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Time flies It seems that 2015 has passed in the blink of an eye!

This year has thrown up many challenges and while uncertainties still lie ahead, the industry is pulling together to continue growing and innovating.

To give you a round up of 2015, Aluminium International Today will be sending out a free, digital ‘Highlights’ issue, which will pick out some of the most talked about articles and news from this year.

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Coming back to this issue and it’s time again for the annual Furnaces International Buyers’ Guide, which provides a classified listing of furnace plant equipment, materials and services. The guide also includes a selection of articles, which look at how to find the right furnace, thermal process optimisation and a profile on the British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association.

The usual Updates section highlights Europe’s Sustainability Roadmap, while a Casthouse feature focuses on Rio Tinto’s ‘Compact Casthouse Package’ in a Kitimat case study.

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Alcoa has announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously approved a plan to separate into two independent, publicly-traded companies, culminating Alcoa’s successful multi-year transformation.

The separation will launch two industry-leading, Fortune 500 companies.

The globally competitive Upstream Company will comprise

five strong business units that today make up Global Primary Products - Bauxite, Alumina, Aluminium, Casting and Energy. The innovation and technology-driven Value-Add Company will include Global Rolled Products, Engineered Products and Solutions, and Transportation and Construction Solutions.

The transaction is expected to

be completed in the second half of 2016. At that point, Alcoa shareholders will own all of the outstanding shares of both the Upstream and Value-Add Companies.

The separation is intended to qualify as a tax-free transaction to Alcoa shareholders for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

GARMCO restructuring GARMCO, the Bahrain-based international aluminium rolling mill has announced the completion of a major restructuring of its international operations.

This is in line with the company’s three-year strategy, which involves closing unprofitable subsidiaries and non-operating companies; and identifying additional opportunities for growth in high-margin markets where

GARMCO has established a strong presence, in particular South East Asia, the USA and Australia.

The restructuring has resulted in the closing of unprofitable subsidiaries in the saturated markets of China and Korea; and non-operating companies in Hungary and Cyprus, which do not add value to GARMCO’s core activities.

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exercise, both the Chairman of GARMCO - Mr Mahmood Al Soufi, and the CEO - Mr Jean-Baptiste Lucas, now sit on the Boards of Directors of the subsidiaries in Australia, Singapore and the USA. This will help ensure greater synergy between the head office in Bahrain and overseas operations, and faster implementation of GARMCO’s strategic objectives and business goals.

Hydro to sell rolling mill Hydro has entered into a binding agreement to sell its aluminium rolling mill in Cisterna di Latina, Italy, to Rolling Mills International GmbH. Hydro’s rolling mill in Cisterna di Latina produces aluminium rolled

products, mainly standard strip and sheet, as well as plain foil.

Through the agreement, Rolling Mills International GmbH will acquire 100% of the shares in Hydro Aluminium Slim S.p.A.

Rolling Mills International GmbH is controlled by Quantum Capital Partners AG, a Munich-based investment company.

The transaction is expected to close by end 2015.

Danieli acquires FATA On 6th October 2015 FINMECCANICA signed an agreement to sell 100% of FATA S.p.A. to the Danieli Group.

FATA, established in 1936 with headquarters in Pianezza (TO), employs a workforce of approximately 200 employees and has a yearly turnover of about Euro 150 mil.

It operates worldwide as a referenced player in the field of industrial plant engineering and construction with its subsidiaries in the USA (Fata Hunter), India (FATA Engineering), China (Fata Shanghai ) and the UAE (Fata Gulf).

The acquisition of Fata EPC marks a milestone in Danieli’s project execution capability, and following the integration of the

resources of Fata EPC and Danieli Construction International, which will add competitiveness to both business units, the company will remain independent and be free to operate in the most profitable markets.

The acquisition of Fata Hunter will further broaden Danieli Centro Aluminum’s product range thanks to its year-long experience in Continuous Roll Casters, Foil Mills, Color Coating Lines and complete aluminium plants (for food and pharmaceutical packaging) including EPC experience in smelter projects. These are strategic references which could boost Danieli’s sound experience in the non-ferrous sector.

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Hawesville potline continues operation Century had previously announced its intent to curtail 100% of its Hawesville operations beginning on 24th October, but now will only reduce its operations to 40% of capacity.

The remaining operations at the Hawesville smelter will primarily produce high-purity aluminium

and provide molten metal to local customers. Continued operations at 40% of capacity will be dependent on acceptable commercial conditions, including aluminium prices, product premiums and operating costs.

“We are pleased to be able to announce that partial operations

will continue at Hawesville,” commented Michael Bless, President and CEO. “Hawesville’s ability to produce high-purity aluminium will hopefully allow the plant to survive, albeit at significantly reduced production levels, in today’s market conditions.”

Foil demand increase The global demand for aluminium foil will continue increasing by more than 4% CAGR until 2019, according to data released recently by CRU International.

The additional global demand will add up to one million tons by the end of that period. One key trend being witnessed in this market is the economic growth in China, which is becoming the leading market for production and demand.

Reflecting the healthy outlook for the industry, the Global Aluminium Foil Roller Initiative (GLAFRI) has recently welcomed new foil roller members: Gujarat Foils and Raviraj Foils with operations in India and UACJ Foil based in Japan

and Malaysia. Furnace manufacturer Otto Junker also joined as a supplier member.

Commenting on the market and membership growth, GLAFRI’s President Manfred Mertens said: “We are excited by this forecast of potential growth in the global market. GLAFRI was established to support this expansion and particularly to enhance and develop consumption of foil in the various regions.

“Helping to achieve these aims, GLAFRI, represented by Vice President Simon Chan and Executive Director Stefan Glimm, recently launched a social media campaign in China to enhance home consumption of semi-rigid foil con-

tainers,” he added. “We were glad to welcome 20 multipliers from media and trade associations, such as the restaurant and catering organisation for the Shanghai region.

“In India GLAFRI organised the first Indian foil roller workshop, to share expertise in promoting foil.

The example of the Alufoil Trophy – which has been successful in Europe for many years making innovation in foil applications highly visible – was of particular interest to the Indian members. They saw it as an opportunity to drive foil consumption by considering a similar competition in India. This is exactly what we want to achieve with GLAFRI,” concluded Mr Mertens.

Alba: New Chief Marketing Officer

Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) has announced the official appointment of Khalid Abdul Latif as Chief Marketing Officer following the Alba Board of Directors Meeting.

Khalid Abdul Latif will lead the company’s global marketing strategies to drive innovation across Alba’s business divisions.

KAMPF: New Head of Technology Kampf Schneid-und Wickeltechnik GmbH & Co. KG, has appointed Dr. Stephan Witt as Head of Technology with effect from 1 October 2015.

Roy Harvey: Leadership of Alcoa’s Global Primary Products Group

Novelis Kingston celebrates 75th anniversary Novelis recently celebrated the 75th anniversary of its plant in Kingston, Ontario with a number of public activities taking place.

As an integral facility in Novelis’ North American operations, the plant produces aluminium for automotive, transportation and other industrial applications serving customers across the globe.

“For 75 years, the employees of Novelis Kingston have built a legacy of leadership in the production of high quality aluminium material for our customers,” said Jacob Czyz, Plant Manager of Novelis Aluminium International Today

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Kingston. “I am honoured to lead our Kingston plant at this memorable time and know that we have a bright future ahead.”

In honour of reaching this milestone, Novelis hosted a series of celebratory events in Kingston for past and present employees, local residents and government officials.”

Novelis Kingston has been part of the local Ontario community since 1940, and employs approximately 275 people. Customers include major brands such as BMW, Ford, GM, Mercedes, Peterbilt and Thyssen Krupp. Novelis Kingston

is active in the local community, supporting the United Way and providing grants to community organisations in support of safety, recycling, math and science education through its Novelis Neighbour programme.

Roy Harvey, Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability, is appointed President of Global Primary Products (GPP), succeeding Bob Wilt, effective immediately.

Harvey previously served as both Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of GPP, Alcoa’s upstream business.

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IN BRIEF Review highlights growth The Aluminum Association has released the latest edition of the Aluminum Statistical Review for 2014.

The latest edition of the Review, which features a new design and statistics through 2014 in the North American market, includes information on every cycle of the aluminium production process from primary aluminium to markets for finished goods to the recovery of aluminium scrap.

For more information visit: www.aluminum.org

BALCO to shut rolling plant

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The aluminium manufacturer recently announced its decision to shut down the rolling mill in Korba (Chhattisgarh) on account of ‘steep fall’ in the prices of the metal besides dumping from China and falling margins.

“BALCO has begun the official procedure to close down its Sheet Rolling Division and Foundry at Korba. The company has issued the information to the Secretary, Labour Ministry, government of Chhattisgarh, as well as the BSE and NSE,” the company said in a statement.

Alcoa signs contract with Airbus Alcoa has signed an approximate $1 billion contract with Airbus for high-tech, multi-material aerospace fastening systems.

Alcoa’s fasteners will be used to assemble some of Airbus’s latest high-growth airplanes, including the A350 XWB, Airbus’ newest commercial airplane, and the A320neo. In addition, Airbus will use Alcoa’s fastening systems for longer-running platforms including the A330.

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UC RUSAL to produce alumina from Siberian clay UC RUSAL has developed acid technology for alumina production of non-bauxite raw materials.

The technology will allow the production of alumina using domestic kaolin clay as a substitution to imported bauxites.

The new technology will boost RUSAL smelters’ economic efficiency thanks to the low cost of the material and the logistical cost reduction. The technology also allows for the simultaneous produc-

tion of a number of high demand products, including those with silicon oxide and rare-earth metals bases.

Acid technology implementation will create an entire complex of related production and research facilities, having stimulated Russia’s industrial and scientific potential by using modern technologies.

The demo facility for the production of 1kg of alumina per

hour with acid technology will be developed and launched in early 2016. The facility’s major purpose will be to test the technology modes in a closed loop, as well as to confirm consumption indicators and the products’ quality.

Upon R&D completion, the company’s further plans include the development of a feasibility study to construct an alumina refinery with the production capacity over 1 mln tonnes per year.

Hydro enters LoI with Vale Hydro has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with Brazilian mining company Vale for the possible acquisition of Vale’s 40% interest in Brazilian bauxite producer Mineração Rio do Norte (MRN), which would strengthen Hydro’s global position as a long-term player in bauxite and alumina.

An eventual agreement will depend on the parties agreeing terms for Hydro to acquire Vale’s 40% interest in MRN, completion of Hydro’s due diligence process, approval by the parties’ Board of Directors and by the relevant competition authorities.

The parties will also seek support from the other MRN shareholders to the transaction and will proceed in accordance with the terms of the shareholders’ agreement.

MRN’s current shareholders are Vale (40%), Alcoa (18.2%), South 32 (14.8%), Rio Tinto (12%),CBA (10%) and Hydro (5%).

MRN is situated in the west-

ernmost part of the state of Para, home to Hydro’s other Brazilian operations, and is Brazil’s, and one of the world’s largest producers of bauxite. In operation since 1979, MRN currently employs around 1,400 employees and a significant number of contractors.

Hydro acquired Vales’ other Brazilian aluminium assets in

2011, including the 57% interest in the Alunorte alumina refinery, the Paragominas bauxite mine, a 51% interest in the Albras smelter, and their 61% interest in the CAP alumina refinery project, all located in the state of Para. The 2011 agreement also included commercial agreements for Vale’s bauxite offtake in MRN.

Chinalco plans shutdown Aluminum Corp of China (Chinalco), plans to shut down its biggest smelter - accounting for about an eighth of its total capacity - due to low prices, an industry body said.

The shutdown reflects mounting pressure on even state-owned companies in the face of slower economic growth and a planned

restructure of state-owned enterprises, although it is not expected to have much impact on a forecast domestic output surplus this year.

Chinalco vice president Jiang Yinggang announced the shutdown of the Liancheng smelter in the northwestern province of Gansu during a visit with other

company officials, according to a report on the website of industry body China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association.

The smelter has an annual capacity of about 550,000 tonnes, compared with Chinalco’s total capacity of more than four million tonnes.

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6 INDUSTRY NEWS NEWS IN BRIEF Arabal attracts attention Senior industry figures are scheduled to speak at this premier global aluminium event.

The conference will also include the participation of 35 exhibitors in the exhibition accompanying the conference, which highlights the major developments in the global aluminium industry, with a review of the latest updates on regional aluminium sector investments.

Electricity market reform European Aluminium welcomes the planned reform of the EU Electricity Market Design as an opportunity to accelerate the transition towards a more decentralised, low-carbon and competitive electricity market in Europe.

This should go hand in hand with the creation of a compensation scheme that lifts the burden of indirect carbon costs passed on to Europe’s aluminium producers.

Sohar Graduate Programme As part of its commitment to developing local talent, Sohar Aluminium (SA) has launched the company’s inaugural Fresh Graduate Programme to give selected high achieving young Omani students an intensive training and may become SA’s future Engineers.

Alba on track for growth Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), one of the world’s leading aluminium smelters, is on track to exceed its annual production growth targets according to a statement issued by the Chairman of Alba’s Board of Directors, Shaikh Daij Bin Salman Bin Daij Al Khalifa.

LME Week success This year’s programme was packed full of industry experts, who discussed trends within the world of metals. Panels focused on the outlook for base metals, the happenings in precious metals and what developments are affecting ferrous. www.lme.com

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Danieli and Alcoa license Micromill Following a successful cooperation over the past years, Alcoa and Danieli have agreed to license the intellectual property associated with advanced Micromill alloys and process technology, bringing the aluminium sheet technology to customers around the world.

Danieli Group and Alcoa announced that they have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) and will work toward an agreement to sell Micromill equipment and license the patented Micromill technology.

As part of the collaboration, Alcoa will grant Danieli exclusive

rights to sell Micromill equipment.

In addition, the companies will work together to license the Micromill alloys and process technology to potential customers around the world, initially targeting Europe, South America, and Southeast Asia.

“This agreement puts Alcoa’s Micromill technology on the fasttrack to commercialisation,” said Klaus Kleinfeld, Alcoa Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “Micromill technology has the potential to change the face of the aluminium rolling industry.”

Constellium launches Aeral Constellium N. V. has launched Aeral, a new aluminium solution designed for the production of aerosol containers using the Drawn and Ironed (D&I) technology which is currently used to produce beverage cans.

Constellium’s Aeral allows a minimum of 30% weight savings compared to traditional impact extruded containers, all while maintaining the same level of performance in terms of resistance to pressure and great ductility.

“Aeral is a new aluminium solution which, combined with the D&I technology, we expect will radically change the niche aerosol market.

Yielding significant weight savings, this combination will dramatically reduce the environmental footprint of aerosol containers,” said Raphael Thevenin, Sales & Marketing Director, Beverage Food and Personal Care at Constellium.

“Constellium’s Aeral is developed from a specific alloy that can be used efficiently throughout the D&I can making process, including the specific necking operation, while meeting the pressure resistance and aesthetical requirements of cosmetics companies,” highlighted Herve Vichery, Customer Technical Support Manager at Constellium.

Aeral demonstrates Constellium’s commitment to sustainability and the development of innovative, lighter and infinitely recyclable solutions.

Aeral was created through a combination of cutting-edge research at C-TEC, Constellium’s world-class technology center in Voreppe, France, and strong industrial capabilities at the Company’s rolling mill in Neuf-Brisach, France, which has long experience in manufacturing light-weighting products, including beverage cans.

Constellium is already in advanced discussions with some key players in the market.

2015 DIARY November/December 15 - 17 ARABAL* The Arab International Aluminium Conference and Exhibition is the premium trade event for the Middle East’s aluminium industry.

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16 - 18 23rd Recycled Aluminium* The conference will focus on the latest trends and challenges facing this dynamic and growing industry. www.metalbulletin.com/events

16 - 20 Rolling Technology Course Hosted by Innoval Technology, the course covers all the key aspects of hot and cold rolling of aluminium flat products. www.innovaltec.com/rolling_tech. htm

29 - 01 ICSOBA* The International Committee for Study of Bauxite, Alumina & Aluminium (ICSOBA) is an independent non-profit association that unites industry professionals

representing major bauxite, alumina and aluminium producing companies, technology & equipment suppliers, universities, research institutes and consultants from around the world. www.icsoba.org

02 - 04 International Metal Technology Taiwan This event integrates the entire supply chain of the metal technology sector. www.imttaiwan.com

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Sustainability roadmap The European aluminium’s industry vision of the future

“Europe must stand up for the aluminium industry as a champion of a sustainable and prosperous future. With the Sustainability Roadmap we look forward to continuing our

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dialogue with the EU on how to make this happen.

Gerd Götz, Director General of European Aluminium

Thanks to its unique properties, aluminium is increasingly the material of choice to satisfy many of the global societal needs: It is an essential component for low-carbon mobility, energy-efficient buildings, resource-efficient packaging and many other applications. And no matter what we use it for, it can be recycled again and again.

The transition towards a low carbon, resource-efficient and circular economy, coupled with a long-lasting growth and industrial competitiveness, is very high in the agenda of the European Union.

The European aluminium industry has

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committed to be a key partner towards a sustainable future and to provide full support to this transition, relying on its strong industrial tradition, value-chain synergies, drive for innovation.

Vision is important, but actions matter more. Therefore, to turn ambition into reality and to live up to its full potential, the European aluminium industry has developed a Sustainability Roadmap to 2025, publicly launched in April 2015 in Brussels.

The Roadmap is a voluntary programme of ambitious targets and commitments that go beyond legislative requirements, Pierre Vareille, European Aluminium Chairman and CEO Constellium

reflecting our industry’s forwardthinking approach to change and its commitment to action over the next decade. It is structured along three main areas, “Responsible production for Environmental Protection”, “Innovative applications for Sustainable Lifestyles” and “Socio-economic contribution for a Sustainable Society”, with specific objectives supported by action plans.

What’s more, this builds on a proven track-record of continuous selfimprovement, demonstrated by the Sustainable Development Indicators (SDIs), which have been in place and reported since the late 1990s. The aluminium sector operating in Europe has reduced its own CO2 emissions by more than 50% and PFCs emissions by 90% based on 1990 levels. Other notable improvements include a reduction by almost 80% in the Total Recordable Incident rate (TRI) and a doubling of the training hours per person, per year.

The launch of the Roadmap coincides with important milestones in the fields of global sustainability: First, the UN Sustainable Developments Goals post2015, adopted in September; second, the adoption of a new climate agreement at international level, highly expected at the Paris COP21 in December. By identifying priority areas such as more efficient production processes, environmentally November/December 2015

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regularly monitored and transparently reported along the way, through the Sustainability Development Indicators and an open dialogue with stakeholders.

A comprehensive mid-journey evaluation of the progress is also planned in Brussels five years from now. In the meantime, this ambitious programme will also be presented and discussed outside of the European borders, starting with the AluSolutions event, taking place in the Gulf in May 2016. We look forward to joining the global sector in putting forward our industry’s vision for a greener future and to debating the key role aluminium can play for sustainable production and processing in addition to sustainable business practices.

Contact: Coline Lavorel Manager Public Affairs and Sustainability lavorel@european-aluminium.eu Sandro Starita Director EHS & Sustainability starita@european-aluminium.eu

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OF THE ROADMAP The Sustainability Roadmap in detail:

an EU ETS regime that strikes the right

friendly products and a strong contribution to societal welfare, the Roadmap will guide the aluminium industry to new levels of commitment and achievement in the realm of sustainability.

Being able to deliver on aluminium’s potential, however, depends on operating in the right conditions. In this respect, EU decision-makers have a pivotal role to play: there must be strong alignment of EU industrial, climate and energy policies, as high energy costs continue to jeopardise primary production of aluminium in Europe. The ever-increasing export of scrap to outside the EU affects the recycling industry, and obstructs our transition to a circular economy.

Reindustrialisation will depend on research and innovation, energy efficiency and renewable energy, as well as on recycling. The Roadmap’s targets closely reflect these enabling factors.

The Sustainability Roadmap is the result of intense discussion and collaborative thinking among European Aluminium’s members across the whole value chain, as well as with key stakeholders such as EU decision-makers, customers and NGOs. Our industry operates strategically in industrial clusters and never isolated from key sectors such as transport, buildings, aerospace, packaging at European and global scales. Together we develop business models and products that promote sustainable practices and concrete greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Together with our members, European Aluminium will maintain a continuous dialogue with the full spectrum of relevant stakeholders to discuss further improvements and actions.

Following the launch of the Sustainability Roadmap, the members of European Aluminium have started, with the support of the Secretariat, to develop concrete action plans and to implement proposals to achieve the targets. Progress will be

AN IN-DEPTH OVERVIEW

1. Responsible production for environmental protection This area champions the importance of sustainable, environment-friendly production for Europe, complementing the already ambitious legislative European requirements.

Under the overarching ambition to safeguard the environment, this area sets targets for on the use of resources, and the management of water and industrial waste.

1. Innovative applications for sustainable lifestyles This area covers the main applications of aluminium in Europe, in the automotive and transport, building and packaging sectors, with the aim to fully express the potential of aluminium’s properties.

In addition, industry commits to actively contributing to the phase-out of the landfilling of aluminium recyclable waste, through the development of market-specific recycling action plans.

2. Socio-economic contribution for a sustainable society This area sets targets to build on the interaction between the aluminium industry and both the workforce and the broader society, in terms of employee welfare (including employee development; health and safety) and social engagement (including value sharing with local communities).

