AMAG places an order with Hertwich to supply a single chamber melting and casting furnace

Austrian company AMAG has placed an order with Hertwich Engineering to supply a melting/casting furnace with a capacity of 55,000 tons of aluminum per year including a charging machine. Commissioning of the new furnace is scheduled for mid 2017. The aluminum industry assumes that worldwide consumption of rolled aluminum products will grow by 70 percent over the next ten years. With this dynamic growth in demand, AMAG started an ambitious enlargement program in 2012 with an initial volume of 220 million euros. In 2016, the company is additionally starting a new rolling plant project (strategy project “AMAG 2020”), with which the capacity should be boosted to more than 300,000 tons per year by 2017. The furnace ordered is part of this enlargement program. With the increase of rolling production, the quantity of production scrap also rises, which needs to be remelted. The furnace is designed for this task.