Holding and Pouring Furnaces
OTTO JUNKER supplies a broad range of custom-designed holding and pouring furnaces for any production process employed in the aluminium industry – from DC casting of rolling slabs, T-bars, extrusion billets, sheet or plate through to wire/rod making, conventional ingot casting lines etc. These furnaces can be either stationary or tilting and are suitable for alloying, holding and pouring operations.
- Capacities: 2 - 150 tons
- Available heating systems:
- ambient air burners for gas, light or heavy fuel oil
- electric heating elements
Design features:
- Cascade-free pouring of liquid metal through pouring spout systems arranged in the furnace tilting axis
- Minimum energy consumption thanks to specific furnace design
- Proven furnace pressure control systems
- Modular door design
- Door clamping system ensuring a perfect seal
- Prefabricated door lintel refractory systems for low maintenance
65 tons tilting casting furnace
Accessoires:
- Skimming machines
- Electromagnetic stirrers
- Porous bubbling plugs and siphon systems for charging liquid metal
- Semi-automatic tapping systems for stationary furnaces
- Laser-based launder level control for automatic tilting furnaces
