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New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) are the future of automotive. Manufacturing these game-changers requires high performance parts, produced by high performance equipment. Which is probably why this OEM only uses Westomat dosing furnaces

The Nissan Casting Australia Plant (NCAP) in Dandenong South, Victoria, makes parts for Nissan vehicles around the world. Its primary furnace, a StrikoMelter from StrikoWestofen supplies 90% of total daily melt requirements. NCAP’s Maintenance and Process Engineer, wouldn’t be without it. Especially when relining delivers good as new performance. Read on to learn more.

An absolutely outstanding job”: StrikoMelter modernization helps automotive parts die caster achieve super energy savings by up to 24%.

Handtmann Group’s Light Metal Casting division has produced its first giant castings for automotive customers at its Biberach headquarters in Germany. What’s feeding their enormous 61,000 KN high pressure die casting machine?

GAMAK is a world-leading electric motor manufacturer. Its vast production site in Türkiye is home to a fleet of busy Westomat dosing furnaces, constantly working to feed a high pressure vertical and horizontal injection presses with molten aluminum.

The Handtmann light metal casting division is no stranger to StrikoWestofen technology.

With so much information about how to cut your energy consumption and carbon emissions, it’s hard to know where to start. We can answer that.

Whether you’re a die caster or an aluminium green sand foundry, melting metal is going to be your most energy intensive process.

Upgrades without downtime: BOHAI TRIMET use melting capacity for rent for a seamless furnace modernization. When BMW, Audi, Volkswagen, and Mercedes-Benz rely on you for a continuous supply of aluminium components, how do you make sure essential equipment upgrades don’t impact tight production schedules?

The StrikoMelter super-power helping Albert Weber on its journey to “Emission Zero”. Twenty years of trusted melting performance. WEBER RODING produces over 2 million aluminum components for the automotive industry every year. These castings require dimensional accuracy as well as excellent mechanical properties. Something you only get with high quality melt – a task it has entrusted to StrikoMelter for over 20 years.

To serve its global client list, the St. Ingbert based business in Germany casts over 100 million parts a year. That’s a lot of aluminium to melt. For cost and carbon efficiency, choosing a furnace which optimizes uptime and quality while also minimizing energy consumption and emissions, is essential.

5 ways to save even more energy. StrikoMelter shaft melting furnaces are designed to melt metal in the most efficient way possible. They are also built to last. If you’ve had yours for a while, modernization options are a good way to optimize performance, extend service life and boost energy savings.

Slovakian foundry ALW switches to StrikoMelter to save energy and reduce downtime.

Aluminium and zinc alloy die casting specialist, LENAAL Sp. z o.o. Sp. k., plans to increase casting capacity in 2024 - focusing heavily on the production of EV components. It’s using digital, dosing, and melting solutions from StrikoWestofen to support this goal.

LENAAL boosts production uptime by up to 50% with Monitizer | REFILL MONITOR. Discover how smart furnace monitoring is optimizing efficiency and reducing downtime.

Relined, upgraded StrikoMelter cuts energy consumption by 15% for a wheel hub foundry in Zhejiang.

Super quick and innovative refractory lining fix saves Schlicht Druckguss precious production time.

While the savings unlocked by our new StrikoMelter speak for themselves, it is also important to note that the quality of parts and simple operation of the machine both exceeded our expectations. Read the full story.

Turning something old into something that’s as good as new: to adapt productivity, availability and energy consumption to meet the latest standards, the Ford factory in Cologne (Germany) recently modernized further production units.

StrikoMelter BigStruc melts huge pieces of recycled material whole.