“Aluminum is the material we need in order to build efficient buildings, efficient cars, efficient vehicles in general, but also the wires we need to transport electricity. It is a sector we

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US and China address climate change The Aluminum Association commends the Joint Presidential Statement by the United States and China, which lays out concrete and achievable goals for addressing climate change, and in a time frame that emphasises the immediacy of these challenges.

The US aluminium industry has long been part of the solution to address climate change in many respects.

Automakers are using lightweight, military-grade aluminium to help achieve far greater fuel economy for their fleets. The construction market relies on aluminium for increasing the energy efficiency of new buildings. And the increasing rate of recycling is saving energy consumption in the packaging market.

The US-China Joint Presidential Statement promises to make these kinds of gains enjoyed in the United States commonplace in China within a short period of time. If implemented well, China’s new cap and trade system should

provide ample incentives for carbonintensive aluminium smelters in China to be phased out.

“We welcome China’s commitments to a cleaner manufacturing future, and the use of aluminium will be a meaningful solution to the challenges of global climate change,” said Heidi Brock, president and CEO of the Aluminum Association. “As they work to address climate change, we believe China should commit to setting appropriate standards for aluminium production emissions and coal usage, taking offline production assets that do not meet those standards.”

In 2005, China supplied 13% of the world’s aluminium. Today, spurred by

energy subsidies, Chinese producers supply roughly half of this metal. China’s tax regime also incentivises the export of this excess, carbon-intensive production which has displaced energy-efficient, sustainably produced North American aluminium.

The Aluminum Association is working to raise the visibility of a variety of issues with the US government related to the global trade of aluminium - calling on relevant authorities to investigate claims of unfair trade practices like the deliberate misclassification of metal to avoid taxes, and urging bilateral discussions between China and the US. www.aluminum.org

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Focus on the Gulf Seema Gahlaut* gives an overview of the aluminium industry in the Gulf and highlights the key producers in the region.

EMAL The UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Saudi Arabia are all members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and with a combined population of approximately 46 million, this accounts for about 10% of the total global aluminum production.

Prior to the global economic recession of 2008 there were only two operating smelters in the region. Currently, the region boasts six world-class smelters and another two are in the planning stage. Along with primary production, secondary production in the region has also experienced a dramatic growth in recent years.

Overview In a bid to diversify their economies, GCC countries have taken aluminium quite seriously. In less than a decade, the region has become one of the highest aluminium producing regions of the world, served by six primary smelters in the region: (Alba in Bahrain, Sohar in Oman, Qatalum in Qatar, Ma’aden in Saudi Arabia and Dubal and Emal, together known as EGA, in the UAE). The smelters have grown at an average rate of 8.3% since 2005 on the back of a huge energy cost advantage, capacity additions and active government supports. The GCC region accounted for about 10% of the global aluminium production in 2014 with an output of 4.9 million tonnes of primary metal.

The region’s aluminium industry has grown at a CAGR of 8.4% in the last two years when compared to an average annual global expansion of 3.5%, making the Gulf one of the fastest growing aluminium markets in the world. In fact, post 2008 the aluminium sector has become one of the key non-oil industry sectors in the region. Strong growth in the economies, fuelled by new projects, will further boost aluminium industry

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Company

Annual installed capacity

Year commissioned

Bahrain ALBA

915,000

Oman

370,000

2008

640,000

2010

Sohar Aluminium

Qatar Qatalum Saudi Arabia UAE

1971

Ma’aden

750,000

2013

EGA

2,400,000

1979 and 2010

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Country

Electricity cost/Ton

China

$ 788

Europe

$ 473

South Americas

$ 456

Rest of Asia

$ 430

North America

$ 357

Russia

$ 339

GCC

$ 316

Source- International Energy Agency, Rio Tinto Alcan & Alcoa

Table 2. Electricity cost per ton of aluminium in different regions

growth in the region in coming years.

The aluminium industry has contributed significantly to the region-wide efforts to diversify economies beyond oil and gas.

Having a competitive advantage in terms of massive reserves of raw material, energy and natural gas and easy availability of cheap, skilled labour, compared to its global counterparts, the region has become an attractive destination for the aluminum industry.

The region is not only one of the key aluminium producers in the world, but it is also among the major consumption markets of the metal. The UAE produced a total of 2.4 million tonnes of aluminium in 2014. Of this, about 255,000 tonnes is currently utilised in the country and the rest is being exported to more than 70 countries around the world.

Aluminium production in the Gulf has been rising sharply due to a number of

reasons. However, the primary reason for a rapid rise in the metal is attributed to the low cost of production due to ample availability of fuel at one of the lowest costs in the world. GCC based aluminium producers have exploited the low fuel cost advantage to set up a huge base of aluminium production in the region.

Lowest cost producing region Amid global over-supply of aluminium, lowering production costs is a major focus for primary aluminium producers in an energy intensive industry like ours.

The rush to lower production costs is intense. With one third of total aluminium production cost going towards energy bills, lowering energy cost alone is not a priority, rather it has become a means to survive.

In one of the toughest phases in aluminium production history, low cost production is keeping the GCC producers afloat, even when the aluminium prices are at their lowest in years. Aluminium at the London Metal Exchange (LME) is trading at the lowest levels since 2009.

The LME primary aluminium three-month contract closed at $1,603 a ton in the last week of August, down from a high of $2,800 in 2011.

On an average, national electricity cost is lower in the Middle East by 2530% when compared to the USA and about 35% lower than that in Europe.

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project, which will boost annual output by 514,000 tonnes to an overall 1.45 million tpa. Construction of the project, which will make Alba the largest singlesite aluminium smelter in the world, is expected to start in 2016 and commercial production will begin in 2019. Alba’s Line 6 project is expected to cost around $2.5 billion.

Speaking about the expansion of Line 6, Alba’s Chief Operations Officer, Isa al Ansari says: “We are proud of what Alba has achieved since 1971 and for its contributions to the Kingdom of Bahrain.

We look forward to attaining new heights with the Line 6 Expansion Project.”

Alba, Bahrain

Country

Installed capacity - July 2015

Installed capacity - 2012

% Change since 2012

UAE

2,400,000

1,861, 000

28 %

Bahrain

915,000

890,200

27 %

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628,000

2%

Oman Total

380,000

360,100

5%

5,085,000

3,739,300

35 %

Source - Gulf Aluminum Council

Table 3. Installed capacity of primary aluminium in GCC Countries

However, such rates do not apply to aluminium producers, who negotiate the rates directly with utilities and often pay a fraction of what American or European producers pay.

The scale of operations of GCC aluminium producers provides a unique advantage in terms of cost competitiveness. With an average capacity of 734,000 tons, GCC based smelters are about three times larger than their counterparts in other major aluminium producing regions.

Excellent port facilities in the immediate vicinity and proximity to Europe, which is the largest importing aluminium market, is another factor that has put GCC based aluminium producers at an advantageous position vis-a-vis aluminium producers in China and India. On average, shipping time from most of the GCC ports to Europe is 12 days, whereas it takes 30 days in the case of India and 45 days for Chinese producers to reach their products to European shores.

Sustainable development Initiatives Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) The largest aluminium producer in the region, EGA, which came into being from a merger of Dubai Aluminium (Dubal) and Emirates Aluminium (Emal) in 2013 has an installed capacity of 2.4 million tpa.

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(EMAL, also known as EGA Al Taweelah).

Commissioned in 1979, DUBAL’s operations, comprising a 1 million tpa smelter and a 2,350 MW power station is one of the world’s largest single-site primary aluminium smelters.

EMAL’s operations, commissioned in 2009, comprises 1.4 million tpa smelter, a 3,100 MW power station and other facilities.

Owned equally by Mubadala Development Company of Abu Dhabi and Investment Corporation of Dubai, EGA is an aluminium conglomerate with interests in primary aluminium smelting and bauxite/alumina.

According to Abdullah bin Kalban, CEO and Managing Director of Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA): “We have invested about USD $15 billion between 2005 and 2014 in improving the production at EGA. A further $5 billion investment is planned into capacity enhancement to meet the growing demand for aluminium.”

Alba Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) is one of the largest industrial companies in the Middle East and is one of the top 10 largest aluminium producers in the world. In 2014, the company set an all time production record in its history with 931,427 metric tones, a jump of 18,727 metric tonnes from 912,700 metric tonnes achieved in 2013.

In June 2015, Alba secured government approval for a larger-than-planned expansion of its proposed Line six

Ma’aden Saudi Arabian company Ma’aden, with an installed capacity of 750,000 tpa, is the third largest primary aluminium producer in the region. A $10.8 billion joint venture with global aluminium giant Alcoa means it is one of most efficient, vertically integrated aluminium complexes in the world.

It uses a dedicated rail line to bring bauxite mined from Al-Baitha (four million tonnes per year) to Ma’aden’s industrial city of Ras Al Khair, which contains the Middle East’s first alumina refinery (1.8 million tpy), a state-of-the-art smelter (740,000 tpy), rolling mill (380,000 tpy), and an aluminium recycling facility.

Downstream processors Along with a sharp rise in primary aluminium production, downstream processing activities have also seen an increase in recent years. A significant number of downstream processors have jumped into the fray to take advantage of strong economic and infrastructure growth of the region.

Brisk activities in the downstream processing segment are evident from a number of new set ups and expansion by existing processors. In the last week of September 2015, Bahrain based GARMCO, which is one of the largest downstream aluminium facilities in the region entered into a contract worth $47 million to build a new casthouse at its Bahrain based facilities. Upon completion in July 2017, the new project will enable the company to produce 120,000 tonnes of aluminium slabs.

Commenting on the signing of the contract Jean-Baptiste Lucas, CEO of GARMCO said: “With the launch of this Remelt Expansion project, we move the company even further down the path of efficiency – both in terms of the value and savings that can be extracted – but also in terms of furthering our commitment to sustainable operating and manufacturing practices.”  November/December 2015

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Improving induction billet heating This article introduces an induction billet heating system for extrusion processes.

By Dr.-Ing. Peter Turewicz1,3, Rolf Schuller2, Dr. rer. nat. J체rgen Kern1

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Since the twentieth century, the extrusion of metals has gained more and more importance. The process is used for the production of bars, tubes and pipes, wires or profiles of irregular shapes. Mainly billets from aluminium and copper alloys are extruded. However, seamless stainless steel pipes, steel sections and alloys for special applications like zirconium for fuel rods or titanium for the aviation industry are also produced in small quantities by extrusion [1].

The schematic structure of common extrusion presses is shown in Fig. 1. A distinction is made between direct and indirect extrusion. The round billet is pressed by the stem with high pressure against the die or a closing pad and forced to flow through an opening of desired shape. Due to procedural advantages mostly the direct method is used in the industry.

In order to reduce the flow stress, the billets are preheated before the extrusion.

For Al and Al-alloys, a temperature range of 400째C to 550째C is favourable, which even makes it possible to produce profiles of complex cross-sectional shapes.

Inductive preheating of billets offers many advantages in comparison with conventional heating systems like gas furnaces. The main benefits are process reliability, high throughput and, in particular, the possibility to provide a tapered temperature profile. Despite these advantages, in some cases the induction technology becomes less attractive due to the higher investment costs.

Therefore EMA Indutec GmbH and Russ Elektroofen GmbH developed a new technological concept, which is said to

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reduce the financial outlay without having to forego the advantages of induction heating.

Current technological status Common induction billet heaters for low resistive metals operate in the range of mains frequency up to 200 Hz and are equipped with multi-layered coils, which are separated in (usually four to six) independent working heating zones.

The electrical supply is mainly realised by resonant converters using capacitor units to compensate the reactive current (Fig. 2a).

This approach has several disadvantages, which increases the investment costs dramatically. On the one hand, multi-layered coils lead to a poor power factor. Therefore, reactive power has to be compensated. Power factor correction at low frequencies requires large and expensive compensation units.

Furthermore, the separation of the coil into several heating zones requires a more expensive converter with an output for each coil or zone.

New technological concept After implementing a high efficient and low cost induction system in the field of induction melting by EMA Indutec GmbH and Russ Elektroofen GmbH this idea was transferred to induction heating of billets.

Fig. 3 shows an 1800 kW and 25 Hz billet heating plant, which was delivered in 2015.

According to previous studies concerning a higher energy-saving potential below mains frequency[3], the new technology is designed to operate in low frequency range. To achieve optimal efficiency and flexibility, the converter frequency is freely adoptable.

This makes it possible to meet different process conditions (various material, billet diameter etc.).

Moreover, for lower frequencies the penetration depth of the electromagnetic field inside a work-piece is higher, whereby the heating time particularly in materials with poor thermal conductivity can be significantly reduced. In this regard, a new high efficient coil technology was developed. It is not only able to increase

1. EMA Indutec GmbH. 2. Russ Elektroofen GmbH & Co. KG. 3. Corresponding author.

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for induction billet heaters (Fig. 2b) offers the possibility of using an adjustable fixed frequency in order to ensure a constant heating quality.

While common systems operate with independent working heating zones, every heating zone (usually four to six) needs its own inverter. A further improvement of the new technology allows maximum process control with only one inverter output. This enables a more compact design and additionally reduces the investment costs.

Conclusion This trade-off between quality and an improved price/performance ratio can make the induction technology more attractive on the field of billet heating for extrusion processes. The first induction billet heater of this type has been put into operation in 2015. Other deliveries are currently planned.  References

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Fig 2. Basic structure of a) a common parallel circuit converter and b) the new direct converter. Omission of the compensation capacitors and output chokes provides massive cost and place savings

the performance but also to eliminate the previously mentioned disadvantages of common induction billet heaters. By reducing the reactive power and increasing the power factor at the same time, the new technological concept makes it possible to dispense with an expensive

compensation unit for the reactive current.

This has a further positive effect. Common parallel circuit resonant converters have permanent fluctuations around its nominal or resonant frequency, which leads to fluctuation of all other process parameter. The new direct converter layout

[1] Extrusion, M. Bauser, G. Sauer, K. Siegert, Aluminium-Verlag, 2006 [2] Applied Metal Forming: Including FEM Analysis, Henry S. Valberg, Cambridge University Press, 2010 [3] Numerische Simulation der Frequenzabhängigkeit des Wirkungsgrades bei Induktionsrinnenöfen im Niederfrequenzbereich, Ulrich Lüdtke, Ninh Tran, Workshop Elektroprozesstechnik: 4.-5.

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The system features five unwinding spools for different strip widths. A dancer regulator is located prior to each winding spool, which ensures constant belt tension.

In order to ensure a cut as free of burring as possible within narrow tolerances and in spite of the thin, sensible material, the company uses a special high-precision splitting machine from Burghardt + Schmidt GmbH. Source: Alcotec Aluminium Coil Technology GmbH

Source: Alcotec Aluminium Coil Technology GmbH

Processing the thinnest-possible aluminium or copper panels into narrow strips is Alcotec’s speciality. These strips are used, for example, for coils and in transformers.

Source: Alcotec Aluminium Coil Technology GmbH

Quality standards require special production technology Christine Gaßel* explains The requirements of conductive materials are increasing along with the increasing performance demands of the electrical industry: Today, the strips used in motors and transformers, for example, must be light, robust, and especially precise.

In order to address this demand, Alcotec Aluminium Coil Technology GmbH was founded early in 2013 and specialises in slit strips consisting of aluminium and copper and coils consisting of anodised aluminium, and they are also able to produce strips greater than 0.03mm thick and 3mm wide at the facility in Ennepetal.

To enable thin aluminium to be machined with such small dimensions, the company uses a high-precision slitting machine adjusted especially to the material from Burghardt + Schmidt GmbH. For this purpose, these experts have integrated multiple dancer regulators to enable low, but constant belt tension and tension-free

cutting in addition to a very exact shearing mechanism.

“Due to their low weight and high temperature stability, coils consisting of anodised aluminium are now in high demand for motors, throttles, and loadlifting magnets in electronics as an alternative to copper,” explains Eckard Schmitz, Commercial General Manager of Alcotec.

The company produces the slit strips required for this according to the strict quality requirements of the industry and additional thin bands consisting of copper and aluminium, for example for transformer construction: “In both of these areas, the customer places high value on burrless cut edges and a tidy coil pattern. We also need to produce within very narrow width tolerances, even for narrow strips greater than 3mm.”

The properties of the material make

these demands very challenging during production: The aluminium panels used are only around 0.03 to 0.3mm thin, which is why the slitting machine is only able to apply very low belt tension, since this ensures a unified coil pattern and keep the risk of edge bow curvature low.

Depending on the thickness, the yield point of the aluminium is 80 to 280 N/ mm² and the tensile strength amounts to 100 to 300 N/mm². At the same time, tension-free cutting without wrapping must be possible so that the shears are able to work exactly and the strips are separated at the width required with little burring. For this reason, Alcotec ordered its own high-precision slitting machine for narrow strips from Burghardt + Schmidt GmbH. “During consulting regarding an investment in this kind of machine, it quickly became clear to us that this would only be possible with the experience and

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“After just a few days of familiarisation, the system’s production was outstanding. The dancer regulator functions simply and enables precise winding,” reports the Technical General Manager of Alcotec, Volker Wandelt (on left), who directs the company together with Eckard Schmitz (on right). Source: Alcotec Aluminium Coil Technology GmbH

expertise of the manufacturer,” explains Schmitz.

Special cutting and coiling system for strips greater than 3mm The core of the system is the shearing mechanism, which is able to position exactly thanks to the exact pre-tensioned rolling bearings and clearance-free line guide. The integrated knives feature a diameter of 130mm and may be combined with rubberised or steel ejector rings. In a single run, an operating speed > 100 m/min may be applied for a maximum of six cuts up to five times, depending on material strength and thickness. A gauge featuring 0.01mm precision indicates the plunging depth of the knives during the process.

Because the widths of the cut strips differ and a tidy coil was required, various winding mechanisms were integrated to accept the strips; three for 3 to 30mm and one each for 30 to 100 and 30 to 200mm.

The two 4 to 8mm wide edge strips are coiled and sorted out separately. The strips are separated in a controlled manner via a deflecting separator mechanism, which also features rolling bearings. To enable convenient conversion of the system for diverse order requirements, the winding shafts may work with coils as well as sleeves, which may easily be replaced thanks to the quick-change clasp on the spool shaft.

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case, equal belt tension adjusted to the sensitivity of the thin aluminium panel was also decisive, which is why Burghardt + Schmidt integrated sensitive dancer systems on both the in-feed and the outfeed.

The swivel-mounted rollers provide exact, smooth running and balance out even the slightest fluctuations in tension. The first regulator on the in-feed side of the deflection roller between the unwinding spool and the shears enable fluid regulation of the tension between 6 and 500 N. Additional dancers are located prior to the winding spools according to the various strip types. As such, the thin strips are only subject to 0.72 to 72 N, while the tension on the wide strips may be between 20 and 600 N. Integrated encoders ensure secure position recording in both areas.

The desired belt tension may be set conveniently for the electrical motors via the system’s control panel, and additional control of the five dancers at the winding spools takes place automatically. “In this case, a single reference positioning run must be completed for the system.

Afterwards, it’s sufficient to specify the material parameter, e.g. thickness, width at in-feed, specific belt tension and strip width at the coiling spools, at the main control panel, and the dancers adjust themselves independently,” explains Thomas Baral, General Manager at Burghardt + Schmidt. The belt edge controller also corrects the position of the material running off of the unwinding spool in order to create the best-possible initial conditions for cutting. The system includes an opto-electrical sensor unit including measuring light barrier, an electronic control amplifier, and the actual control device, which is used to control the electrical and mechanical linear drive for the positioning.

Controls For easy operability, a central control panel uses a Siemens touch display, which displays fault messages, system speeds, and similar information in addition to data entry. Additional auxiliary control panels are provided at the unwinding spool, the splitting machine shears, and at three locations at the coiling spools.

This enables important values for quality and operating safety to be adjusted everywhere as required in order to ensure problem-free production in spite of the difficult raw production material.

The high-precision splitting machine is currently still operating in single shifts, but expansion to two to three shifts is already planned.  Contact www.alcotec.com

The clearance-free roller bearing sheers enable up to six very exact simultaneous cuts for strip widths greater than 3 mm. It is suitable for rubberised or steel ejector rings.

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Aluminium and automotive: Together in electric dreams Every year the complexity of the electrical components in new cars continues to increase.

Guilio Properzi* explains aluminium’s role.

Today it seems that a new luxury car or sports car, or even an SUV, is a complex system of electric/electronic gadgets moving on the road while in the recent past a car was a body, a motor and four wheels.

This means that thousands of signals and thousands of power connections are necessary through electric wires.

These wires were and, in large part, are still thin copper wires but because of the metal price and because of the copper weight, car manufactures have always dreamed of substituting copper with less expensive, lighter aluminium wire.

Studies and applications were done 4045 years ago, but because of its low tensile and creep effect, all hopes of substituting copper even in the less demanding building wire market were destroyed.

Creep is a non-elastic, time and temperature dependent deformation.

Creep is observed in all metal but in the case of aluminium it becomes harmful in the low temperature range of 150°C – 300°C. Creep can cause the joints (connections) to become loose causing unstable electrical contact or even potential fire hazards.

This is why during recent years, automotive manufacturers and prominent cable companies have studied new Al Alloys just to achieve a minimum tensile strength of 110 MPa (annealed) and a conductivity of 58% IACS or more (a small

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sacrifice compared with 64% IACS of pure aluminium). Through parallel efforts by the above manufacturers great results have been obtained with new crimp terminals (joints).

Aluminium wire was first used in cars for automobile battery cables but today its use in a range of applications where the cross sectional area of the conductor is max. 2.5mm2, i.e. the size for wiring harnesses, is a quickly developing reality.

