Contact StrikoMelter
- Email: Claudia Burbach
- Phone: +49 2261 7091 142
- Email: Holger Stephan
- Phone: +49 2261 7091 153
Contact Westomat
- Email: Wasiliki Zaharis
- Phone: +49 2261 7091 133
- Email: Claudia Burbach
- Phone: +49 2261 7091 142
Energy consumption and metal loss are responsible for up to 95 % of total cost of ownership of a melting furnace. This makes life-long optimization of the systems and the introduction of measures for increasing the energy efficiency worthwhile.
For this reason, we constantly work on the improvement of our furnaces - and this applies to new furnaces as well as to retrofits of systems already installed in foundries. We also offer training courses in order to train the operators with regard to optimum system settings and operating modes.
Production Manager
Czech OEM Customer
By installing a new refractory lining a Czech OEM was able to considerably reduce energy consumption by retrofitting the latest shaft filling level lasers to four StrikoMelter systems built in 1999.
They saved a total of € 110,000 annually on the operation of the furnaces. The one-off purchase cost of € 40,000 saw a return within just four months.
“The precise filling of the shaft achieved with the help of the integrated laser scanner improved the heat recovery of the ETAmax system in the StrikoMelter to such an extent that we were able to reduce our gas consumption by about ten percent. Without the laser scanner, the gas consumption totals 63.3 m3 per tonne of aluminum. The new shaft filling level monitoring immediately reduced the consumption to 57.1 m3 per tonne.”