Making savings where it matters: An energy-efficient melting furnace for Heck + Becker

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

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.

“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.

By investing in the latest aluminium die casting equipment from Norican, DGS China can now produce the largest and most complex automotive parts.

In 1995, the pressure die-casting foundry Moneva in Winterbach in Swabia commissioned a StrikoMelter shaft melting furnace MH II-T 2000/1000 G-eg. 20 years on, the aluminium melting furnace is still working to the full satisfaction of the company. There are no plans afoot to replace this “workhorse”.

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.

For its new project in Michigan (USA), the Chinese automotive wheel manufacturer CITIC Dicastal has decided on StrikoMelter melting furnaces built by StrikoWestofen Asia (Taicang).

Welsh automotive supplier CastAlum relies on StrikoMelter melting furnace technology