The new alloys, independently developed by several top Producers worldwide like Sumitomo, Furukawa, Midal, Trimet, Alcoa, Alcan and others, contain about 98.5% Al and use Fe as the main alloying element with additions of some Mg and Cu. Some are designated as 8000 series; some as 1000 series; some have proprietary names.

Producing this kind of rod is only the first step. The 9.5mm rod must be drawn to unusual diameters (0.16 – 0.25mm) in multiwire machines. Also bunching is

a delicate operation so the rod quality is fundamental for the productivity of the entire process.

These alloys are not complex alloys with high percentages of other elements, as written above, but are very delicate to produce and the casting parameters must be stable and precisely controlled. The rolling sequence must provide minimum tension and constant flow in each pass to avoid even minor surface defects. Also for the rod take-up, only state of the art double automatic coilers can provide the drawing shop with undamaged coils of rod weighing 2,000kg or more.

After considering the above process parameters, it was clear that using the “billet casting and extrusion” method was not viable as it induced problems with coarse Al-Fe compounds making the rod/ wire brittle and difficult to process.  Contact www.properzi.com

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AVS Inc. 60 Fitchburg Road, Ayer MA 1432, United States Mr Mark Sowerbutts T: +1 978-772-0710 E: sales@avsinc.com W: www.avsinc.com

Adwest Technologies 151 Trapping a Brook Road, Wellsville New York 14895, United States Mr Brian Cannon T: +1 585-593-1405 E: bcannon@cecoenviro.com W: www.adwestusa.com

Allied Trading International Ltd. 1, Makram Ebeid St. City Light Bld. Floor 8, office C4, Nasr City, Cairo 11371, Egypt Mr. Mohamed Hassan Nasr T: +2 01222 152714 E: info@atiltrading.com W: www.atiltrading.com

Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Dieselstrasse 3, Plettenberg, 58840 North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Dipl.-Ing. Stephan Holze T: +49 2391 817-0 E: info@BEKA-Feuerfest.de W: www.BEKA-Feuerfest.de

AEG Power Solutions GmbH Emil-Siepmann-Str. 32 59581 Warstein, Germany Yilmaz Cavus T: +49 2902 763267 E: yilmaz.cavus@aegps.com W: www.powercontoller.com AFC-Holcroft 49630 Pontiac Trail, Wixom, Michigan 48393, United States Mr. Tracy Dougherty T: +1 248-624-8191 E: sales@afc-holcroft.com W: www.afc-holcroft.com AFECO HEATING SYSTEMS F23 Midc Indutrial Area,Gokulshirgaon Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India Mr. Prakash Maladkar Engineer T: +91 982 205 6316 E: maladkar@afecoheating.com W: www.afecoheating.com AICHELIN Holding GmbH Fabriksgasse 3, 2340 Moedling, Austria Harald Berger T: +43 2236 23646 0 E: marketing@aichelin.com W: www.aichelin.com AIF Engineering Private Limited B-18, Sector IX, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 110019, India Mr. Sandeep Mathur T: +91 120 4208752 E: info@aif.co.in W: www.aif.co.in Air Control Industrial S.L. Paseo Sarroeta, 4 Donostia-San Sebastián 20014 Gipuzkoa, Spain Mr. Ben Parhan T: +34 943 445080 E: bparhan@aircontrol.es W: www.aircontrol.es/en Air Products and Chemicals, Inc 7201 Hamilton Boulevard Allentown PA 18195, United States Ms Marie Kistler T: +1 800 654 4567 E: gigmrktg@airproducts.com W: www.airproducts.com/metals AJ Charnaud & Company (Pty) Ltd Unit 13, Cranberry Street Industrial Park, Laserpark, Honeydew, Johannesburg 2170 Gauteng South Africa Mr AJ Charnaud T: +27 117 946040 E: marketing@charnaud.co.za W: www.charnaud.co.za

Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC 218-B Mechanic Street, PO Box 256, Waterville Ohio 43566, United States Mr. Rick Smith T: +1 419-878-4691 E: info@allstatesrefractory.com W: www.allstatesrefractory.com Almor Group Daleside Road Nottingham, NG2 3GJ, United Kingdom Mrs Ashley Morrell-Swain T: +44 (0)115 986 8773 E: ashley.m-swain@almor.co.uk W: www.almor.co.uk AMECO USA 4600 West 160 Street, Cleveland OH 44135, United States Mr. David Kloss T: +1 440-899-9400 E: sales@ameco-usa.com W: www.ameco-usa.com ANH Refractories Europe Ltd Pyramid Works, Dock Road South Bromborough, Wirral CH62 4SP United Kingdom Mr Peter Rooney T: +44 (0)151 641 5900 E: sales@anheurope.co.uk W: www.anheurope.co.uk ANT FURNACES 1500 Mariner Drive, Oxnard CA 93033 United States Mr G Eric Gisonno T: +1 877 367 2025 E: egisonno@antfurnaces.com W: www.antfurnaces.com Apogee Technology, Inc. 1600 Hulton Road, PO BOX 101 Verona PA 15147, United States Mr. Scott Stauffer T: +1 412 795 8782 E: info@apogee-technology.com W: www.apogee-technology.com ARUN Technology 16 The Brunel Centre, Newton Road Crawley, West Sussex RH10 9TU United Kingdom Mr Lee Lythe T: +44 (0)1293 513123 E: sales@aruntechnology.com W: www.aruntechnology.com Ascon Tecnologic North America 1111 Brookpark Road, Cleveland OH 44321, United States Sales Manager Rick Pelton T: +1 216-485-8350 E: info@ascontec-na.com W: www.ascontecnologic.com

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Calderys 17/19 place de la Résistance, 92446 Issy Les Moulineaux Cedex, France Mr Sébastien Duguet T: +33(0)1 41 08 11 00 E: info@calderys.com W: www.calderys.com Calderys Refractory Solutions 6th, Fidvi Towers, Mount Road, Nagpur MHR 440001, India Mr Devendra Singh T: +91 962 345 2458 E: devendra.singh@calderys.com W: www.calderys.com Calderys Refractory Taiwan NO. 6-6, Hsing-Tien Road, Hsin-Nan Tsun, Kao-Shu Shiang, Ping Tung Hsien 906, Taiwan Mr Franklin Hung T: +886 8 796 5562 E: taiwan@calderys.com W: www.calderys.com

Bekaert Solaronics Z.I n°3 rue du kemmel, 59280 Armentières, France Mr Charles Precheur T: +33 0320105949 E: sales.ncdcoating@bekaert.com W: http://drying.bekaert.com

CAN-ENG Furnaces International Ltd 6800 Montrose Road, Niagara Falls Ontario L2E 6V5, Canada Tim Donofrio T: +1 905-356-1327 E: furnaces@can-eng.com W: www.can-eng.com

BEST - Balikesir Elektromekanik Sanayi Tesisleri AS OSB -Organize Sanayi Bölgesi 7. Cad. No:1, 10050 Balikesir, Turkey Osman Aydiner T: +90 266 281 10 70 E: best@besttransformer.com W: www.besttransformer.com

Carbolite Ltd Parsons Lane, Hope, Derbyshire S33 6RB United Kingdom Mr Paul Birchmore T:+44 (0)1433 620011 E: info@carbolite.com W: www.carbolite.com

Borel Swiss SA Place Pury 3, Neuchâtel CH-2000, Switzerland Mr Arnaud Libis T: +41 32 756 64 00 E: mail@borel.eu W: www.borel.eu

Carbon International Ltd Brigg Road, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire DN16 1AX United Kingdom Mr Tim Edwards T: +44 (0)1724 280801 E: sales@carboninternational.co.uk W: www.carboninternational.co.uk

Brasco International 650 Dutord, Bécancour G9H 2Z5, Canada Mr Peter Nobre T: +1 819 380 8498 E: p.nobre@brascolinings.com British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) The NMC, 47 Birmingham Road West Bromwich B70 6PY United Kingdom Mr Phil McCarthy T: +44 (0)1216016715 E: enquiry@bifca.org.uk W: www.bifca.org.uk Busch (UK) Ltd Hortonwood 30, Telford Shropshire TF1 7YB, United Kingdom Mr Mark Sumnall T: +44 (0)1952 677432 E: sales@busch.co.uk W: www.busch.co.uk BWG Bergwerk- und Walzwerk-Maschinenbau GmbH Mercatorstr. 74-78 47051 Duisburg, Germany Dirk Schaefer T: +49 203 99290 E: bwg@bwg-online.de W: www.bwg-online.com BWG Machinery Corporation 111 Haven Ridge, Peachtree City Georgia 30269, United States Mr. Joseph Heiman T: +1 770-969-9199 E: joe.heiman@bwgmachinery.com W: www.bwgmachinery.com

Cardinal Refractories Inc. 3385 Harvester Road, Suite #240 Burlington, Ontario L7N 3N2, Canada Mr.+1 Paul Thibodeau T: (419) 307-2184 W: www.stellarcanadainc.com

F1 Chapman Brack Contractors Ltd Faith Works, Club Mill Road Sheffield S6 2FH, United Kingdom Mr Paolo Perkins E: paolo@chapmanbrack.co.uk W: www.chapmanbrack.co.uk Charter Tech Ltd Sandford Lane, Wareham Dorset BH20 4DY, United Kingdom Mr Paul Burns T: +44 (0)1929553000 E: paul.burns@charter-tech.com W: www.charter-tech.com Chemtool - Tenaxol Heat Treat Products 801 W. Rockton Rd. Rockton IL 61072, United States Mr. Shawn Tunks T: +1(815) 957-4140 E: sales@chemtool.com W: www.tenaxol.com CIMSAMEX Carretera a laredo Km. 16.5 Col Moises Saenz, Apodaca, Nuevo Leon 66602, Mexico Jose Maldonado T: +52(81)83852960 E: sales@chemtool.com W: www.cimsamex.com Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd Summerton Road, Oldbury Birmingham, West MidlandsB69 2EL United Kingdom Mr Rob Kirk T: +44 (0)121 511 1203 E: rk@claytonholdings.com W: www.Claytonholdings.com CMI Greenline Europe 38 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 77210 Avon, France Mr Roland Hequet T: +33 6 27010052 E: roland.hequet@cmigroupe.com W: www.cmigroupe.com Cockerill Maintenance & Ingenerie (CMI) Avenue Greiner 1 4100 Seraing, Belgium Mr Luc Malpas E: luc.malpas@cmigroupe.com W: www.cmigroupe.com

Castolin Eutectic Ch. de la Venoge 7, St-Sulpice 1025 Switzerland E: info@castolin.com W: www.castoliln.com

COMBUSTOL Estrada Turística do Jaraguá, 358 São Paulo SP 05161-000, Brazil Mr. Argemiro Sieiro T: +55 11 3906-3000 E: faleconosco@combustol.com.br W: www.combustol.com.br

CCPI Inc. 838 Cherry Street, Blanchester OH 45107, United States Mr. Mike Brausch T: +1 937 783 2476 E: mbrausch@ccpi-inc.com W: www.ccpi-inc.com

CONDAT Lubricants 104 Avenue Frédéric Mistral 38670 Chasse-sur-Rhône, France Mrs Franck Berne T: +33 (0)4 78 07 38 38 E: info@condat.fr W: www.condat-lubricants.com

Cellaris Refractories India Ltd Unit of Carborundum Universal Limited Plot # 8, CUMISEZ, KD plot, Ernakulam Dt., Kochi, Kerala 683109, India Mr K N Rajan T: +919994491827 E: rajankn@cumi.murugappa.com W: www.cumi-murugappa.com/

Consarc Engineering Ltd 9 Woodside, Eurocentral Holytown, North Lanarkshire ML1 4XL United Kingdom Mr A Kay T: +44 (0)1698 730430 E: sales@consarceng.com W: www.consarceng.com

CFT Carbon Furnaces Technologies B.V. Curieweg 7, Spijkenisse ZH 3218 KJ Netherlands Ing Peter Van Varik T: +31 18166 9050 E: vanvarik@carbonft.nl W: www.carbonft.nl

Consolidated Engineering Company Business 1971 McCollum Pkwy NW Kennesaw Georgia 30144, United States Paul Crafton T: +1 770 422 5100 E: lhoefler@cec-intl.com W: www.cec-intl.com November/December 2015

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F2 Contego Safety Solutions Wearmaster House, Malthouse Lane Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex BN6 9LA United Kingdom Mr Jim Lewis T: +44(0)1273 831800 E: info@contegosafety.co.uk W: www.contegosafety.co.uk Contract Heat Treatment Association

Federation House,10 Vyse Street Birmingham,West Midlands B18 6LT United Kingdom Mr Alan J Hick T: +44 (0)121 329 2970 E: mail@chta.co.uk W: www.chta.co.uk Control Instruments Corp.

25 Law Drive, Fairfield NJ 07004, United States Mr Jeff Sampson T: +1-973-575-9114 E: sales@controlinstruments.com W: www.controlinstruments.com

Couplings Company, Inc. 570 Bond St. Lincolnshire IL. 60069, United States Mark Hildenbrand T: +1 847-634-8990 E: sales@couplingscompany.com W: www.brassfittings.com Daniels Fans Ltd Dafen Industrial Park, Llanelli, South Wales SA14 8QR United Kingdom Mr Stuart Lloyd T: +44 (0)1554 752148 E: slloyd@danielsfans.com W: www.danielsfans.com Datapaq, Inc. 3 Corporate Park Drive, Unit 1 Derry NH 3038, United States National Sales Manager, Mr. Willoam Adaschik T: +1 603-537-2680 E: sales@datapaq.com W: www.datapaq.com Datsun Engineering and Construction Company C-12, Sai Residency, Vijay Nagar, Kalewadi, Pimpri, Pune, Pune 411017 Maharashtra, India Mr Vinod Shinde Y T: 9561259309 E: datsunprojects@gmail.com W: www.facebook.com/datsunprojects De Winter Engineering BV Houweg 2, Elst (U) 3921DB, Netherlands Mr. Ernst-Jan de Winter T: +31 318 47 1735 E: dewinter@dewinterengineering. com W: www.dewinterengineering.com DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. Corso Dante 203 14100 Asti, Italy Mr Dino Costa T: +39 3358 190132 E: dinocosta@dearsas.com W: www.dearsas.com Deepak Industries Harmesh Apt, E-10,B-Wing,Borivali (W), Poinsor, Bhatt Lane Maharashtra Mumbai, India Mr Prakash Shah T: +91 983 340 7823 E: coalcoke@yahoo.com W: www.pcf.co.in

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ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF COMPANIES Denco Lubrication Ltd Ramsden Court, Rotherwas Industrial Estate, Hereford, Herefordshire HR2 6LR United Kingdom Mr Stephen Hayward T: +44 (0)1432 365000 E: steve.hayward@bijurdelimon.co.uk W: www.bijurdelimon.co.uk DiBenedetto Appraisal Services, memeber TDI Grp. PO Box 38591 700 Blaw Aveneue, First Floor Pittsburgh PA 15238, United States Mr David DiBenedetto Sr. T: +1 412-826-4950 E: drd@tdigrp.com W: www.tdigrp.com DISMATEC Ltd Omnia One, Queen Street Sheffield, South Yorkshire S1 2DG United Kingdom Mr Michael Horsfield T: +44 (0)114 279 2618 E: info@dismatecglassplant.com W: www.dismatecglassplant.com

EGETRAC entreprise de genie civil equipement et travaux de tuyauterie & chaudronnerie 29 Rue Tahrane Quartier Industriel, Agadir, Souss Massa Daraa 80004 Morocco Mr Mohamed Eljady T: +212(6)61389986 E: egetrac@egetrac.com W: www.egetrac.com Elboy Powder Coating and Liquid Coating Systems Elbasan Way. Harput Industrial Area Cakil, Catalca, Istanbul, 34020 Marmara, Turkey Mr. Berkin Ekiz T: +90 212 544 5215 E: info@elboy.com.tr W: www.elboy.com.tr Elkem Ceramite PO Box 8126, Vaagsbygd 4675 Kristiansand, Norway Mr Robert Howard T: +47 22 45 01 00 E: robert.howard@elkem.no W: www.elkem.com

DongYang A.K 47, Wonhapgang 1-gil, Yeondong-myeon, Sejong 30067, South Korea Mr. JongHoen Kim T: +82-10-3638-3727 E: jirungi903@naver.com W: www.dyakk.co.kr

Elnik Systems LLC 107Commerce Road, Cedar Grove New Jersey 07009, United States Claus Joens T: +1- 973-239-6066 E: cjoens@elnik.com W: www.elnik.com

Doughman Quality Services, Inc. 2090 E Cypress Canyon Dr. Green Valley AZ 85614, United States Sam/Dale Doughman T: +1 425-417-0860 E: samd913@ao.com W: www.doughmanqualityservices. com

Elster Thermal Solutions Unit 9 The Croft, Buntsford Drive Bromsgrove Worcestershire, United Kingdom Mr Lee Halley T: +44 (0)1527 888820 E: lee.halley@elster.com W: www.kromschroder.co.uk

EBNER Furnaces, Inc. 224 Quadral Drive, Wadsworth Ohio 44281,United States Mr. Herbert Gabriel T: +1 330 335 1600 E: sales@ebnerfurnaces.com W: www.ebner.cc

EMG Automation GmbH Industriestr. 1, Wenden 57482 Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Karl-Heinz Fröhning E: info@emg-automation.com W: www.emg-automation.com

Eclipse, Inc 1665 Elmwood Road, Rockford IL 61103, United States Mr Jim Roberts T: +1 815-877-3931 E: info@eclipsenet.com W: www.eclipsenet.com

Energy & Environmental Services Ltd Energy House, The Stonerow Way Parkgate, Rotherham, S60 1SG United Kingdom Mr Robert Hall T: +44 (0) 1709 529631 E: enquiries@e2sl.co.uk W: www.e2sl.co.uk

Eco Technical Ceramics Units 2 & 3 Waters Meeting, Britannia Way, Bolton Greater Manchester BL2 2HH United Kingdom Mr Derek Sharp T: +44 (0)1204 533183 E: graham.bratley@ecotechnicalceramics.com W: www.ecotechnicalceramics.com Effmag Ltd. Tekniikantie 12, 2150 Espoo, Finland Mr Jari Puhakka T: +358 407 000482 E: sales@effmag.com W: www.effmag.com EGB Vacuum Ltd Unit 30, Earith Business Park Earith Cambridgeshire, PE28 3QF United Kingdom Mr Edward Barnes T: +44 (0)1487 840123 E: Sales@egb-vacuum.co.uk W: www.egb-vacuum.co.uk

ENG. ROSES INT’L Via Monferrato, 23, Cocconato 14023 ASTI, Italy Mr. Carlos Roses T: +39 329 796779 E: carlos.roses@rosesandwayler.com W: www.rosesandwayler.com Epcon Industrial Systems, LP P.O. Box 7060, The Woodlands TX 77387, United States Mr. Shan Jamaluddin T: +1 936 273 3300 E: epcon@epconlp.com W: www.epconlp.com Ernst B Westman Ltd 43, Lower Street,Merriott, Somerset, TA16 5NL, United Kingdom Mr Peter Westman T: +44 (0)1823 321844 E: ebw@dircon.co.uk W: www.ebwestman.co.uk Esotermica Srl Via G. Marconi 39, Cazzago Brabbia 21020 Varese, Italy Mr. Stefano Frailis T: +39 0332 283284

E: stefano.frailis@esotermica.it W: www.esotermica.it Eurobond Adhesives Ltd Bonham Drive, Eurolink Industrial Estate, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 3RY United Kingdom Mr Simon Dearing T: +44 (0)1795 427888 E: sales@eurobond-adhesives.co.uk W: www.eurobond-adhesives.co.uk FEVISA Carretera San Felipe KM 9, Colonia Colorado 1, Mexicali Bajal California 21740, Mexico Mr. Fernando Soberanes V. T: +52(686)9045412 E: fernando.soberanes@fevisa.com W: www.fevisa.com FIVES Heath Brook House – Heath Mill Road Wombourne, Wolverhampton WV5 8AP United Kingdom T: +44 1902 324000 E: fivessolios-thermal@fivesgroup. com W: www.fivesgroup.com FlammaTec, spol. s r.o.

