| Rautomead International Ltd, UK, has recently commissioned one of its innovative copper rod casting machines in Yugoslavia. The customer, Grand�d Inzenjering of Bor, was founded in 1990 to process copper and aluminium scrap into billets and has purchased a Rautomead RS 1050/6/8 model upwards vertical casting machine for the production of 800 oxygen-free copper re-draw rod. With a capacity of 4,500 tonnes per year, the RS model chosen represents a significant advance in technology for the Yugoslav company. The machine will produce 6 strands of rod which are formed into coils for direct drawing to wire without intermediate rolling or annealing. Feedstock for the RS 1050/6/8 is grade A cathode, supplemented with a small amount of clean mill scrap.
Committed to providing its customers with the highest standards of service, Rautomead sent a senior projects engineer to the Bor site to plan the installation and to ensure that the site, and all services, would be ready in time for the arrival of the machine. Rautomead also provided drawings to enable certain ancillary parts of the plant to be built locally. Production trials started four weeks after the erection of the machine and a formal production pass-off test and operator training occupied a further two weeks.
|
