2000 TMS Annual Meeting: Exhibitor

Schmitz + Apelt LOI is well known throughout the world as a major supplier to the aluminum industry with a wide product range.

Aluminum Melting and Casting

Delivery of complete plants for melting/recycling of various Al materials and scraps, including flue gas purification, metal treatment, charging and casting equipment.

Design and manufacture of:

• crucible furnaces
• auto ladles for gravity and die-casting
• hearth- and dry-hearth melting furnaces, stationary or tiltable\
• rotary drum-type melting furnaces
• twin-chamber melting furnaces for the recycling of various scraps without salt
• casting conveyor, air-/water-cooled
• stacking equipment for ingots
• also delivery of complete stacking, marking, weighing and strapping lines

Heat Treatment

Heat treatment plants for structural aluminum parts (wheels, cylinder heads, axle guides, etc.) for the continuous and non-continuous operation, for the process steps below:

• Solution annealing
• Quenching
• Artificial aging

Artificial aging plants for extruded aluminum sections or profiles, pressing-tool pre-heating plants, with automatic tool transport used in press shops for extruded profiles.