Rokytnice 60, 75501 Vsetin, Czech Republic Mr. Petr Vojtech E: info@flammatec.com W: www.flammatec.com Fredericks Company/Televac 2400 Philmont Avenue, Huntingdon Valley PA 19006 United States Anna Maria Steriti T: +1 215-947-2500 E: asteriti@frederickscompany.com W: www.frederickscompany.com Fuel Applications Ltd 104 Robert Street Hamilton, Ontario L8L 2P5 Canada Mr. Frans Osterman T: +1 905 525 9700 E: info@fuelapplications.ca W: www.fuelapplications.ca Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd 50 Howleys Road, Notting Hill Victoria 3168, Australia Mr Robert Crellin T: +61 3 9544 2922 E: info@furnace.com.au W: www.furnace.com.au G&G Steel Inc. PO Box 179, 15825 Industrial Drive Russellville, Alabama 35653 United States VP Bret Gist T: +1 256-332-6652 E: bgist@ggsteel.com W: www.ggsteel.com/contact_us.htm G&T Associates (Services) Ltd Unit 5 Tawe Business Village Phoenix Way, Swansea Enterprise Park, Swansea SA7 9LA United Kingdom Mr Ray Jones T: +44 (0) 1792 321202 E: ray.jones@gtassociates.co.uk W: www.gtassociates.co.uk Garden City Fan Company, Div of Howden 1701 Terminal Road, Suite B Niles, Michigan 49120 United States John Tiffany T: +1 269-687-1248 E: john.tiffany@howden.com W: www.howden.com

Gaskets Inc 301 W. HWY. 16, Rio WI 53960 United States Dan Tomlinson T: +1 920-992-3137 E: info@gasketsinc.com W: www.gasketsinc.com GEA Process Engineering Inc. 9165 Rumsey Road, Columbia MD 21045, United States Mr Peter Tsai T: +1 410-997-8700 E: Peter.tsai@gea.com W: www.gea.com Gefran Via Sebina 74, Provaglio d’Iseo (BS) Brescia, Italy Mrs Paola Frittoli T: +39 030 98881 E: info@gefran.com W: www.gefran.com Gefran, Inc. 8 Lowell Ave., Winchester MA 1890, United States Mr. John Rylands T: +1 888-888-4474 E: john.rylands@gefran.com W: www.gefran.com General Glass Equipment Company, Inc. P.O. Box 711, Absecon NJ 8201, United States Mr Stephen Thomas T: +1 609-345-7500 E: genglass@generalglassequipment. com W: www.generalglassequipment.com

GHI Hornos Industriales S.L. Aperribay 4, Galdakao 48960 Bizkaia, Spain Mr. Ana I. Portilla T: +34 944491600 E: aiportilla@ghihornos.com W: www.ghihornos.com Gillespie & Powers, Inc. 9550 True Drive, St. Louis MO 63132, United States Mr Ian Marsh T: +1 314-423-9460 E: bids@gillespiepowers.com W: www.gillespiepowers.com Glass Service, a.s.

Rokytnice 60, 75501 Vsetin, Czech Republic Mr. Petr Chmelar E: info@gsl.cz W: www.gsl.cz Glass Strand Inc. 17434 Mesa Street Hesperia CA 92345, United States Mr Charles Coggin JR T: +1 760 949 3367 E: fiber1@glass-strand.com W: www.glass-strand.com Glaston Finland Oy Vehmaistenkatu 5 33730 Tampere, Finland Mr. Pekka Nieminen T: +358 1050 0500 E: info@glaston.net W: www.glaston.net Global Oven Systems BV Hooge Zijde 10 Eindhoven 5626 DC

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ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF COMPANIES Netherlands Mr Pim Kuijten T: +31 40 2619831 E: info@gosystems.nl W: www.globalovensystems.nl GMC for Glass Industry 1 B Rue Eugene Marechal, 69200 Venissieux, France M Marmonier Guy E: gmc@gmcforglass.fr W: www.gmcforglass.fr

GNA alutech inc.

9495 Trans Canada Hwy Saint-Laurent, Quebec H4S 1V3 Canada Mr. Ted Phenix T: +1 514 956 1776 E: tphenix@gna.ca W: www.gna.ca

Granco Clark, Inc. 7298 Storey Road, Belding, Michigan 48809, United States Mr. Michael Werner T: +1-800-918-2600 E: gcinfo@grancoclark.com W: www.grancoclark.com Graphite Sales Inc. 16710 West Park Circle Drive, Chagrin Falls OH 44023, United States Mr. William Apar T: +1 800-321-4147 E: bapar@graphitesales.com W: www.graphitesales.com Grieve Corporation 500 Hart Road, Round Lake Illinois 60073, United States Frank Calabrese T: +1 847-546-8225 E: sales@grievecorp.com W: www.grievecorp.com Gulf Coast Environmental Systems 1689 Hawthorne Dr., Conroe Texas 77301, United States Caitlin Parsley T: +1 832 476 9024 E: cparsley@gcesystems.com W: www.gcesystems.com/ Gulf Plus - Kuwait PO box 26996, Safat 13130, Kuwait Mr. Eby Mathew T: +965 2228 5545 E: emathew@gulf-plus.com W: www.gulf-plus.com Gund Company, The 2121 Walton Rd,.

St. Louis, Missouri 63114 United States Joeseph Bradlo T: +1 314-492-4800 E: jbradlo@thegundcompany.com W: www.thegundcompany.com H F Furnaces Quartz House, 20 Clarendon Road Redhill, Surrey RH1 1QX United Kingdom Mrs E Horn T: +44 (0)1737 855136 E: esmehorn@quartzltd.com

Harper International 4455 Genesee St, Suite 123 Buffalo, New York 14225 United States Mr. John Imhoff T: +1 716-276-9900 E: info@harperintl.com W: www.harperintl.com

Hi-Tech Furnace Systems, Inc. 13179 West Star Drive, Shelby Township MI 48315 United States Robert Kornfeld T: 586-566-0600 E: info@hi-techfurnace.com W: www.hi-techfurnace.com

Hatch Associates 5 Place Ville Marie, Montreal Quebec H3B 2G2, Canada Mr Joe Petrolito T: +1 514 833 6202 E: jpetrolito@hatch.ca W: www.hatch.com.ca

HOBRA - Skolnik s.r.o.

Smetanova ul., 55001 Broumov, Czech Republic Vojtech Skolnik E: skolnik.vojtech@hobra.cz W: www.hobra.cz

Hays Cleveland 1111 Brookpark Road, Cleveland Ohio 44109, United States Mr. Steve Craig T: +1 (216) 398-4414 E: scraig@unicontrolinc.com W: www.hayscleveland.com Helipebs Controls Limited Sisson Road, Gloucester Gloucestershire GL2 0RE United Kingdom Mr John Anderton T: +44 (0)1452 423201 E: sales@helipebs.co.uk W: www.helipebs-controls.co.uk HENCON de Stenenmaat 15, PO Box 16, ULFT 7071 ED, Netherlands Gerrit Hiddink T: +31 315 683941 E: ghiddink@hencon.com W: www.hencon.com Henry F. Teichmann, Inc. 3009 Washington Road, McMurray PA 15323,United States Mr. Christopher Yoest T: +1 724 941 9550 E: customerinquiry@hft.com W: www.hft.com Hertwich Engineering GmbH Weinbergerstr. 6, 5280 Braunau, Austria Ms. Elke Deubler T: +43 7722 806-0 E: info@hertwich.com W: www.hertwich.com HGH Infrared Systems 10 rue Maryse Bastié, 91430 Igny, France Mrs Isabelle Toutant T: +33 16935 4770 E: hgh@hgh.fr W: www.hgh.fr High Tech Tubes Ltd Unit 15F, Wintersells Business Park Byfleet, Surrey KT14 7LF United Kingdom Mr Jim Whiteley T: +44 (0)1932-355440 E: sales@hightechtubes.co.uk W: www.hightechtubes.co.uk High Temp Measurement LLC 228 Cedar Woods Way, Canton GA 30114, United States Ken Costello T: +1 404-435-4343 E: kcostello@hightempmeasurement. com W: www.hightempmeasurement.com Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd 17, Phase-1,Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore, Karnataka 560058, India Mr Nagarjun Sakhamuri T: +91 80 4193 1000 E: nagarjun@hhv.in W: www.hhv.in

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Hormesa-Conticast Group C/ Las Marineras Nº 13 - 17, Ajalvir 28864, Madrid, Spain Mr Gonzalo Aguirre T: +34 91 887 40 39 E: hormesa@hormesa.com W: www.hormesa-group.com Hotwork 223 Gold Rush Rd, Lexington, Kentucky 40503 United States Sanford Ralsten T: 1-859-276-1570 E: sandy.ralsten@hotwork.com W: www.hotwork.com

T: +44 (0)1142 422111 E: sales@labels-for-metal.com W: www.labels-for-metal.com Industrial Gas Engineering P.O. Box 316, 130 East Quincy Street, Westmont IL 60559-0316 United States Mr. Dean Keal T: +1 630-968-4440 E: sales@igefans.com W: www.igefans.com Industrial Television Ltd 3 Evans Business Centre, Nobel Way Dinnington, South Yorkshire, S25 3QB United Kingdom Peter Downs T: +44 (0)1909 517100 E: enquiries@industrial-tv.com W: www.industrial-tv.com INFICON 2 Technology Place, E. Syracuse NY 13057, United States Naomi Kissel-Johns T: +1-315-434-1100 E: reachus@inficon.com W: www.inficon.com

F3 Andheri West, Maharashtra, Mumbai India Mr Sanjay Aggarwal T: +91 22 2673 1083 E: sanjay@kandi.co.in W: www.kandi.co.in Kennedy Eurotech 4 Oak Point, Newnan GA 30263 United States Mr Al Kennedy T: +1 770 304 1000 E: alkennedy@usa.net W: www.alkennedy.com Kilns and Furnaces Ltd Cinderhill Trading Estate, Weston Coyney Road, Longton, Stoke On Trent ST3 5JU United Kingdom Mrs Paula Ellis Dainty T: +44 (0)1782 344270 E: sales@kilns.co.uk W: www.kilns.co.uk Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG Alfredstr. 28, 45130 Essen NRW, Germany Christian Hamers T: +49 2017293422 E: ch.hamers@kuettner.com W: www.kuettner.com

Hotwork Australia Pty Ltd 12/77 Newton Rd, Wetherill Pk 2164 NSW Australia Jason Tomkins T: +61 02 9756 1243 E: hotwork@bigpond.net.au W: www.hotwork.com

Innoval Technology Beaumont Close, Banbury, Oxon OX1 1TQ United Kingdom Ms Helen Forrest T: +44 (0)1295 702800 E: enquiries@innovaltec.com W: www.innovaltec.com

Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Bretton Street, Savile Town, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire WF12 9DB United Kingdom Mr Denis Hunzinger T: +44 (0) 1924 506506 E: info@hotworkct.com W: www.hotworkct.com

Ircon, Inc. 1201 Shaffer Road, Bldg. 2, Santa Cruz CA 95060, United States National Sales Manager, Mr. William Adaschik T: +1 831-458-3900 E: sales@ircon.com W: www.ircon.com

Land instruments international Stubley lane, Dronfield, Derbyshire S18 1DJ United Kingdom Mr Stuart Hattis T: +44 (0)1246 417691 E: land.infrared@ametek.co.uk W: www.landinst.com

Istrabenz plini d.o.o.

Sermin 8a, 6000 Koper, Slovenia Mr Andrej Dezjot T: +386 5 6634600 E: andrej.dezjot@istrabenzplini.si W: www.istrabenzplini.si

Lenox Instrument Company, Inc. 265 Andrews Rd., Trevose PA 19053, Canada Bill Lang T: +1 215-322-9990 E: sales@lenoxinst.com W: www.lenoxinst.com

Izocam Company Tarsus Adana Karayolu 6.km, PK69 Tarsus, 33401 Mersin,Turkey Mr. Koray Temucin E: temucin@izocam.com.tr W: www.izocam.com.tr

LEWCO, Inc. 706 Lane Street, Sandusky Ohio 44870, United States Mr. Jude Guerra T: +1 419-625-4014 E: ovensales@lewcoinc.com W: www.lewcoinc.com

Hotwork International AG Romanshornerstrasse 123, 9322 Egnach,Switzerland Benjamin Köster T: +41 71 649 20 90 E: benjamin.koester@hotwork.ag W: www.hotwork.ag Hutni projekt Frydek Mistek a.s.

28. rijna1495, 73941 Frydek Mistek,Czech Republic Ing Daniel Pustka T: +420 603278673 E: dpustka@hpfm.cz W: www.hpfm.cz

Jasper GmbH Boenninghauser Str. 10, Geseke 59590 NRW, Germany Peter Klatecki E: info@jasper-gmbh.de W: www.jasper-gmbh.de

I.LE.S. Srl Via Vittorio Veneto 7, Pianengo CR I-2610, Italy Mr Arrigo Branchi T: +39 03737 4937 E: info@iles.it W: www.iles.it

JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd Unit 13 Credenda Road, West Bromwich B70 7JE United Kingdom Mr Steve Smee T: +44 (0)121 552 2787 E: sales@jlsfurnacesuk.com W: www.jlsfurnacesuk.com

IAS GmbH Am Großen Teich 27, Iserlohn 58640 NRW, Germany Dipl.-Ing. Gerhard Kleinert E: sales@ias-induction.com W: www.ias-induction.com

Kahn Instruments, Inc. 885 Wells Road, Wethersfield CT 06109, United States Mr. Bob Bailey T: +1 860-529-8643 E: hygros@kahn.com W: www.kahn.com

IML Labels & Systems Ltd 441 Brightside Lane Sheffield S9 2RS, United Kingdom Mr Neil Dunn

Kandi Engineering Pvt Ltd F-301 Remi Bizcourt, Shah Industrial Estate, Off Veera Desai Road,

L&L Special Furnace Co., Inc. 2O Kent Road, Aston PA 19014, United States Nancy Kester T: +1 610-459-9216 E: sales@llfurnace.com W: www.llfurnace.com

Lias Industrial Ltd Suite 8 Rockfield House, 512 Darwen Road, Bromley Cross, Bolton, BL7 9DX United Kingdom Mr Matthew Armstrong T: +44 (0)1204 594941 E: info@liasindustrial.co.uk W: www.liasindustrial.co.uk Linn High Therm GmbH Heinrich-Hertz-Platz 1 92224 Eschenfelden, Germany Mr Horst Linn T: +49 9665 9140 E: info@linn.de W: www.linn.de Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies Av. Almirante Gago Coutinho, 56 10th Dt/Ft, 1749-041 Lisboa, Portugal Mr. Jorge Alves T: +351 218 429 270 E: jorge.alves@lizmon.com W: www.lizmontagens.com November/December 2015

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LOI Thermprocess GmbH Am Lichtbogen 29, 45141 Essen, Germany Mrs. Hildegard Engels T: +49 (0)201 1891-1 E: loi@tenova.com W: www.tenova.com

Magneco/Metrel, Inc. 223 W. Interstate Rd., Addison, Illinois 60101, United States Mr. Mark Taylor T: +1(630)543-6660 E: marketing@magneco-metrel.com W: www.magneco-metrel.com

Merkle International, Inc. 9567 US Route 20 West, PO Box 312 Galena IL 61036, United States Mr. Steven Egert T: +1 815-777-2100 E: sales@merkleintl.com W: www.merkleintl.com

Lubitech Enterprises 233 Mastermind IV, Royal Palms Aarey Colony, Goregaon(e) 400065 Mumbai,Maharashtra, India Mr Jayant Shroff T: +91 22 28790050 E: lubitechservices@yahoo.co.in W: www.lubitechenterprises.com

MAGUIN S.A.S. 2, rue Pierre Sémard 2800 Charmes, France Mr Raoul Garcia T: +33 03 23 56 63 10 E: raoul.garcia@maguin.com W: www.maguin.com

Mersen 41 avenue Jean Jaurès, 92230 Gennevilliers, France Mr David Nimmo E: calcarb@mersen.com W: www.mersen.com

Lubisol Ltd. Mladost 1, bl. 27, et. 16, ap. 120, Sofia 1750, Bulgaria Prof. S. Lyutskanov, Manager T: +359 288 44487 E: office@lubisol.com W: www.lubisol.com LumaSense Technologies Kleyerstr. 90, 60326 Frankfurt/M., Germany Stefan Schiepe T: +49 69 973 730 E: info@lumasenseinc.com W: www.lumasenseinc.com Lumetrics 1565 Jefferson Rd, #420, Rochester NY 14623, United States Steve Kelly T: +1 585-214-2455 E: sales@lumetrics.com W: www.lumetrics.com M H Detrick Company Ltd Unit 2, Glebe Road, East Gillibrands Skelmersdale,Lancashire WN8 9JP United Kingdom Mr Phil Clements T: +44 (0)1695 455574 E: sales@mhdetrick.co.uk W: www.mhdetrick.co.uk Mach one (International) Ltd Norfolk Bridge Business Park, Foley Street, Sheffield, Yorkshire S4 7YW, United Kingdom Mr Martin Fitzgerald T: +44 (0)114 2700 545 E: martin@mach-int.com W: www.mach-int.com

Major Furnace 92 Fairbank Road, Clayton South Victoria 3169, Australia Mr Andrew North T: +61 3 8558 1800 E: major@majoreng.com.au W: www.majoreng.com.au MAM Thermal Ceramics Thermal Ceramics España S.L., c/ Juan Pablo II nº6 2º-A, Castellon de la Plana, 12003 Castellon, Spain Juan Pastor E: juan.pastor@morganplc.com W: www.morganthermalceramics.com

Mid-Mountain Materials, Inc. 2731 - 77th Ave SE Ste 100, Mercer Island, Washington 98040 United States Tony Carroll T: +1 206-762-7600 E: gkr@mid-mountain.com W: www.mid-mountain.com

Marathon Monitors and Control Systems Corp (Beijing) Ltd. a member of United Process Controls No. 433, Lane 3399, Yindu Road Shanghai 201108, China Mr. You Zhuo T: +86 21 3468 0719 E: paul.gofas@group-upc.com W: www.group-upc.com

Molten Metal Equipment Innovations, Inc. 15510 Old State Road, Middlefield OH 44062, United States Mr. Mark Andes T: +1 440-632-9119 E: info@mmei-inc.com W: www.mmei-inc.com

Marina Textil Carrer Llobateres, 25-27, Pol. Industrial Santiga, Barberà del Vallès, 8210 Barcelona, Spain Mr César Andreo T: +34 937 195379 E: candreo@marinatextil.net W: www.marinatextil.net Mayflower Engineering Ltd Coleridge Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S9 5DA United Kingdom Mr Roy Allen E: rallen@mayflower-engineering.co.uk W: www.mayflower-engineering.co.uk McGill AirClean LLC 1777 Refugee Road, Columbus OH 43207, United States Mr Gerald Childress T: +1 614-829-1350 E: sales@mcgillairclean.com W: www.mcgillairclean.com

Machinery International Corp 20 Commerce Dr, North Branford Connecticut 06471, United States Steve McMillan T: +1-203-484-0400 E: steve@machyintl.com W: www.machyintl.com

McLellan & Partners Ltd Sheer House, Station Approach West Byfleet, Surrey KT14 6NL United Kingdom Mr Ian Lamb T: +44 (0)1932 343271 E: claire.willis@mclellan.co.uk W: www.mclellan.co.uk

MachTools TechnoServe Private Ltd B 207 Okhla Industrial Area, Phase I New Delhi Delhi 110020, India Mr Praveen Goyal T: +91 98106 15463 E: praveengoyal@machtools.in W: www.machtools.in

MECFOR INC. 1788, Mitis, Chicoutimi, Québec G7K 1H5, Canada Mr. Richard A. Zalzal T: +1 418 543.1632 E: mecfor@mecfor.com W: www.mecfor.com

Magma Ceramics & Catalysts Low Road, Earlsheaton Dewsbury, West Yorkshire WF12 8BU United Kingdom Mr Danny Stott T: +44 (0)1924 468201 E: enq@magmaceramics.com W: www.magmaceramics.com

Meltech Bonsall Street, Mill Hill, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB2 4DD United Kingdom Mr Peter Drever T: +44 (0)1254 691488 E: sales@meltech.co.uk W: www.meltech.co.uk

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Micropyretics Heaters International 750 Redna Terrace, Cincinnati OH 45215, United States Mr. Kevin Foston T: +513-772-0404 E: sales@mhi-inc.com W: www.mhi-inc.com

Molyneux Industries - Rails & Rail Clips 621 Cliff Mine Road, Coraopolis PA 15108, United States Mr Chip Miller T: +1 630-866-2992 E: cmiller@molyneuxindustries.com W: www.http://molyneuxindustries. com/ Monometer Holdings Limited Monometer House, Rectory Grove Leigh-on-Sea, Essex SS9 2HN United Kingdom Dr Christopher Hall T: +44 (0)1702472201 E: c.hall@monometer.com W: www.monometer.co.uk Morgan Advanced Materials Thermal Ceramics Tebay Rd, Bromborough, Wirral, CH62 3PH United Kingdom Ms Paula Constantinou T: +44 (0)151 334 4030 E: paula.constantinou@morganplc. com W: www.morganthermalceramics. com

Charlestown N.S.W. 2290, Australia Mr Peter Whiteley T: +61 412 080 526 E: munimula@bigpond.com N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd Unit 24-25 Canal Bridge Enterprise Centre, Meadow Lane Ellesmere Port, CH65 4EH United Kingdom Mr Gordon Wilkinson T: +44 (0)151 356 5888 E: g.wilkinson@ngjnorthern.com W: www.ngjnorthern.com Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA Av Nadir Dias de Figueiredo, 496 Suzano, 8613370 Sao Paulo, Brazil Mrs Melina Marquezano E: melina@nadir.com.br W: www.nadir.com.br National Basic Sensor 4921 Carverave, Trevose PA 19053 United States Mr Robert Mazzei T: +1 215-322-4700 E: sales@nationalbasicsensor.com W: www.nationalbasicsensor.com Navin Corp.

