50-MN extrusion press for non-ferrous metals
SMS group supplied a 50-MN extrusion press for NF metals and an inductive billet heater to Austria-based buntmetall amstetten, a company of the German Wieland group.
The new 50-MN extrusion press replaced an 25-MN SMS-Schloemann extrusion press built in 1961. The new press and its ability to handle higher input weights provides buntmetall amstetten the possibility to boost the productivity of its operations and further expand its range of “specialty” products. The extrusion press comes with fully automatic handling equipment. All manual activities are performed by an industrial robot.
The billet heater, installed upstream of the press, consists of four vertical induction furnaces, an was supplied by the SMS group company IAS, based in Iserlohn, Germany. Heating the billets in vertical induction furnaces is an innovative approach which allows to bring also difficult-to-heat alloys to the required pressing temperature within a narrow tolerance range.
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