
EBNER. USA.
investments in EBNER heat treatment technology are
in play now with Alcoa at Tennessee Operations, Novelis at Oswego Works, and Constellium at Ravenswood
and Bowling Green.
Customers count on the throughput and energy efficiency at the heart of EBNER’s designs. And each
time, these customers also called on EBNER to deliver
"Perfect Technology for Unique Solutions". "Unique",
for one, meant designs with energy efficiency and
fast cycle times, which lead to added energy savings
by material arriving at the rolling mill with very homogenous temperatures.
For a different project, "unique" was the designing
the longest floater furnace and a mechanism to aid in
steering the floating sheet. "Unique", for another, was
a floater furnace solution integrated at the top of a continuous sheet processing line. This line additionally had
the capability to minimize line preparation by changing
furnace settings to ensure maximum consistency of
each material coil.
For yet another, "unique" was providing a pusher furnace with entry and exit ingot handling that fit a space
once occupied by an outdated, inefficient furnace.
Working with customers to help them get the most out
their investments in heat treatment facilities and delivering technology, innovation, and quality sets EBNER
apart from the competition.
The market trajectory mentioned earlier points to more
U.S. aluminum rolling mill investments on the horizon
to expand hot-mill and rolling capacity for automotive.
And…EBNER will be there to ensure the success of its
customers.
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Smooth work.
Helmut LuX.
EBNER news
from India.
An Indian company with a rich history, Avon Ispat &
Power Limited specializes in manufacturing cold rolled
strips for bicycles, rims and auto components and has
over time become one of the largest suppliers in bicycle industry. Of course, only the best raw materials and
production facilities are used.
The first collaboration between EBNER and Avon Ispat
was in 2011, when EBNER installed a HICON/H2® bell
annealer facility in the Ludhiana plant, comprising two
workbases with one heating bell and one cooling bell.
Senior Sales Manager Helmut Lux recalls the special
demands Avon Ispat had of the new bell annealer facility. "This HICON/H2® bell annealer facility was a special
challenge for our engineers. Best microstructure uniformity and a totally smooth surface finish are required
for further processing steps. Annealing such a smooth
surface without sticking was a requirement," says Lux.
Thanks to EBNER's technological expertise, the facility
was able to be designed and installed exactly per the
customer's wishes.
This technological feat had serious consequences – in a
good way. Just two years after the facility was installed
by EBNER, a follow-up order was received to expand
the facility by an additional two bases, which have been
in operation since 2014. About 64,000 t (70,500 USt) of
steel strip coils are recrystallized in this facility every
year. One HICON/H2® workbase has nearly twice the
throughput of one of the workbases of a competitor's
facility.
Unusual heating system.
Another unique aspect of Avon Ispat's HICON/H2®
bell annealer facility is its heating system: it runs on
oil. "Only about 2% of EBNER's industrial furnaces
use so-called black gold as fuel for the heating sys-
tem," Senior Sales Manager Helmut Lux reveals. But
this challenge, too was successfully mastered. When
it comes to innovation and future-oriented technology,
EBNER's in-house R&D department allows us to be a
flexible, expert partner.
Good relationship.
"Avon Ispat is a classic case of a customer that starts
small and keeps expanding because of good experiences. There is no greater compliment for our products,"
Lux explains. He personally attends the meetings on
site in Ludhiana and emphasizes the excellent partnership between Avon Ispat and EBNER.
EBNER heat treatment furnace facilities are individually
designed and installed for each customer. The Austrian
furnace manufacturer mastered new challenges for
privately-owned customer Avon Ispat & Power Limited.
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avon ispat & Power Limited. indiA.
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High tech tracks in the sand.
Thinking of Saudi Arabia probably conjures up
images of oil fields and endless sand dunes, not
world-class state-of-the-art production facilities.
But 205 km from the Gulf port city of Dammam, in
the middle of nowhere, lies a gigantic aluminum
plant that is unrivaled.
Incredible dimensions.
Robert Schmidt says the aluminum plant definitely
sticks in his mind, especially the in-house production of
aluminum. "The mine which supplies Ma'aden with the
Robert Schmidt.
EBNER news
from Saudi Arabia.
As if this were not enough, a harbor was also built as
a part of this investment. "If that harbor had already
existed, the logistics of this project would have been a
great deal easier," Robert Schmidt laughs. "That and the
Ma'aden's joint venture with Alcoa has done what seemed impossible: build a huge plant in the middle of the
desert and equip it with modern facilities that leave suppliers, engineers and customers simply speechless. At
the heart of this plant, EBNER has installed two direct
gas-fired HICON® pusher furnaces to homogenize and
reheat aluminum ingots.
"Initially, we needed facts like ingot dimensions, annual
throughput and hot rolling / homogenizing temperatures," says Sales Manager Robert Schmidt. "Based on
this information, we at EBNER were able to calculated
the optimal number of furnaces required." EBNER's
calculations showed that two pusher-type furnaces
would meet the customer's needs, but Ma'aden also
had a third foundation built, to be ready for any eventualities. The ingots being heat treated in the HICON®
pusher-type furnaces are up to 9 m long, up to 2.1 m
high and up to 635 mm (29'6" x 6'10" x 2'1") thick.
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bauxite ore for the production of aluminum is more than
400 km (250 mi) away. A railroad line was laid just to
get the raw material to the plant, quite an extraordinary
investment in this state-of-the-art aluminum complex,"
Schmidt explains.
Ma'aden. SAUDI ARABIa.
packaging were brand new challenges for the EBNER
team." Ma'aden required the technology components
to be delivered in wooden crates capable of withstanding three months of any kind of desert weather.
Thanks to EBNER's innovation, the customer's requirements were able to be fulfilled and the entire facility was installed to everyone's complete satisfaction.
For an extraordinary plant such as this, only EBNER's
extraordinary furnace technology would suffice.
Ma'aden. SAUDI ARABIa.
HICON® JOURNAL No. 01 | 2015
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Atlanta
USA
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