303, Rupa Plaza, Opp. Ghatkopar Rly Stn ( East), Jawahar Road Mumbai 400077, Maharashtra, India Mr Rajesh Shah T: +250 12101 E: navincorporation@vsnl.com W: www.navincorp.com NeoNickel Blackburn Walker Industrial Park, Guide Blackburn, Lancashire, BB1 2QE United Kingdom Mr Jason Marsh T: +44 (0)1254 582 999 E: SalesBlackburn@neonickel.com W: www.neonickel.com Nitrex Inc. - Chicago Operations 1900 Plain Avenue, Aurora IL 60502, United States Mr. Tom Cooper T: +1 630-851-5880 E: paul.gofas@nitrex.com W: www.nitrex.com Nitrex Inc. - Indiana Operations 350 Blue Chip Court, Franklin IN 46131,United States Mr. Erik Bates T: +1 317-346-7700 E: paul.gofas@nitrex.com W: www.nitrex.com Nitrex Inc. - Michigan Operations 822 Kim Drive, Mason MI 48854, United States Mr. Raja Gumber T: +1 517-676-6370 E: paul.gofas@nitrex.com W: www.nitrex.com

MTAG Technology AG Werkstrasse 4, CH-6021 Emmenbrücke, Switzerland Mr. Dragos Preda T: +41 412 596969 E: dragos.preda@mtag-technology. com W: www.mtag-technology.com

Nitrex Inc. - Nevada Operations 201 E. Mayflower Ave., North Las Vegas NV 89030 United States Mr. Mike Sison T: +1 702-399-1554 E: paul.gofas@nitrex.com W: www.nitrex.com

MUGOYA Ltd 3rd Floor, Prudential Building, Wabera Street, P O Box 47011-00100 Nairobi 100, Kenya Mr James Isabirye T: +254 7335 18195 E: mugoyato@africaonline.co.ke W: www.mugoyagroup.com

Nitrex Inc. West Coast Operations 441 Perrymont Avenue San Jose CA 95125, United States Mr. John Barney T: +1 408-275-0330 E: paul.gofas@nitrex.com W: www.nitrex.com

Munimula Technology P/L Unit 308, 215 Pacific Highway

Nitrex Metal 19 F, Hengxing Plaza,

89 Zhongguancun Dong Rd. Haidian District, 100190 Beijing China Mr. Jimmy Liu T: +86 (0)10 6257 3050 E: sales@nitrex.com W: www.nitrex.com Nitrex Metal GmbH C.P. 1060 Fribourg, CH-1701 Switzerland Mr. Andrzej Czelusniak T: 41-26-493-32-54 E: sales@nitrex.com W: www.nitrex.com Nitrex Metal Inc. 3474 Poirier Boulevard Montreal QC, H4R 2J5, Canada Mr. Jack Kalucki T: +1-514-335-7191 E: sales@nitrex.com W: wwwnitrex.com Nitrex Metal Sp. z o.o. ul. Jednosci 48 41-218 Sosnowiec, Poland Mr. Marcin Stoklosa T: +48 32 296 66 30 E: sales@nitrex.com W: www.nitrex.com NK Technologies 3511 Charter Park Drive San Jose, California 95136 United States Will Delsman T: +1 408-871-7510 E: sales@nktechnologies.com W: www.nktechnologies.com North West Fire Protection Ltd 21 Glendale Rd, Worsley Manchester, M28 1AZ, United Kingdom Mr Dave Obrien T: +44 (0)7887 767741 E: david.obrien33@ntlworld.com W: www.northwestfireprotectionlimited.co.uk Obninsk termoelectric company, Ltd Russian Federation, Kaluga region, Obninsk, 4 Gorkogo, Obninsk 249033 Kaluga, Russia T: +7-484-39-442-90 E: otc-market@obninsk.com W: www.otc.obninsk.com Ohio Semitronics, Inc. 4242 Reynolds Drive Hilliard OH 43026, United States Mr. Cory Forler T: +1 614-777-1005 E: Sales@ohiosemi.com W: www.ohiosemitronics.com OmegaVac Vacuum Products LLC 16045 Valley View Ave. Santa Fe Springs,CA 90670 United States Sales Manager Ron Bruckel T: +1 562-404-1511 E: ron@omegavacinc.com W: www.omegavacinc.com PCI 12201 Magnolia Ave., Riverside MO 63005, United States Mr. Frank Vonesh T: +1 951 640 8748 E: fvonesh@pcigases.com W: www.pcigases.com PCT Engineered Systems, LLC 8700 Hillandale Road, Davenport Iowa 52806 United States Mr Mark Bennett T: +1 563-285-7411 E: pct@teampct.com W: www.teampct.com

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ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF COMPANIES Permatech, Inc. 911 E. Elm St, Graham NC 27253 United States Ms Kiersten FitzGerald T: +1 336-578-7757 E: sales@permatech.net W: www.permatech.net Plansee USA LLC 115 Constitution Blvd.

Franklin MA 2038, United States Mike Ferullo T: +1 (508) 918-1276 E: furnace.construction@plansee.com W: www.plansee.com Pony International Technologies,Ltd Unit 52906, 29th Floor, Sultan Hotel Complex II, jL. Jend Gatot Subroto 12040 Jakarta, Indonesia Vinod Kumar Turki T: +62 215705610 E: info@floatprojects.com W: www.ponyinternational-ltd.com Precimeter Control AB Östra hamnen 7, 475 42 Hönö, Sweden Mr Jonatan Lindstrand T: +46 31 764 55 20 E: sales@precimeter.com W: www.precimeter.com Precision Metal Products 850 west Bradley El Cajon, California 92020 United States Mfg. Manager Forge, polish Chemmill Tracy Moore T: +1 619 448 2711 E: tracym@pmp-elcajon.com W: www.pmp-elcajon.com Process-Electronic France a member of United Process Controls Rue Thomas Edison, ZI des Tilleroyes, BP 1245, 25004 Besancon, France Mr. Emmanuel Jeanguyot T: +33 (03) 8148-3737 E: paul.gofas@group-upc.com W: www.group-upc.com Process-Electronic GmbH a member of United Process Controls Durnauer Weg 30, D-73092 Heiningen, Germany Mr. Jens Baumann T: +49(0)7161-94888-0 E: paul.gofas@group-upc.com W: www.group-upc.com Process-Electronic Sp. z o.o. a member of United Process Controls ul. Jednosci 48, 41-218 Sosnowiec, Poland Mr. Iwo Korwin T: +48 (32) 2966600 E: paul.gofas@group-upc.com W: www.group-upc.com Proctor Biomass Systems Unit 16, Churchill Way Lomeshaye Ind Estate, Nelson Lanacashire BB9 6R, United Kingdom Mr Andrew Proctor T: +44 (0)1282 617212 E: info@proctorbiomass.co.uk W: www.jamesproctor.com

United Kingdom Mr Angus Woolley T: +44 (0)1536 410999 E: sales@prosaw.co.uk W: www.prosaw.co.uk Pureflo Helmet Integrated Systems Ltd Unit 3, Focus 4, Fourth Avenue Letchworth, Hertfordshire, SG6 2TU United Kingdom Mr Barry Vincent T: +44 (0)1462 478000 E: sales@helmets.co.uk W: www.helmets.co.uk Pyrocontrole 6 bis, av du Docteur Schweitzer 69881 Meyzieu cedex, France M. Pascal Pernin E: info@pyro-controle.tm.fr W: www.pyrocontrole.com Pyromation, Inc. 5211 Industial Road Fort Wayne IN 46710, United States Mr. Scott Farnham T: +1 260-484-2580 E: sales@pyromation.com W: www.pyromation.com Qatar Aluminium Ltd Industrial Area, Mesaieed Doha, Qatar Mr Navin Indraj E: navin.indraj@qatalum.com W: www.qatalum.com Quaker Chemical B.V. Industrieweg 7 1422 AH Uithoorn, Netherlands Mr Ermin Begovic T: +31 297 544 644 E: begovice@quakerchem.com W: www.quakerchem.com RAD-CON, Inc. 13001 Athens Ave. Suite #300 Lakewood Ohio 44107, United States Mr Christopher Messina T: +1.440.871.5720 E: sales@rad-con.com W: www.RAD-CON.com Radir infra Red Temperature Systems Douglas House, Simpson Road Milton Keynes, Bucks MK1 1BA, United Kingdom Mr Peter Clarke T: +44 (0)1908 370000 E: furnaces@radir.com W: www.radir.com Radquim calzada de la viga no 2040 df 9810, Mexico Guillermo vega jr E: info@radquim.com W: www.radquim.com Radyne Corporation 211 W. Boden Street Milwaukee WI 53207, United States Mr Justin Mortimer T: +1 414-481-8360 E: sales@radyne.com W: www.radyne.com

Prolind Industrial LTDA Rod. Presidente Dutra, Km 138 Sao José dos Campos SP 12247004 Brazil Mr. Adalberto Morales T: +55 12 39085996 E: diretoria@prolind.com.br W: www.prolind.com.br

Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Route 146 & Farm To Market Road P.O. Box 551, Mechanicville New York 12118, United States Mr. Ronald Brownell T: +1 518-664-4261 E: rbrownell@raloidtool.com W: www.raloidtool.com

Prosaw Limited Unit 15 Telford Way Telford Way Industrial Estate Kettering, Northants, NN16 8UN

Rath AG Walfischgasse 14 1010 Vienna, Austria Manfred Salinger

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T: +43 1 513 44 27-0 E: info@rath-group.com W: www.rath-group.com Rath Refractories 290 Industrial Park Drive Milledgeville GA 31061, United States Mr. Tom Viverito T: +1 478-452-0015 E: tom.viverito@rath-group.com W: www.rath-usa.com Raytek Corporation 1201 Shaffer Road Santa Cruz CA 95060, United States Global Marcom Manager Arlene Lucas-Starrh Ms. T: +1 831-458-3900 E: solutions@raytek.com W: www.raytek.com Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies Hradni, 27/37 71000 Ostrava, Czech Republic Mr. Gianluca Bovio T: +4.2059611018e+011 E: lukas.bovio@refraconsulting.cz W: www.refraconsulting.cz Refractory Specialties, Inc.A Unifrax Company 230 West California Avenue P. O. Box 189 Sebring Ohio 44672, United States Mr Domenico Sciaretta T: +1 330-938-2101 E: dsciaretta@unifrax.com W: www.rsifibre.com Reintech GmbH Niels-Bohr-Strasse 5 6749 Bitterfeld, Germany Karsten Kleinert E: karsten.kleinert@reintech.de W: www.reintech.de Riedhammer GmbH Industrial Kiln Plants Klingenhofstr. 72 90411 Nuremberg, Germany Thomas Janousch T: +49 911 5218 0 E: carbon@riedhammer.de W: www.riedhammer.de RJM Metal Consultancy Ltd Worksop S81 8DD, United Kingdom Mr Richard McAlister-Martin T: +44(0)7795 624712 E: richard@rjm-metalconsultancy. co.uk Rubig Engineering 2503 Latham Street Rockford IL 61103, United States Pat Sinnott T: +1 (978) 399-8326 E: at.office@rubig.com W: www.rubig.com SAFTI 325 Newhall St. San Francisco CA 94124, United States Mr William Okeeffe E: wfo@safti.com W: www.safti.com Sandvik Heating Technology UK Ruthvenfield Road Inveralmond Industrial Estate Perth, Scotland, PH1 3ED United Kingdom Ms Karin Harpering T: +44 1738 493 300 E: sales.ukperth@sandvik.com W: www.kanthal.com Sangalli Technologies ESCO S.r.l.

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Eng. Riccardo Facca T: +39 0438 502721 E: info@sangallitechnologies.com W: www.sangallitechnologies.com

Nuno Martins T: +55.11.2254.0704 E: n.martins@setlinings.com W: www.setlinings.com

SANGRAF International S.A. Les Champs Blanc, 67 Chavannes de Bogis CH-1279 Switzerland Dr. Said Alameddine T: +41-22-776-0131 E: geneva@sangrafinternational.com W: www.sangrafintl.com

Shivang Furnaces and Ovens Industries 483 Jalaram Estate, Opp Bluecorn Winding Works, Narol-Vatva Road, Narol, Ahmedabad,Gujarat 382405, India Mr Dhiren Buch T: +91 932 701 3773 E: shivangfurnace@gmail.com W: www.shivangfurnace.co.in

Sanshin Sanwa Group 5-11-1 Toranomon 505 Holland Hills, Mori Tower Mintao ku, 105-0001 Tokyo, Japan Michie Rushlander T: -12159 E: m.rushlander@sanwacorporation.co.jp W: http://sanshinsanwa.com/

SIAD S.p.A. Via S. Bernardino, 92 24128 Bergamo, Italy Nevio Corna E: nevio_corna@siad.com W: www.siad.com

Sargeant & Wilbur, Inc. 20 Monticello Place, Pawtucket Rhode Island 02861, United States Michael Wilbur T: +1 401 726 0013 E: info@sargeantandwilbur.com W: www.sargeantandwilbue.com

Silicon Power Corporation 275 Great Valley Parkway Malvern PA 19355, United States Mr Robert Berta T: +1 610 407 4706 E: robert_berta@siliconpower.com W: www.siliconpower.com

SBP Alumina Suite 4, 571, Finchley Road, Hampstead, London, Greater London, NW3 7BN, United Kingdom Mr Clarence Nelson T: +44 (0)208 458 8212 E: sbpchemicals@yahoo.com

SK Environmental Ltd Unit 7, Greenhey Place Skelmersdale Lancashire WN8 9SB, United Kingdom Mr David Culshaw T: +44 (0)1695 714600 E: sales@skenvironmental.com W: www.skenvironmental.com

Schaefer Group, Inc., The 1500 Humphrey Ave Dayton, Ohio 45410, United States Mr. David White T: +1 937 253 3342 E: david.white@theschaefergroup.com W: www.theschaefergroup.com SCHUPP Ceramics M.E. SCHUPP Industriekeramik GmbH & Co. KG Neuhausstr. 4-10, Aachen 52078 North Rhine-Westphalia Germany Mr. Andrei Loscutov T: +49 (0)241 93677-0 E: info@schupp-ceramics.com W: www.schupp-ceramics.com SECO/WARWICK 180 Mercer St., PO Box 908 Meadville PA 16335, United States Mr Jaroslaw Talerzak T: +1 814-332-8400 E: j.talerzak@secowarwick.com.pl W: www.secowarwick.com SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Swierczewskiego 76 66-200 Swiebodzin, Poland Mr. Tomasz Kaczmarczyk T: +48 68 3819 800 E: europe@secowarwick.com W: www.secowarwick.com SEGRIF Rue Neuvice 115, B-4420 Saint-Nicholas, Belgium Mr René Stassen E: segrif@ingrif.com W: www.segrif.com

SMS Meer S.p.A. Via Udine, 103 Tarcento, (UD) 33017, Italy Mr. Simone Zussino T: +39 043 279 9253 E: sales@sms-meer.it W: www.sms-meer.com SMS group GmbH Graf-Recke-Strasse 82 40239 Dusseldorf, Germany E: fritz.bruehl@sms-group.com W: www.sms-group.com SOLO Swiss Group CP7127, Bienne 7 CH-2500 Switzerland Mr Jean-Michel Béchir T: +41 32 465 96 00 E: Mail@soloswiss.com W: www.soloswiss.com Spaci Technologies (I)PVT. LTD. 203 - 2nd Floor Shree Ram Centre OPP. Punit Nagar, Off Old Padra Road Vadodara, Gujarat 390 007, India Mr K Pathak T: +91 265 2337 763 E: bus.innv@spaco.co.in W: www.spaco.co.in Specnow Ltd Unit 30, Earith Business Park Earith, Cambs, PE28 3QF United Kingdom Mr Robert Brown T: +44 (0)1487 840123 E: sales@specnow.com W: www.specnow.com STAS Inc. 1846, rue des Outardes Chicoutimi, Quebec G7K 1H1, Canada Mr Florent Gougerot T: +1 418-696-0074 E: marketing@stas.com W: www.stas.com

Set Linings Brasil Rua Jose Pietro Garcia, 51 Capuava, Maua, São Paulo 09380-450, Brazil November/December 2015

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F6 Stellar Canada Inc. 3385 Harvester Rd. Suite 240, Burlington Ontario, L7N 3N2. Canada Mr. Donald Scott T: +1 (905) 631-1156 E: donscott@stellarcanadainc.com W: www.stellarcanadainc.com

Temperature Management Systems (Pty) Ltd PO Box 1344, 42 Ceramic Curve Alton, Richards Bay, South Africa Mr Richard Harris T: +27 35 7511471 E: enquiry@alucouple.com W: www.alucouple.com

Stolzle Flaconnage Weeland Road, Knottingley West Yorkshire, WF11 8AP United Kingdom Mr Stephen Clayton T: +44 (0)1977 607124 E: steve.clayton@stoelzle.com W: www.stoelzle.com

Tenova Re Energy GmbH Graf-Adolf-Platz 6 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany Carsten Born T: +49 211 540 976-0 E: reenergy@tenova.com W: www.tenova-reeneergy.com

Sun Systems Candeleria Y Domos SA.DE C.V. Canal De Miramontes #2362 COL. Avante, D.F. 4460 Mexico Arq Manuel Mendiola T: +55 56791428 E: ventas@sunsystems.com.mx W: www.sunsystems.com.mx Sunrock Ceramics Company 2625 S. 21st Avenue Broadview IL 60155, United States Mr. Doug Thurman T: +1 708-344-7600 E: dthurman@sunrockceramics.com W: www.sunrockceramics.com

Termia Technology 1310 Park Central Blvd South E02 Pompany Beach FL 33064 United States Eeng Claudio Goldbach T: +1 (786) 319.9935 E: chg@termia.net W: www.termia.net Testo Limited Newman Lane, Alton Hampshire GU34 2UR, United Kingdom Mr David Darton T: +44 (0)1420 544 433 E: info@testo.co.uk W: www.testolimited.com

Surface Combustion, Inc. 1700 Indian Wood Circle P.O. Box 428 Maumee OH 43537, United States Mr. Ben Bernard T: +1 419-891-7150 E: bbernard@surfacecombustion.com W: www.surfacecombustion.com

Thermal Detection Ltd. Unit 6 Ordewingate Way Primrose Hill Industrial Estate Stockton on Tees Cleveland TS19 0GA, United Kingdom Mr Neville Mitchell T: +44 (0)1642 602878 E: tdl@thermal-detection.com W: www.thermal-detection.com

Tantek Furnaces Ltd 27 Selstone Crescent, Sleights Whitby, North Yorkshire YO22 5DJ United Kingdom Mr W.G. Rayment T: +44 (0)1947810694 E: sales@tantekfurnaces.co.uk W: www.tantekfurnaces.co.uk

Thermal Engineering & Controls 48, First Floor, Cinewonder Mall Near Kapurbavadi, Ghodbunder Road Thane 400607, India Mr Suresh Koulgi T: 91-22-25892920 E: koulgi.thermalengineering@ gmail.com W: www.thermalfurnaces.com

TDI Group LLC PO Box 38657, 700 Blaw Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15238, United States Mr David DiBenedetto Sr T: +1 412-826-4950 E: drd@tdigrp.com W: www.tdigrp.com Tecalex Ctra. de Banyoles, 31 Sant Julià de Ramis 17481 Girona, Spain Mr Ramon Riera T: +34 972 172 090 E: tecalex@tecalex.net W: www.tecalex.com Technical Glass Products, Inc. 881 Callednar Blvd.

