Hearth-type melting furnaces
OTTO JUNKER supplies a broad range of custom-designed melting furnaces for any production processes employed in the aluminium industry – from DC casting of rolling slabs, T-bars and extrusion billets, sheet or plate through to wire/rod making, conventional ingot casting lines, etc.
Dry-hearth furnace systems are a reliable solution for melting down ingots, sows and heavy scrap containing a free ferrous portion (e.g., automotive castings).
The iron content is reclaimed from the dry hearth once the aluminium scrap has molten down
- Melting rates: 1 - 30 tonnes/hour
- Capacities: 2 - 150 tonnes
- Available burner systems:
- ambient air burners
- recuperative burners
- regenerative burners
- O2 burners
Accessoires:
- Charging machines
- Skimming machines
- Electromagnetic stirrers
- Porous plug systems
- Siphon systems for charging liquid metal
- Semi-automatic tapping systems for stationary furnaces
- Laser-based launder level control system for automatic tilting furnaces