| Specialising in continuous casting technology, Rautomead International Ltd, UK, has recently announced the installation of a second RS3000 upward vertical casting machine at AB Elektrokoppar, Sweden. Scheduled for start-up during the first quarter of 2004, this second RS machine will increase the company�s installed production capacity of CuAG and CuOF wire rod to 12,000 tonnes per year.
Commenting on the contract, Sir Michael Nairn, Chairman of Rautomead, said: �It is very gratifying that Elektrokoppar have selected Rautomead for their second copper rod casting machine. The combination of the Rautomead process, with Conform�s expertise to make high quality wrought profiles, represents a very neat and elegant solution for the production of small copper-silver sections. It also gives the manufacturer close control of the whole process sequence, from the refined cathode to the end product�.
Photo:Mr Bengt Jonasson, Elektrokoppar, Sir Michael Nairn, Chairman of Rautomead International, and Mr Bo Samuelsson, President, Bare Wire Division, Elektrokoppar |