Painsville Ohio 44077, United States James Horvath T: +1 440-639-6399 E: tgp@tgpohio.com W: www.technicalglass.com

Thermal Transfer Corporation 50 North Linden Street, Duquesne Pennsylvania PA 15218 United States Mr. Timothy Ottie T: +1 412-460-4004 E: info.hcorp@hamonusa.com W: www.hamonusa.com Thermcraft, Inc. 3950 Overdale Road Winston Salem NC 27107 United States Mr. Jim Miller T: +1 336 784 4800 E: info@thermcraftinc.com W: www.thermcraftinc.com Thermetal Engineering Ltd Unit 53, Britannia Way Lichfield WS14 9UY United Kingdom Mr Clive Winters T: +44 (0)7766 104576 E: sales@thermetal.com W: www.thermetal.com

Thermo Fisher Scientific En Vallaire Ouest C, Chemin de Verney 2 1024 Ecublens, Switzerland Dr Jean-Marc Bohlen T: + 41 21 694 71 11 E: info.spectrometry@thermofisher. com W: www.thermoscientific.com/ elemental TMS Europe Ltd Unit 10 Stretfield Mill Bradwell, Hope Valley Derbyshire S33 9JT, United Kingdom Mr James Driver T: +44 (0)1433 620535 E: sales@tmseurope.co.uk W: www.tmswebshop.co.uk/ TNI Spring Technologies, LLC 87 Amlajack Way Newnan GA 30265, United States Sherri Babb T: +1 770-502-0687 E: info@tnispring.com W: www.tnispring.com TOGNI S/A Materiais Refratarios Av. Antonio Togni 2439 Pocos de Caldas MG 37704-356 Brazil Mr Livio Togni T: +55 3521012222 E: togni@togni.com.br W: www.togni.com.br Tokai Carbon Europe Roway Lane Oldbury, West Midlands V69 3EJ United Kingdom Mr Carll Daughters T: +44 (0)7793 650691 E: carl.daughters@tokaicarboneurope.com W: www.tokaicarboneurope.com Toledo Engineering Co., Inc 3400 Executive Parkway Toledo OH 43606-0927, United States Mr. Jim Davis T: +1 419-537-9711 E: jdavis@teco.com W: www.teco.com Toyo Tanso France SA 9-10 rue Eugène Hénaff 78190 Trappes, France Mr Hubert Falque T: +33 1 3066 3535 E: contact@toyotansofrance.com W: www.toyotansofrance.com Tri-Mer Corporation 1400 Monroe Street Owosso Michigan 48867, United States Mr Kevin Moss T: +1 801-294-5422 E: kevin.moss@tri-mer.com W: www.tri-mer.com UNICOM Cerska 69 1100 Belgrade, Serbia Mr. Slobodan Manic T: +38 111 283 5635 E: slobodan.manic@unicom.rs W: www.unicom.rs

Unifour B.V. Nijverheidsweg 3 7071 CH Ulft, Netherlands Ing Paul Overmans T: +31 315 64152 E: info@unifour.nl W: www.unifour.nl UNIFRAX Mill Lane, Rainford St Helens Merseyside, United Kingdom Miss Caroline Hughes T: +44 (0)1744 887600 E: caroline.hughes@unifrax.co.uk W: www.unifrax.com United Process Controls 8904 Beckett Road West Chester OH 45069, United States Mr. Pat Torok T: +1-513-772-1000 E: paul.gofas@group-upc.com W: www.group-upc.com Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Unit 13, Credenda Road West Bromwich West Midlands, B70 7JE United Kingdom Mr Mike Long T: +44 (0)121-544-4385 E: mike@vacat.co.uk W: www.vacat.co.uk Vacuum Research Corporation 100 Chapel Harbor Drive, #4 Pittsburgh PA 15238, United States Mr. Mark McKee T: +1 412-261-7630 E: VRC@VacuumResearch.com W: www.VacuumResearch.com Vesuvius 1 Midland Way Barlborough, S43 4XA United Kingdom Mr Andrew Queenan T: +44 1246 571700 E: andrew.queenan@vesuvius.com W: www.vesuvius.com Vesuvius 68 rue Paul Deudon 59750 Feignies, France Mr Thomas Schmidt T: +33 327 69 1019 E: Thomas.schmidt@vesuvius.com W: www.vesuvius.com Vibra-Pro Company Inc. 3629 Banner Street Boise, Idaho 83709, United States President John Roisum Sr. T: 800-658-3812 E: joroisum@vibrapro.com W: www.vibrapro.com Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Alloy Industrial Estate Pontardawe, Swansea, SA8 4HL United Kingdom Mr Steve Jenkins T: +44 (0)1792 860642 E: sales@wallcolmonoy.co.uk W: www.wallcolmonoy.co.uk

Wallwork Group Lord Street Bury, Lancashire BL9 0RE United Kingdom Mr Peter Carpenter T: +44 (0)161 7979111 E: peter.carpenter@wallworkht.com W: www.wallworkht.com Walters & Walters Ltd Unit 16, Orchard Road Royston, Hertfordshire, SG8 5HA United Kingdom Mrs Lauren Murphy T: +44 (0)1763-245445 E: sales@waltersandwalters.co.uk W: www.WaltersandWalters.co.uk

Wellman Furnaces Units 9-11, Hale Industrial Estate Lower Church Lane Tipton DY4 7PQ, United Kingdom Mr Steve Price T: +44 (0)121 522 2522 E: ashley.m-swain@almor.co.uk W: www.wellman-furnaces.co.uk

Williamson Corporation 70 Domino Drive Concord, Massachusetts 01742 United States Thomas Huff T: +1 978 369 9607 E: thuff@williamsonir.com W: www.williamsonir.com Woltz GmbH Alfred-Zippe-Str. 1 97877 BW Wertheim, Germany Dr Sebastian Woltz T: +49 9342 92960 E: info@woltz.de W: www.woltz.de WS Thermal Process Technology Inc. 8301 W. Erie Avenue Lorain OH 44053, United States Dr. Martin Schoenfelder T: +1 440-385-6829 E: wsinc@flox.com W: www.FLOX.com York Linings International Ltd Millfield Industrial Estate Wheldrake York, North Yorkshire YO19 6NA United Kingdom Mrs Jill Wales T: +44 (0)1904 449777 E: YorkHQ@capeplc.com W: www.capeplc.com YS tech Co Ltd 40-11 Minamiseiwwaen - cho Suita,5640038 Osaka, Japan Mr Taichi Okayama T: 06-4860-7711 E: tokayama@yushi.co.jp W: www.ys-tech.jp/

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CLASSIFIED BUYERS’ GUIDE TO FURNACE PLANT EQUIPMENT, MATERIALS & SERVICES ANALYTICAL TESTING EQUIPMENT ARUN Technology CCPI Inc. Control Instruments Corp.

Datapaq, Inc. Esotermica Srl FEVISA Gefran, Inc. H F Furnaces INFICON Jasper GmbH Kahn Instruments, Inc. Land Instruments International Linn High Therm GmbH Lumetrics Marina Textil OmegaVac Vacuum Products LLC Rath Refractories TDI Group LLC Testo Limited Thermo Fisher Scientific TMS Europe Ltd BASKETS & TRAYS, HEAT TREATMENT AFECO Heating Systems Almor Group AMECO USA Carbon International Ltd Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd Ernst B Westman Ltd FEVISA Graphite Sales Inc. Hi-Tech Furnace Systems, Inc. MECFOR INC. NeoNickel Blackburn North West Fire Protection Ltd PLANSEE USA LLC Precision Metal Products Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Tecalex Tokai Carbon Europe Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Vesuvius Wallwork Group Wellman Furnaces BILLET HEATERS AFECO Heating Systems Consolidated Engineering Company Çuhadaroglu Metal AS DongYang A.K Effmag Ltd. Elboy Powder Coating and Liquid Coating Systems Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Granco Clark, Inc. Gulf Plus-Kuwait Hormesa-Conticast Group IAS GmbH Meltech Precision Metal Products Radyne Corporation Rath Refractories SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

SMS Meer S.p.A. Surface Combustion, Inc. TDI Group LLC Tecalex Unifour B.V. BURNERS Aichelin Holding GmbH AIF Engineering Private Limited Air Products and Chemicals, Inc Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Almor Group ANH Refractories Europe Ltd British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Çuhadaroglu Metal AS DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. DongYang A.K EBNER Furnaces, Inc. Eclipse, Inc Elster Thermal Solutions ENG. ROSES INT’L Esotermica Srl

FEVISA FlammaTec, spol. s r.o.

Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Glass Service, a.s.

Glass Strand Inc Gulf Plus-Kuwait H F Furnaces Hormesa-Conticast Group Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Hotwork International AG Istrabenz plini d.o.o.

Jasper GmbH Monometer Holdings Limited Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA NeoNickel Blackburn PCI Proctor Biomass Systems Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies Refractory Specialties, Inc.A Unifrax Company Riedhammer GmbH, Industrial Kiln Plants SAFTI SBP Alumina SIAD S.p.A. SMS Meer S.p.A. Thermetal Engineering Ltd Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Wellman Furnaces WS Thermal Process Technology Inc. CALIBRATION & TEST EQUIPMENT CCPI Inc. Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Datapaq, Inc. FEVISA Gefran, Inc. GTG HGH Infrared Systems High Temp Measurement LLC Ircon, Inc. JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd Kahn Instruments, Inc. Lumetrics National Basic Sensor PCT Engineered Systems, LLC Pyrocontrole Radir infra Red Temperature Systems Raytek Corporation SAFTI SEGRIF Specnow Ltd Testo Limited Thermo Fisher Scientific TMS Europe Ltd Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Walters & Walters Ltd Wellman Furnaces COATINGS (PVD, CVD, PA-CVD) AEG Power Solutions GmbH AVS Inc. EGETRAC entreprise de genie civil equipement et travaux de tuyauterie & chaudronnerie Elboy Powder Coating and Liquid Coating Systems FEVISA Gulf Coast Environmental Systems Hi-Tech Furnace Systems, Inc. Marina Textil North West Fire Protection Ltd Qatar Aluminium Ltd Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies Rubig Engineering SBP Alumina Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wallwork Group COMBUSTION SYSTEMS Adwest Technologies AFECO Heating Systems AIF Engineering Private Limited Air Products and Chemicals, Inc Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC British Industrial Furnace

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Constructors Association (BIFCA) BWG Machinery Corporation COMBUSTOL Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Datsun Engineering and Construction Company De Winter Engineering BV DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. EBNER Furnaces, Inc. Eclipse, Inc Elboy Powder Coating and Liquid Coating Systems Elster Thermal Solutions ENG. Roses Int’l Epcon Industrial Systems, LP Esotermica Srl FEVISA FlammaTec, spol. s r.o.

Fuel Applications Limited Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Glass Service, a.s.

Glass Strand Inc Gulf Coast Environmental Systems Hays Cleveland Hormesa-Conticast Group Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Hotwork International AG Istrabenz plini d.o.o.

Izocam Jasper GmbH Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG Lenox Instrument Company, Inc. LIAS Industrial Ltd Major Furnace Munimula Technology P/L PCI PCT Engineered Systems, LLC Proctor Biomass Systems SIAD S.p.A. SMS Meer S.p.A. Stolzle Flaconnage Schaefer Group, Inc., The Thermal Engineering & Controls Thermal Transfer Corporation Thermetal Engineering Ltd Toledo Engineering Co., Inc Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd CONTROL & INSTRUMENTATION AIF Engineering Private Limited Air Control Industrial S.L. Almor Group Ascon Tecnologic North America AVS Inc. CCPI Inc. Charter Tech Limited Control Instruments Corp. Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Datapaq, Inc. Eclipse, Inc EMG Automation GmbH Esotermica Srl FEVISA Fredericks Company/Televac Gefran Gefran, Inc. General Glass Equipment Company, Inc. Hays Cleveland HGH Infrared Systems High Temp Measurement LLC Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Hotwork International AG Industrial Television Ltd INFICON Ircon, Inc. Izocam Jasper GmbH JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd Land Instruments International Lenox Instrument Company, Inc. LIAS Industrial Ltd LumaSense Technologies Marathon Monitors and Control Systems Corp (Beijing) Ltd Marathon Monitors and Control Systems Corp Ltd MTAG Technology AG Munimula Technology P/L National Basic Sensor Navin Corporation

NK Technologies Ohio Semitronics, Inc. PCI Pony International Technologies,Ltd. Precimeter Control AB Process-Electronic France Process-Electronic GmbH Process-Electronic Sp. z o.o.

Pyrocontrole RAD-CON, Inc. Radir infra Red Temperature Systems Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Raytek Corporation Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies SAFTI SEGRIF SK Environmental Ltd SMS Meer S.p.A. Specnow Ltd STAS Inc. Stolzle Flaconnage Surface Combustion, Inc. Tecalex Testo Limited Schaefer Group, Inc., The Thermal Engineering & Controls Thermetal Engineering Ltd Thermo Fisher Scientific TMS Europe Ltd Toledo Engineering Co., Inc UNICOM United Process Controls Vacuum Research Corporation YS tech Co Ltd CRUCIBLES AMECO USA ANH Refractories Europe Ltd Apogee Technology, Inc. Brasco International Carbon International Ltd Cardinal Refractories Inc. CIMSAMEX Eco Technical Ceramics Ernst B Westman Ltd FIVES Graphite Sales Inc. Hormesa-Conticast Group MAGMA Ceramics & Catalysts Magneco/Metrel, Inc. Morgan Advanced Materials Thermal Ceramics Munimula Technology P/L PLANSEE USA LLC Qatar Aluminium Ltd Refractory Specialties, Inc.A Unifrax Company Stellar Canada Inc. Sunrock Ceramics Company Technical Glass Products, Inc. TMS Europe Ltd Vesuvius ELECTRIC FURNACE REPAIRS ABB Metallurgy Products AFECO Heating Systems Aichelin Holding GmbH AIF Engineering Private Limited Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Brasco International Calderys Refractory Taiwan Chapman Brack Contractors Ltd CMI Greenline Europe Datsun Engineering and Construction Company Dismatec Limited Esotermica Srl H F Furnaces Henry F. Teichmann, Inc. Hormesa-Conticast Group I.LE.S. Srl JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd Kilns and Furnaces Ltd Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies Meltech N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA Reintech GmbH Sandvik Heating Technology UK

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Set Linings Brasil Shivang Furnaces and Ovens Industries Temperature Management Systems (Pty) Ltd Gund Company, The Schaefer Group, Inc., The Thermcraft, Inc. Thermetal Engineering Ltd TMS Europe Ltd Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Walters & Walters Ltd Wellman Furnaces ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC HEATING AEG Power Solutions GmbH AFECO Heating Systems Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC AVS Inc. BEST - Balkesir Elektromekanik Sanayi Tesisleri AS Carbon International Ltd DongYang A.K Eco Technical Ceramics Ernst B Westman Ltd Esotermica Srl Fuel Applications Limited GMC For Glass Industry Graphite Sales Inc. JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd Kilns and Furnaces Ltd Micropyretics Heaters International PLANSEE USA LLC Precision Metal Products Reintech GmbH SAFTI Sandvik Heating Technology UK SCHUPP Ceramics Shivang Furnaces and Ovens Industries STAS Inc. Temperature Management Systems (Pty) Ltd Schaefer Group, Inc., The Thermal Engineering & Controls Thermcraft, Inc. Thermetal Engineering Ltd Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wellman Furnaces ENERGY TECHNOLOGY AFECO Heating Systems Apogee Technology, Inc. Ascon Tecnologic North America British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) BWG Machinery Corporation Çuhadaroglu Metal AS DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. Effmag Ltd. EGETRAC entreprise de genie civil equipement et travaux de tuyauterie & chaudronnerie Gefran, Inc. Glass Strand Inc Hatch Associates Istrabenz plini d.o.o.

Izocam Jasper GmbH Kandi Engineering PVT. LTD. Kennedy Eurotech MTAG Technology AG Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA Ohio Semitronics, Inc. PCI RAD-CON, Inc. Radir infra Red Temperature Systems Sangalli Technologies ESCO S.r.l.

SIAD S.p.A. Silicon Power Corporation Stolzle Flaconnage Tenova Re Energy GmbH Testo Limited Schaefer Group, Inc., The Thermal Transfer Corporation Thermetal Engineering Ltd WS Thermal Process Technology Inc. November/December 2015

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ENGINEERING, SERVICES & CONSULTANCY ABB Metallurgy Products ACE-RFTS LLC AEG Power Solutions GmbH AFECO Heating Systems Air Control Industrial S.L. AJZ & Associates Consulting Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Apogee Technology, Inc. AVS Inc. BWG Bergwerk- und Walzwerk-Maschinenbau GmbH BWG Machinery Corporation CFT Carbon Furnaces Technologies B.V. Cockerill Maintenance & Ingenerie (CMI) Combustol Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Datsun Engineering and Construction Company De Winter Engineering BV DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. Denco Lubrication Ltd DiBenedetto Appraisal Services, memeber TDI Grp. Dismatec Limited Doughman Quality Services, Inc. Eclipse, Inc Elster Thermal Solutions EMG Automation GmbH Esotermica Srl Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd G&T Associates (Services) Ltd GEA Process Engineering Inc. General Glass Equipment Company, Inc. Gillespie & Powers, Inc. Glass Service, a.s.

Glass Strand Inc GMC For Glass Industry Gulf Coast Environmental Systems Harper International Hatch Associates Helipebs Controls Limited Henry F. Teichmann, Inc. Hutni projekt Frydek Mistek a.s.

IML Labels & Systems Ltd Innoval Technology Jasper GmbH Kennedy Eurotech Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies Lubitech Enterprises MachTools TechnoServe Private Ltd Major Furnace McLellan & Partners Limited Mecfor Inc. Molyneux Industries Rails & Rail Clips Monometer Holdings Limited MTAG Technology AG MUGOYA Limited Munimula Technology P/L PCT Engineered Systems, LLC PLANSEE USA LLC Pony International Technologies,Ltd. Radir infra Red Temperature Systems Rath AG Riedhammer GmbH, Industrial Kiln Plants SAFTI Sangalli Technologies ESCO S.r.l.

SEGRIF SMS Meer S.p.A. Spaco Technologies (I) PVT. LTD. STAS Inc. Tecalex Thermetal Engineering Ltd TNI Spring Technologies, LLC Toledo Engineering Co., Inc Tri-Mer Corporation Unifour B.V. Vesuvius Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wellman Furnaces Woltz GmbH

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ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY Adwest Technologies AJZ & Associates Consulting Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Ascon Tecnologic North America Çuhadaroglu Metal AS DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. Epcon Industrial Systems, LP FEVISA GEA Process Engineering Inc. General Glass Equipment Company, Inc. Gulf Coast Environmental Systems Hatch Associates Jasper GmbH Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG Lenox Instrument Company, Inc. Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies MAGUIN S.A.S. Major Furnace McGill AirClean LLC Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA Radquim Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies Sanshin Sanwa Group SIAD S.p.A. SMS Meer S.p.A. Tenova Re Energy GmbH Testo Limited Thermetal Engineering Ltd Tri-Mer Corporation FANS, COMBUSTION AIR AIF Engineering Private Limited Air Control Industrial S.L. Castolin Eutectic Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Daniels Fans Ltd Datsun Engineering and Construction Company Eclipse, Inc FEVISA Garden City Fan Company, Div of Howden Industrial Gas Engineering Izocam Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies SAFTI SMS Meer S.p.A. Surface Combustion, Inc. Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd FASTENINGS Couplings Company, Inc. Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Mach One (International) Ltd Molyneux Industries - Rails & Rail Clips PLANSEE USA LLC Raloid Tool Company Incorporated FLAME-FAILURE EQUIPMENT Charter Tech Limited Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Eclipse, Inc Elster Thermal Solutions Fuel Applications Limited GTG Hays Cleveland Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Lenox Instrument Company, Inc. LIAS Industrial Ltd Marina Textil Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd FUEL & ENERGY SUPPLY Air Products and Chemicals, Inc Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Deepak Industries EGETRAC entreprise de genie civil equipement et travaux de tuyauterie & chaudronnerie Istrabenz plini d.o.o.

PCI Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies Stolzle Flaconnage

FUME EXTRACTION Adwest Technologies Castolin Eutectic Çuhadaroglu Metal AS De Winter Engineering BV Epcon Industrial Systems, LP H F Furnaces Hormesa-Conticast Group Major Furnace SMS Meer S.p.A. FURNACE CHARGING MACHINES AFECO Heating Systems AIF Engineering Private Limited Air Control Industrial S.L. Borel Swiss SA British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) BWG Machinery Corporation Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Datsun Engineering and Construction Company De Winter Engineering BV EBNER Furnaces, Inc. FEVISA G&G Steel Inc. General Glass Equipment Company, Inc. GHI Hornos Industriales S.L. GNA alutech inc.

HENCON Hertwich Engineering GmbH Jasper GmbH Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG Lubitech Enterprises Mayflower Engineering Ltd Mecfor Inc. Meltech Munimula Technology P/L Qatar Aluminium Ltd SMS Meer S.p.A. SOLO Swiss Group Stolzle Flaconnage Surface Combustion, Inc. TDI Group LLC Thermetal Engineering Ltd Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Vibra-Pro Company Inc. Wellman Furnaces Woltz GmbH FURNACE CONTROLLERS & INSTRUMENTATION AEG Power Solutions GmbH AFECO Heating Systems AIF Engineering Private Limited Air Control Industrial S.L. Apogee Technology, Inc. Ascon Tecnologic North America British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) CAN-ENG Furnaces International Ltd CCPI Inc. Combustol Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Datapaq, Inc. DongYang A.K EMG Automation GmbH Energy & Environmental Services ltd Esotermica Srl FEVISA Fuel Applications Limited Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Gefran, Inc. GNA alutech inc.

HGH Infrared Systems Hormesa-Conticast Group Industrial Television Ltd JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd Lenox Instrument Company, Inc. Lubitech Enterprises Marathon Monitors and Control Systems Corp (Beijing) Ltd Marathon Monitors and Control Systems Corp Ltd Micropyretics Heaters International Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA NK Technologies PCI PCT Engineered Systems, LLC

Pony International Technologies,Ltd. Process-Electronic France Process-Electronic GmbH Process-Electronic Sp. z o.o.

Pyrocontrole Radir infra Red Temperature Systems Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Raytek Corporation SAFTI SK Environmental Ltd SMS Meer S.p.A. Stolzle Flaconnage Schaefer Group, Inc., The Thermal Engineering & Controls TMS Europe Ltd UNICOM United Process Controls Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Wellman Furnaces FURNACE FURNITURE AFECO Heating Systems Almor Group AMECO USA ANT Furnaces Borel Swiss SA British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Carbon International Ltd Cellaris Refractories India Limited CMI Greenline Europe Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Ernst B Westman Ltd FEVISA Gaskets Inc Graphite Sales Inc. Hormesa-Conticast Group JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd Kilns and Furnaces Ltd Meltech Morgan Advanced Materials Thermal Ceramics NeoNickel Blackburn PLANSEE USA LLC Refractory Specialties, Inc.A Unifrax Company Sangalli Technologies ESCO S.r.l.

SMS Meer S.p.A. SOLO Swiss Group Sun Systems Canceleria y Domos SA DE CV Sunrock Ceramics Company Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Vesuvius Wallwork Group Wellman Furnaces FURNACE LINING MACHINERY Air Control Industrial S.L. Allied Trading International Ltd ANH Refractories Europe Ltd British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Datsun Engineering and Construction Company FEVISA Hormesa-Conticast Group Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies Lubitech Enterprises Set Linings Brasil Sun Systems Canceleria y Domos SA DE CV Vesuvius FURNACE THERMAL SURVEYS Allied Trading International Ltd Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) CCPI Inc. CMI Greenline Europe Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Datapaq, Inc. DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. Dismatec Limited DongYang A.K Energy & Environmental Services ltd

FEVISA Gillespie & Powers, Inc. HGH Infrared Systems Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Industrial Television Ltd Ircon, Inc. Kandi Engineering Pvt Ltd Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies LumaSense Technologies Pyrocontrole Radir infra Red Temperature Systems Rath Refractories Raytek Corporation Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies SMS Meer S.p.A. Stolzle Flaconnage Schaefer Group, Inc., The Thermetal Engineering Ltd TMS Europe Ltd Toledo Engineering Co., Inc Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd FURNACES, HEAT TREATMENT AEG Power Solutions GmbH AFC-Holcroft AFECO Heating Systems Aichelin Holding GmbH AIF Engineering Private Limited Allied Trading International Ltd Almor Group AVS Inc. Bekaert Solaronics Borel Swiss SA British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) BWG Bergwerk- und Walzwerk-Maschinenbau GmbH BWG Machinery Corporation CAN-ENG Furnaces International Ltd Carbolite Ltd Carbon International Ltd Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd CMI Greenline Europe Cockerill Maintenance & Ingenerie (CMI) Combustol Consarc Engineering Ltd Consolidated Engineering Company Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Datapaq, Inc. DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. DongYang A.K EBNER Furnaces, Inc. EGB Vacuum Ltd Elboy Powder Coating and Liquid Coating Systems Elnik Systems LLC Energy & Environmental Services ltd Esotermica Srl FEVISA FIVES Fuel Applications Ltd Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Gillespie & Powers, Inc. Glaston Finland Oy Global Oven Systems BV GMC For Glass Industry GNA alutech inc.

Granco Clark, Inc. Grieve Corporation GTG Gulf Coast Environmental Systems Gulf Plus-Kuwait Harper International Hertwich Engineering GmbH High Tech Tubes Ltd Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd Hormesa-Conticast Group Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd I.LE.S. Srl Ircon, Inc. Izocam Jasper GmbH JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd Kilns and Furnaces Ltd L&L Special Furnace Co., Inc. LEWCO, Inc. Linn High Therm GmbH Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies LOI Thermprocess GmbH

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PLANSEE USA LLC Precision Metal Products RAD-CON, Inc. Radyne Corporation Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies Reintech GmbH Rubig Engineering Sandvik Heating Technology UK Sangalli Technologies ESCO S.r.l.

Sargeant & Wilbur, Inc. SBP Alumina SCHUPP Ceramics SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Shivang Furnaces and Ovens Industries SMS Meer S.p.A. SMS group GmbH SOLO Swiss Group Specnow Ltd Surface Combustion, Inc. Tantek Furnaces Ltd TDI Group LLC Tecalex Thermal Engineering & Controls Thermcraft, Inc. Thermetal Engineering Ltd TMS Europe Ltd Toledo Engineering Co., Inc Toyo Tanso France SA Unifour B.V. Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Walters & Walters Ltd Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, REHEAT AFC-Holcroft AFECO Heating Systems Almor Group AVS Inc. Borel Swiss SA British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) BWG Bergwerk- und Walzwerk-Maschinenbau GmbH CAN-ENG Furnaces International Ltd Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd CMI Greenline Europe Cockerill Maintenance & Ingenerie (CMI) Combustol Çuhadaroglu Metal AS DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. Energy & Environmental Services ltd Epcon Industrial Systems, LP FEVISA FIVES Fuel Applications Limited GHI Hornos Industriales S.L. Global Oven Systems BV GNA alutech inc.

Gulf Coast Environmental Systems Gulf Plus-Kuwait Hormesa-Conticast Group Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd I.LE.S. Srl Kilns and Furnaces Ltd L&L Special Furnace Co, Inc LEWCO, Inc. Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies Major Furnace Meltech Morgan Advanced Materials - Thermal Ceramics N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd PCI Pony International Technologies,Ltd.

Precision Metal Products Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Rath Refractories Reintech GmbH SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Shivang Furnaces and Ovens Industries SMS Meer S.p.A. SMS group GmbH SOLO Swiss Group Surface Combustion, Inc. Tantek Furnaces Ltd Schaefer Group, Inc., The Thermcraft, Inc. Thermetal Engineering Ltd TNI Spring Technologies, LLC Toledo Engineering Co., Inc Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, BRAZING AFC-Holcroft Aichelin Holding GmbH ANT Furnaces AVS Inc. Borel Swiss SA British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Consarc Engineering Ltd EGB Vacuum Ltd Elnik Systems LLC Epcon Industrial Systems, LP FEVISA Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd I.LE.S. Srl L&L Special Furnace Co, Inc LEWCO, Inc. Linn High Therm GmbH Meltech Micropyretics Heaters International PLANSEE USA LLC Radyne Corporation Sandvik Heating Technology UK Sargeant & Wilbur, Inc. SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Shivang Furnaces and Ovens Industries SOLO Swiss Group Specnow Ltd Surface Combustion, Inc. Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, ELEVATOR AFC-Holcroft AFECO Heating Systems AVS Inc. Borel Swiss SA British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Carbolite Ltd GHI Hornos Industriales S.L. L&L Special Furnace Co, Inc Linn High Therm GmbH Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Sandvik Heating Technology UK Sargeant & Wilbur, Inc. SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Shivang Furnaces and Ovens Industries SOLO Swiss Group Thermcraft, Inc. Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, SURFACE TREATMENT AEG Power Solutions GmbH AFC-Holcroft AFECO Heating Systems Aichelin Holding GmbH Allied Trading International Ltd ANT Furnaces

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AVS Inc. Borel Swiss SA British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Carbolite Ltd Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd Datsun Engineering and Construction Company Epcon Industrial Systems, LP Eurobond Adhesives Ltd FEVISA Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Global Oven Systems BV Gulf Plus-Kuwait Harper International Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd Hi-Tech Furnace Systems, Inc. I.LE.S. Srl JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd L&L Special Furnace Co, Inc LEWCO, Inc. Linn High Therm GmbH Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies LOI Thermprocess GmbH Major Furnace Meltech Micropyretics Heaters International Nitrex Metal Nitrex Metal GmbH Nitrex Metal Inc Nitrex Metal Sp. z o.o.

Radyne Corporation Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Rubig Engineering SCHUPP Ceramics SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Shivang Furnaces and Ovens Industries SOLO Swiss Group Surface Combustion, Inc. Tecalex Unifour B.V. Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Walters & Walters Ltd Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, LABORATORY ANT Furnaces AVS Inc. Borel Swiss SA British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Carbolite Ltd Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd Combustol Çuhadaroglu Metal AS EGB Vacuum Ltd FEVISA Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Glass Service, a.s.

Global Oven Systems BV Harper International Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd I.LE.S. Srl JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd Kilns and Furnaces Ltd L&L Special Furnace Co, Inc Linn High Therm GmbH Major Furnace Micropyretics Heaters International Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA Qatar Aluminium Ltd Radyne Corporation Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Rath Refractories Sandvik Heating Technology UK SCHUPP Ceramics SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Shivang Furnaces and Ovens Industries SOLO Swiss Group Specnow Ltd Thermcraft, Inc. TMS Europe Ltd Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Walters & Walters Ltd Wellman Furnaces

FURNACES, METAL TREATMENT STAS Inc FURNACES, MELTING & HOLDING AEG Power Solutions GmbH AFECO Heating Systems AIF Engineering Private Limited Allied Trading International Ltd ANT Furnaces Apogee Technology, Inc. AVENTICS GmbH AVS Inc. Borel Swiss SA Brasco International British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Carbolite Ltd Combustol Consarc Engineering Ltd Çuhadaroglu Metal AS De Winter Engineering BV DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. DongYang A.K Epcon Industrial Systems, LP Esotermica Srl FEVISA FIVES Fuel Applications Limited Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd G&G Steel Inc. GHI Hornos Industriales S.L. Gillespie & Powers, Inc. Glass Service, a.s.

Glass Strand Inc GNA alutech inc.

Harper International Henry F. Teichmann, Inc. Hertwich Engineering GmbH Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd Jasper GmbH JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd Kilns and Furnaces Ltd Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG Linn High Therm GmbH Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies LOI Thermprocess GmbH Lubitech Enterprises Major Furnace Mecfor Inc. Meltech Monometer Holdings Limited Morgan Advanced Materials Thermal Ceramics Munimula Technology P/L N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd PCI Pony International Technologies,Ltd. Prolind Industrial LTDA Qatar Aluminium Ltd Reintech GmbH Sandvik Heating Technology UK SCHUPP Ceramics SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Shivang Furnaces and Ovens Industries SOLO Swiss Group Stolzle Flaconnage Sun Systems Canceleria y Domos SA DE CV TDI Group LLC Termia Technology Schaefer Group, Inc., The Thermetal Engineering Ltd Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, SEALED-QUENCH AEG Power Solutions GmbH AFC-Holcroft Aichelin Holding GmbH Allied Trading International Ltd Almor Group AVS Inc. British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) CAN-ENG Furnaces International Ltd Combustol Epcon Industrial Systems, LP FEVISA

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Surface Combustion, Inc. Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, SINTERING AFC-Holcroft ANT Furnaces AVS Inc. Borel Swiss SA Brasco International British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Carbolite Ltd Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd Cockerill Maintenance & Ingenerie (CMI) Combustol Consarc Engineering Ltd Elboy Powder Coating and Liquid Coating Systems Elnik Systems LLC Esotermica Srl FEVISA Fuel Applications Limited Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Global Oven Systems BV Grieve Corporation Harper International Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd I.LE.S. Srl JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd Kilns and Furnaces Ltd L&L Special Furnace Co, Inc Linn High Therm GmbH Major Furnace Meltech Micropyretics Heaters International PLANSEE USA LLC Qatar Aluminium Ltd Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Sandvik Heating Technology UK Sargeant & Wilbur, Inc. SCHUPP Ceramics SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Shivang Furnaces and Ovens Industries SOLO Swiss Group Thermcraft, Inc. Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, SOAKING PITS AEG Power Solutions GmbH AFC-Holcroft British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Cockerill Maintenance & Ingenerie (CMI) Combustol Datsun Engineering and Construction Company EBNER Furnaces, Inc. FEVISA G&G Steel Inc. GHI Hornos Industriales S.L. Gillespie & Powers, Inc. Global Oven Systems BV I.LE.S. Srl Morgan Advanced Materials Thermal Ceramics N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd PCI SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

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FURNACES, TILT ROTARY AFC-Holcroft AFECO Heating Systems AIF Engineering Private Limited AVS Inc. British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Carbolite Ltd CMI Greenline Europe DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd GHI Hornos Industriales S.L. Gillespie & Powers, Inc. Global Oven Systems BV Gulf Plus-Kuwait Harper International Hormesa-Conticast Group Jasper GmbH Kilns and Furnaces Ltd Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG Linn High Therm GmbH Major Furnace Meltech Monometer Holdings Limited Morgan Advanced Materials Thermal Ceramics Munimula Technology P/L N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd PCI SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

SMS Meer S.p.A. TDI Group LLC Schaefer Group, Inc., The Thermcraft, Inc. Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, USED EQUIPMENT ACE-RFTS LLC Almor Group AVS Inc. Borel Swiss SA British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd EGETRAC entreprise de genie civil equipement et travaux de tuyauterie & chaudronnerie Esotermica Srl GTG High Tech Tubes Ltd I.LE.S. Srl Machinery International Corp OmegaVac Vacuum Products LLC Precision Metal Products Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Reintech GmbH SAFTI SOLO Swiss Group Specnow Ltd Sun Systems Canceleria y Domos SA DE CV TDI Group LLC Schaefer Group, Inc., The Thermal Detection Ltd. Thermcraft, Inc. Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, VACUUM AEG Power Solutions GmbH Almor Group ANT Furnaces AVS Inc. British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Busch (UK) Ltd Carbolite Ltd Carbon International Ltd Combustol Consarc Engineering Ltd DongYang A.K EGB Vacuum Ltd Elnik Systems LLC Epcon Industrial Systems, LP Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Gulf Coast Environmental Systems High Tech Tubes Ltd November/December 2015

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Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd LEWCO, Inc. Linn High Therm GmbH MTAG Technology AG OmegaVac Vacuum Products LLC PLANSEE USA LLC Rubig Engineering SBP Alumina SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

Specnow Ltd Surface Combustion, Inc. Tokai Carbon Europe Toyo Tanso France SA Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wellman Furnaces FURNACES, VACUUM COATING AEG Power Solutions GmbH AVS Inc. British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Busch (UK) Ltd Consarc Engineering Ltd DongYang A.K Elboy Powder Coating and Liquid Coating Systems Gulf Coast Environmental Systems Gulf Plus-Kuwait Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd Linn High Therm GmbH OmegaVac Vacuum Products LLC Rubig Engineering SECO/WARWICK Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wallwork Group FURNACES, WATER-COOLING SYSTEMS AFC-Holcroft British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) BWG Bergwerk- und Walzwerk-Maschinenbau GmbH CAN-ENG Furnaces International Ltd Datsun Engineering and Construction Company De Winter Engineering BV Denco Lubrication Ltd DongYang A.K FIVES Hormesa-Conticast Group Meltech Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA Pony International Technologies, Ltd Qatar Aluminium Ltd Radyne Corporation SMS Meer S.p.A. Stolzle Flaconnage GAS ANALYSERS Control Instruments Corp.

DEAR Sas Agent of Fives North American Combustion Inc. GTG H F Furnaces Hotwork International AG INFICON Kahn Instruments, Inc. Land Instruments International LumaSense Technologies Marathon Monitors and Control Systems Corp (Beijing) Ltd Marathon Monitors and Control Systems Corp Ltd MTAG Technology AG Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA Process-Electronic France Process-Electronic GmbH Process-Electronic Sp. z o.o.

Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies SK Environmental Ltd Stolzle Flaconnage Testo Limited UNICOM

United Process Controls Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd GAS GENERATORS, ATMOSPHERE AFC-Holcroft Aichelin Holding GmbH Air Products and Chemicals, Inc Combustol Istrabenz plini d.o.o.

JLS Furnaces (UK) Ltd Kandi Engineering Pvt Ltd Marathon Monitors and Control Systems Corp (Beijing) Ltd Marathon Monitors and Control Systems Corp Ltd PCI Process-Electronic France Process-Electronic GmbH Process-Electronic Sp. z o.o.

Sargeant & Wilbur, Inc. SECO/WARWICK SECO/WARWICK Europe Sp. z o.o.

SIAD S.p.A. Surface Combustion, Inc. United Process Controls Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Wellman Furnaces GAS METERS Elster Thermal Solutions Fuel Applications Limited Gulf Coast Environmental Systems Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Marathon Monitors and Control Systems Corp (Beijing) Ltd Marathon Monitors and Control Systems Corp Ltd Process-Electronic France Process-Electronic GmbH Process-Electronic Sp. z o.o.

Schaefer Group, Inc., The United Process Controls GAS REGULATORS & VALVES British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Elster Thermal Solutions Fuel Applications Limited Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd SMS Meer S.p.A. Schaefer Group, Inc., The UNICOM Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd GASES, INDUSTRIAL Air Products and Chemicals, Inc Istrabenz plini d.o.o.

Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA PCI SIAD S.p.A. GRAPHITE PRODUCTS Carbon International Ltd CIMSAMEX Eurobond Adhesives Ltd FEVISA Graphite Sales Inc. Hi-Tech Furnace Systems, Inc. Mersen Molten Metal Equipment Innovations, Inc. Morgan Advanced Materials Thermal Ceramics Qatar Aluminium Ltd SANGRAF International S.A. SBP Alumina STAS Inc. Tokai Carbon Europe Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd HEAT & CORROSION-RESISTING ALLOYS AMECO USA EGETRAC enterprise de genie civil equipement et travaux de tuyauterie & chaudronnerie

NeoNickel Blackburn PLANSEE USA LLC Thermal Transfer Corporation Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Walters & Walters Ltd

GTG Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Jasper GmbH Reintech GmbH Schaefer Group, Inc., The

HEAT EXCHANGERS

ABB Metallurgy Products Aichelin Holding GmbH British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Consarc Engineering Ltd Effmag Ltd. EMG Automation GmbH Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Hormesa-Conticast Group IAS GmbH Precision Metal Products Radyne Corporation Reintech GmbH Silicon Power Corporation TDI Group LLC Walters & Walters Ltd

Adwest Technologies AIF Engineering Private Limited Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC AMECO USA ANT Furnaces CIMSAMEX Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Denco Lubrication Ltd Eclipse, Inc Elboy Powder Coating and Liquid Coating Systems Elster Thermal Solutions Epcon Industrial Systems, LP FIVES Fuel Applications Limited Gulf Coast Environmental Systems Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Jasper GmbH Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG Major Furnace Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA SMS Meer S.p.A. Stolzle Flaconnage Tenova Re Energy GmbH Schaefer Group, Inc., The Thermal Transfer Corporation Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wellman Furnaces HEAT-TREATMENT, CONTRACT SERVICES Almor Group Bekaert Solaronics Borel Swiss SA CCPI Inc. Combustol Contract Heat Treatment Association Datsun Engineering and Construction Company DongYang A.K Elboy Powder Coating and Liquid Coating Systems GTG Gulf Plus-Kuwait Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies Nitrex Inc. - Chicago Operations Nitrex Inc. Indiana Operations Nitrex Inc. - Michigan Operations Nitrex Inc. - Nevada Operations Nitrex Inc. - West Coast Operations Nitrex Metal Nitrex Metal GmbH Nitrex Metal Inc Nitrex Metal Sp. z o.o.

SMS Meer S.p.A. SOLO Swiss Group Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wallwork Group Wellman Furnaces HIGH EMISSIVITY COATINGS ANH Refractories Europe Ltd Cardinal Refractories Inc. Eco Technical Ceramics Eurobond Adhesives Ltd Gulf Plus-Kuwait Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies SBP Alumina Stellar Canada Inc. UNIFRAX IGNITION ELECTRODES AIF Engineering Private Limited CIMSAMEX Elster Thermal Solutions FEVISA Fuel Applications Limited

INDUCTION EQUIPMENT

INDUCTION STIRRING DEVICES ABB Metallurgy Products Consarc Engineering Ltd Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Hertwich Engineering GmbH Kandi Engineering Pvt Ltd Munimula Technology P/L INSULATION, HIGH TEMPERATURE AFECO Heating Systems Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC ANH Refractories Europe Ltd Brasco International Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Eco Technical Ceramics Gaskets Inc Graphite Sales Inc. GTG Gulf Plus-Kuwait HOBRA - Skolnik s.r.o.

Hormesa-Conticast Group Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies Lubitech Enterprises MAM Thermal Ceramics Marina Textil Mid-Mountain Materials, Inc. N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd North West Fire Protection Ltd PLANSEE USA LLC Refractory Specialties, Inc.A Unifrax Company SCHUPP Ceramics Stolzle Flaconnage Gund Company, The Toyo Tanso France SA UNIFRAX Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Vesuvius Walters & Walters Ltd KILNS AEG Power Solutions GmbH Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC ANH Refractories Europe Ltd Ascon Tecnologic North America Borel Swiss SA Datsun Engineering and Construction Company Gillespie & Powers, Inc. Gulf Plus-Kuwait Harper International Henry F. Teichmann, Inc. Kilns and Furnaces Ltd Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG L&L Special Furnace Co, Inc Linn High Therm GmbH Major Furnace Micropyretics Heaters International Morgan Advanced Materials Thermal Ceramics N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd NeoNickel Blackburn PCI Proctor Biomass Systems

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Hertwich Engineering GmbH HGH Infrared Systems MachTools TechnoServe Private Ltd MTAG Technology AG Prosaw Limited Radir infra Red Temperature Systems Thermo Fisher Scientific TMS Europe Ltd Walters & Walters Ltd METALLURGICAL & TECHNICAL LABORATORY SERVICES ABB Metallurgy Products Apogee Technology, Inc. CCPI Inc. Chemtool - Tenaxol Heat Treat Products Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Harper International High Temp Measurement LLC Innoval Technology MTAG Technology AG NeoNickel Blackburn Nitrex Metal Nitrex Metal GmbH Nitrex Metal Inc Nitrex Metal Sp. z o.o.

Radir infra Red Temperature Systems STAS Inc. OVENS AEG Power Solutions GmbH AIF Engineering Private Limited Almor Group ANH Refractories Europe Ltd Ascon Tecnologic North America Borel Swiss SA BWG Bergwerk- und Walzwerk-Maschinenbau GmbH BWG Machinery Corporation Carbolite Ltd Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd Consolidated Engineering Company Datsun Engineering and Construction Company EBNER Furnaces, Inc. Elboy Powder Coating and Liquid Coating Systems Epcon Industrial Systems, LP Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Garden City Fan Company, Div of Howden Gaskets Inc GHI Hornos Industriales S.L. Granco Clark, Inc. Grieve Corporation GTG Gulf Coast Environmental Systems Harper International Hutni projekt Frydek Mistek a.s.

I.LE.S. Srl Kilns and Furnaces Ltd Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG L&L Special Furnace Co, Inc LEWCO, Inc. Linn High Therm GmbH Major Furnace Meltech Micropyretics Heaters International RAD-CON, Inc. SAFTI SCHUPP Ceramics Shivang Furnaces and Ovens Industries SOLO Swiss Group Tecalex TMS Europe Ltd Unifour B.V. Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Wellman Furnaces POWER SOURCES, INDUCTION MELTING/HEATING ABB Metallurgy Products Consarc Engineering Ltd Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Gefran, Inc. Gulf Plus-Kuwait Hormesa-Conticast Group

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Radyne Corporation Silicon Power Corporation PRESSES, HIGH PRESSURE ISOSTATIC Helipebs Controls Limited MUGOYA Limited PYROMETERS & TEMPERATURE MONITORING CCPI Inc. Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Esotermica Srl Gefran, Inc. GMC For Glass Industry GTG HGH Infrared Systems Industrial Television Ltd Ircon, Inc. Land Instruments International LumaSense Technologies MAM Thermal Ceramics MTAG Technology AG National Basic Sensor Pyrocontrole Radir infra Red Temperature Systems Raytek Corporation SAFTI SCHUPP Ceramics Stolzle Flaconnage Temperature Management Systems (Pty) Ltd Testo Limited Schaefer Group, Inc., The TMS Europe Ltd UNICOM Williamson Corporation QUENCHING EQUIPMENT/MEDIA AFECO Heating Systems BWG Bergwerk- und Walzwerk-Maschinenbau GmbH Chemtool - Tenaxol Heat Treat Products GHI Hornos Industriales S.L. Granco Clark, Inc. H F Furnaces Hutni projekt Frydek Mistek a.s.

I.LE.S. Srl Mayflower Engineering Ltd SMS Meer S.p.A. SMS group GmbH Surface Combustion, Inc. Tecalex TNI Spring Technologies, LLC Toyo Tanso France SA Wellman Furnaces RECUPERATORS Adwest Technologies AFC-Holcroft AFECO Heating Systems Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC ANH Refractories Europe Ltd Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Datsun Engineering and Construction Company De Winter Engineering BV Esotermica Srl Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Izocam Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG Major Furnace PCI SMS Meer S.p.A. Surface Combustion, Inc. Thermal Transfer Corporation Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd RECYCLING AFECO Heating Systems Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd De Winter Engineering BV FEVISA Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Gillespie & Powers, Inc.

Glass Strand Inc GTG H F Furnaces Hormesa-Conticast Group Kandi Engineering Pvt Ltd Linn High Therm GmbH LOI Thermprocess GmbH Mecfor Inc. Munimula Technology P/L Sanshin Sanwa Group REFRACTORIES AIF Engineering Private Limited Allied Mineral Products, Inc. Allied Trading International Ltd Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC ANH Refractories Europe Ltd ANT Furnaces Ascon Tecnologic North America Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Brasco International British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) Calderys Calderys Refractory Solutions Calderys Refractory Taiwan Cardinal Refractories Inc. Cellaris Refractories India Limited Chapman Brack Contractors Ltd Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd Combustol Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Eco Technical Ceramics Elkem Ceramite Esotermica Srl FEVISA Gaskets Inc Gillespie & Powers, Inc. GTG Gulf Plus-Kuwait Hormesa-Conticast Group Izocam Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies Lubitech Enterprises M H Detrick Company Ltd MAGMA Ceramics & Catalysts Magneco/Metrel, Inc. MAM Thermal Ceramics Mersen Micropyretics Heaters International Munimula Technology P/L N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA Permatech, Inc. Qatar Aluminium Ltd Rath AG Rath Refractories Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies Refractory Specialties, Inc.A Unifrax Company SCHUPP Ceramics SMS Meer S.p.A. STAS Inc. Stellar Canada Inc. Stolzle Flaconnage Sunrock Ceramics Company Surface Combustion, Inc. Schaefer Group, Inc., The Thermetal Engineering Ltd TMS Europe Ltd TOGNI S/A Materiais Refratarios Vesuvius Wellman Furnaces York Linings International Ltd REFRACTORY ANCHORS Allied Trading International Ltd Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC ANH Refractories Europe Ltd Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Brasco International Calderys Calderys Refractory Solutions Calderys Refractory Taiwan Cardinal Refractories Inc. Chapman Brack Contractors Ltd Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies

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M H Detrick Company Ltd Mach One (International) Ltd Magneco/Metrel, Inc. Morgan Advanced Materials Thermal Ceramics N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd NeoNickel Blackburn Stellar Canada Inc. Schaefer Group, Inc., The TOGNI S/A Materiais Refratarios Vesuvius REFRACTORY APPLICATION EQUIPMENT Allied Mineral Products, Inc. Allied Trading International Ltd Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC ANH Refractories Europe Ltd Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Brasco International Calderys Calderys Refractory Solutions Cardinal Refractories Inc. Gulf Plus-Kuwait Hotwork International AG Set Linings Brasil Stellar Canada Inc. Schaefer Group, Inc., The Toyo Tanso France SA Vesuvius REFRACTORY BLANKETS Allied Trading International Ltd Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC ANH Refractories Europe Ltd Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Brasco International Calderys Refractory Solutions Cardinal Refractories Inc. Chapman Brack Contractors Ltd Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Eco Technical Ceramics Izocam Lubitech Enterprises M H Detrick Company Ltd MAM Thermal Ceramics Mid-Mountain Materials, Inc. Morgan Advanced Materials Thermal Ceramics N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd Qatar Aluminium Ltd Rath Refractories Refractory Specialties, Inc.A Unifrax Company SAFTI SCHUPP Ceramics Stellar Canada Inc. Schaefer Group, Inc., The TMS Europe Ltd UNIFRAX Vesuvius REFRACTORY – CUTTING MACHINES Allied Trading International Ltd Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC ANH Refractories Europe Ltd Brasco International Calderys Refractory Solutions Kandi Engineering Pvt Ltd Lubitech Enterprises Prosaw Limited Sun Systems Canceleria y Domos SA DE CV REFRACTORY ENGINEERING – SUPPLY & INSTALLATIONS AFECO Heating Systems Allied Mineral Products, Inc. Allied Trading International Ltd Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC ANH Refractories Europe Ltd ANT Furnaces AVS Inc. Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Brasco International November/December 2015

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Calderys Calderys Refractory Solutions Calderys Refractory Taiwan Cardinal Refractories Inc. Chapman Brack Contractors Ltd Eco Technical Ceramics Elkem Ceramite Gillespie & Powers, Inc. Glass Strand Inc Hutni projekt Frydek Mistek a.s.

Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies Lubitech Enterprises M H Detrick Company Ltd Magneco/Metrel, Inc. Major Furnace MAM Thermal Ceramics Merkle International, Inc. Mersen Morgan Advanced Materials Thermal Ceramics N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd Permatech, Inc. Pony International Technologies, Ltd Prosaw Limited Rath AG Rath Refractories Riedhammer GmbH, Industrial Kiln Plants Set Linings Brasil SMS Meer S.p.A. Stellar Canada Inc. Schaefer Group, Inc., The TNI Spring Technologies, LLC TOGNI S/A Materiais Refratarios Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Vesuvius Woltz GmbH York Linings International Ltd REFRACTORY, RAW MATERIALS Allied Trading International Ltd ANH Refractories Europe Ltd ANT Furnaces Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Calderys Calderys Refractory Solutions Cellaris Refractories India Limited Chapman Brack Contractors Ltd Çuhadaroglu Metal AS DongYang A.K Eco Technical Ceramics Elkem Ceramite Gillespie & Powers, Inc. Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA NeoNickel Blackburn Qatar Aluminium Ltd Rath AG SBP Alumina TOGNI S/A Materiais Refratarios Toyo Tanso France SA UNICOM Vesuvius REFRACTORY METALS Allied Trading International Ltd Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC ANH Refractories Europe Ltd ANT Furnaces AVS Inc. Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Calderys Calderys Refractory Solutions Cardinal Refractories Inc. Çuhadaroglu Metal AS EGETRAC enterprise de genie civil equipement et travaux de tuyauterie & chaudronnerie Ernst B Westman Ltd PLANSEE USA LLC Qatar Aluminium Ltd Reintech GmbH Stellar Canada Inc. Sun Systems Canceleria y

Domos SA DE CV Thermetal Engineering Ltd REFRACTORY – REMOVAL EQUIPMENT Allied Trading International Ltd Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Brasco International Calderys Calderys Refractory Solutions Çuhadaroglu Metal AS EGETRAC enterprise de genie civil equipement et travaux de tuyauterie & chaudronnerie Kandi Engineering Pvt Ltd Set Linings Brasil REPAIRS – FURNACE MAINTENANCE, ENGINEERING AEG Power Solutions GmbH AFC-Holcroft AFECO Heating Systems Allied Mineral Products, Inc. Allied Trading International Ltd Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Almor Group ANH Refractories Europe Ltd ANT Furnaces AVS Inc. Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG Calderys Calderys Refractory Solutions Cardinal Refractories Inc. Castolin Eutectic CCPI Inc. Chapman Brack Contractors Ltd Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd Cockerill Maintenance & Ingenerie (CMI) Combustol Consarc Engineering Ltd Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Datsun Engineering and Construction Company De Winter Engineering BV Dismatec Limited Eco Technical Ceramics EGB Vacuum Ltd EGETRAC enterprise de genie civil equipement et travaux de tuyauterie & chaudronnerie Elkem Ceramite Epcon Industrial Systems, LP Esotermica Srl FEVISA Gillespie & Powers, Inc. Gulf Coast Environmental Systems Gulf Plus-Kuwait Hatch Associates Henry F. Teichmann, Inc. Hotwork Hotwork Australia Pty Ltd Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Hotwork International AG I.LE.S. Srl Izocam Jasper GmbH Kandi Engineering Pvt Ltd Lizmontagens Thermal Technologies Lubitech Enterprises Magneco/Metrel, Inc. Major Furnace Meltech Mersen Morgan Advanced Materials Thermal Ceramics Munimula Technology P/L N G Johnson (Northern) Ltd Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA NeoNickel Blackburn Permatech, Inc. Pony International Technologies,Ltd.

Rath AG Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies Reintech GmbH Riedhammer GmbH, Industrial Kiln Plants Sandvik Heating Technology UK SBP Alumina SCHUPP Ceramics Set Linings Brasil Shivang Furnaces and Ovens Industries SMS Meer S.p.A. Stellar Canada Inc. Surface Combustion, Inc. Temperature Management Systems (Pty) Ltd Schaefer Group, Inc., The Thermal Engineering & Controls Thermcraft, Inc. Thermetal Engineering Ltd TMS Europe Ltd TNI Spring Technologies, LLC Unifour B.V. UNIFRAX Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Vesuvius Wellman Furnaces Woltz GmbH RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Allied Mineral Products, Inc. ANT Furnaces Apogee Technology, Inc. AVS Inc. Çuhadaroglu Metal AS FEVISA Gillespie & Powers, Inc. Hatch Associates Hormesa-Conticast Group Innoval Technology Marina Textil Mecfor Inc. Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA PCI Pony International Technologies,Ltd. Pyrocontrole Radquim Rath AG Refractory Specialties, Inc.A Unifrax Company Riedhammer GmbH, Industrial Kiln Plants RJM Metal Consultancy Ltd SMS Meer S.p.A. STAS Inc. TNI Spring Technologies, LLC Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Wallwork Group SAFETY EQUIPMENT AJ Charnaud & Company (Pty) Ltd Contego Safety Solutions Çuhadaroglu Metal AS FEVISA Gaskets Inc HGH Infrared Systems Marina Textil MTAG Technology AG Pureflo Quaker Chemical B.V. Radir infra Red Temperature Systems Raytek Corporation Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies Testo Limited SCRAP PREHEATERS Çuhadaroglu Metal AS DongYang A.K FIVES GNA alutech inc.

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PCI SIPHON SYSTEMS Beck u. Kaltheuner Feuerfeste Erzeugnisse GmbH & Co. KG FIVES HENCON Major Furnace Mecfor Inc. Munimula Technology P/L Temperature Management Systems (Pty) Ltd SUBCONTRACT SERVICES Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Brasco International Chapman Brack Contractors Ltd Clayton Thermal Processes Ltd Datsun Engineering and Construction Company Gillespie & Powers, Inc. Innoval Technology Lubitech Enterprises North West Fire Protection Ltd STAS Inc. Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies TEMPERATURE CONTROLS AEG Power Solutions GmbH Almor Group Ascon Tecnologic North America CCPI Inc. Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Datapaq, Inc. De Winter Engineering BV DongYang A.K Gefran Gefran, Inc. GMC For Glass Industry GTG H F Furnaces Hays Cleveland HGH Infrared Systems Hotwork Combustion Technology Ltd Ircon, Inc. LumaSense Technologies Marathon Monitors and Control Systems Corp (Beijing) Ltd Marathon Monitors and Control Systems Corp Ltd MTAG Technology AG Nadir Figueiredo Ind e Com SA Navin Corporation Obninsk termoelectric company, LTD Ohio Semitronics, Inc. Process-Electronic France Process-Electronic GmbH Process-Electronic Sp. z o.o.

Pyrocontrole Radir infra Red Temperature Systems Raytek Corporation Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies SCHUPP Ceramics Specnow Ltd Temperature Management Systems (Pty) Ltd Schaefer Group, Inc., The Thermal Engineering & Controls Thermcraft, Inc. TMS Europe Ltd UNICOM United Process Controls TEMPERATURE INDICATING PAINTS/ CRAYONS Radir infra Red Temperature Systems Temperature Management Systems (Pty) Ltd Walters & Walters Ltd

Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Ascon Tecnologic North America Cardinal Refractories Inc. CCPI Inc. Çuhadaroglu Metal AS Datapaq, Inc. De Winter Engineering BV DongYang A.K EGB Vacuum Ltd Esotermica Srl FEVISA Fredericks Company/Televac Gefran Gefran, Inc. GMC For Glass Industry Hays Cleveland High Temp Measurement LLC Hi-Tech Furnace Systems, Inc. IAS GmbH Lubitech Enterprises Morgan Advanced Materials Thermal Ceramics National Basic Sensor Navin Corporation Obninsk termoelectric company, LTD OmegaVac Vacuum Products LLC Pyrocontrole Pyromation, Inc. Radir infra Red Temperature Systems Raloid Tool Company Incorporated Raytek Corporation SBP Alumina SK Environmental Ltd SMS Meer S.p.A. Stellar Canada Inc. Stolzle Flaconnage Tecalex Temperature Management Systems (Pty) Ltd Thermal Detection Ltd. Thermcraft, Inc. TMS Europe Ltd UNICOM Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Wellman Furnaces VACUUM COMPONENTS Busch (UK) Ltd Carbon International Ltd Fredericks Company/Televac GTG Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd MAM Thermal Ceramics MTAG Technology AG OmegaVac Vacuum Products LLC SBP Alumina Toyo Tanso France SA Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Vacuum Research Corporation Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies VACUUM PUMPS Almor Group Busch (UK) Ltd Hind High Vacuum Co. (P) Ltd MTAG Technology AG OmegaVac Vacuum Products LLC Refraconsulting Industrial Technologies SBP Alumina Vacuum and Atmosphere Services Ltd Vacuum Research Corporation WEIGHING EQUIPMENT Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC Çuhadaroglu Metal AS GTG Mecfor Inc. SBP Alumina SEGRIF SMS Meer S.p.A.

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Finding the right furnace The aluminium industry is dependent upon many types of industrial furnaces across all sectors of aluminium operations. Technically, even the very first stage in the production of aluminium is carried out inside a furnace. The “pot” is probably the first furnace in a long line of furnace operations aluminium will see. Keith Watkins* explains.

More conventional furnaces appear throughout our industry and this article looks at various types and applications.

Classically, we all appreciate the reverbs!

Melters and Holders to most of us, as these are the backbone of alloy production. Used for casting and alloying, with capacities of up to >150 tonnes, they can be found in primary and secondary aluminium plants.

So, let’s look along the production line and find out what other furnaces can be found. Once we have cast a product, should it be ingot, slab, billet, coil or de-ox there will be another furnace just waiting in the queue.

Ingot Inevitably, ingots are re-melted again and cast into a range of items. Those items will generally be heat treated to finalise the required metallurgical properties.

Precipitation and solution heat treatments are normal, depending upon the properties required. Temperatures may be 155°C to 175°C for precipitation and 525°C to 545°C for solution treatment.

Cooling may be carried out in air or hot water.

Slab Slabs will almost always be “rolled” either hot or cold, depending upon final usage, sheet thickness or alloy; initially the slabs will undergo heat treatment (re-heating).

Typically, soaking pits or continuous reheat furnaces are used. Soaking pits will normally be electrically heated. Slabs are loaded into the pit with the help of an overhead crane. After heating and soaking, aluminium slabs are discharged from the pit one by one for the rolling operation. Alternatively, continuous preheating furnaces are used. These allow the slabs to be continuously charged, one at

a time. They are discharged one at a time onto the rolling mill.

Precipitation, annealing and homogenising processes are to be carried

the canister of the press; it is important to get the billet temperature correct. Either a gas fired or induction heated pre-heater may be employed. Due to the nature of

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out on slabs as required by the applications up to temperatures as follows: Precipitation • Up to 210°C operating temperatures Annealing • Up to 425°C operating temperatures Homogenising • Up to 500°C operating temperatures Billet Billet is normally produced for subsequent extrusion processing. In general the furnaces found relating to billet are: Billet homogenisers, pre-heaters, ageing, and solution heat treatments. Pre-heaters are used adjacent to the “press”. As the extrusion billet must be pre-heated to enter

friction within the die of the press, “taper” heating can be employed to differentially heat the length of the billet to compensate for friction heating while pressing. This ensures a constant billet temperature throughout the pressing operation.

Subsequent extrusions then need to be heat treated further.

Solution heat treatment This process is performed by maintaining the proper exit temperature as the extrusion emerges from the press during the extrusion process and then quenching it at the proper rate. Temperatures and rates vary by alloy. Holding the extrusions at the proper temperature allows the aluminium, along with any alloying elements, to enter into a solid solution.

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Saving Energy and Fuel Lubisol Ltd is offering significant savings of energy and fuel by efficient thermal insulation of glass furnace crowns.

The Lubisol crown insulation design is based on the principle that the usual light silica bricks insulation is partly replaced by the Lubisol insulation, applied over the light silica bricks. It is followed by a layer of Lubisol Cover Coat on the top. The thickness and the total cost of the insulation remain almost the same, but the heat losses from the crown are reduced by about 800-1000 W/m². The amount of the saved fuel is around 1300-1500 m³/m²/year natural gas or 12001400 kg/m²/year heavy oil. The cost of the saved fuel is significant.

The insulating material Lubisol 2-SL has a very low specific density of 0.3 kg/dm³, a high working temperature of 1500 °C and a very low thermal conductivity of 0.11 W/m.K at 500 °C. The cost for one cubic meter of this insulating material is lower in comparison with the cost of the light silica bricks, and in the same time it is about 3 times more efficient.

The Lubisol crown insulation package is suitable for application on all types of glass furnaces producing any type of glasses, including float glass, container glass, tableware or technical glass. It is very suitable for insulation of silica crowns as well for AZS and alumina fused cast crowns. It has been applied recently on 80 glass furnaces all over the world.

The efficient Lubisol insulation package brings significant energy and fuel savings without any additional material and labor costs. It is just a very good technical solution and a better option for the glass industry. _____________________________________________ website: www.lubisol.com e-mail: office@lubisol.com

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Artificial ageing Magnesium and silicon are the major alloying elements in 6000 series alloys.

These elements combine to form magnesium silicide. The artificial ageing process produces fine grain magnesium silicide precipitates that will increase the strength of the 6000 alloys. Due to the effects on the magnesium silicide precipitates, this process may also be called precipitation heat treatment. The ageing process also occurs naturally (uncontrolled) over time. However, by controlling the times and temperatures in the artificial ageing ovens, maximum strength and benefits may be achieved.

Coil Out of the mill comes rolled coil or foils.

Mostly, coils and foils have to be annealed.

We now move to coil and foil annealing furnaces. These furnaces for coils are usually high flow furnaces which use high velocity gas impingement at the coil sides to maximise heat transfer and reduce heat up rates. Design is very important for temperature uniformity. Either electrically heated or gas heated are suitable. When it comes to foil annealing, care has to be taken that gas flows are not high enough to tear the foils during processing.

Induction melters Commonly, induction melters are used for a variety of aluminium melting processes.

Mostly involved in re-melt and production of castings, you will find many in the automotive industry. They are also used in the production of aluminium-lithium alloys.

Scrap At times it is important to pre-heat scrap prior to re-melting. Due to the nature of scrap storage and its origin, scrap may contain high levels of moisture. This can cause excessive evolution of steam in a very short time; creating explosive conditions in the re-melt environment. Pre-heating furnaces are used to pre-dry scrap or sows to eliminate hazardous moisture. Once pre-heated the material is then safe for remelting. Some reverbs are equipped with a hearth above the melt line to enable preheating without the need for a separate furnace.

We must mention rotary furnaces. These are used almost exclusively for scrap and dross re-melting. Originally, rotaries were horizontal and fixed axis, but required a lot of salt in operation, typically 1.5:1 of the non metallic content of the batch to be melted. With the advent of tilting rotary furnaces, it is normal to use ox-fuel burners and less salt. A salt ratio of 0.350.5:1 is fairly typical today.

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Others It is important to recognise that not all of the furnaces important in the aluminium industry directly treat the aluminium itself!

So where are we going with this?

Many furnaces heat treat the steels and are essential to processing aluminium.

Inside every aluminium extrusion shop you will find “die ovens”. Die ovens heat the extrusion dies prior to them being inserted into the press. We have multi cell die ovens and today single cell die ovens are proving more popular. It is important that the die is preheated to the correct temperature before applying it in the press. The die must not be overheated or heated for too long as “back tempering” will ensue and soften the die interior, causing premature die failure!

Of course, in the die shop of the extrusion department you will usually find the means to harden the surface of dies. A gas nitriding furnace is used to form a very hard surface onto the die, brand new dies and between each use as they get older.

This is normally carried out a 535°C in an ammonia rich atmosphere. Occasionally, plasma furnaces, equipped with vacuum systems may also be found nitriding in the die shop, but these are rare.

It is essential that the metallurgical properties of other “steels” in the aluminium industry receive the correct heat treatments. So we also have sealed quench furnaces, tempering furnaces, vacuum furnaces, salt bath furnaces and fluidised bed furnaces.

Gas nitriding

Rolling mill rolls, extrusion dies, gravity and high pressure dies are mostly made from (H13) hot work steel. During manufacture these require heat treatment by a variety of heat treatment furnaces: • Sealed quench furnaces, are gas tight furnaces with two chambers and are radiant tube heated. Normally an endothermic gas is circulated inside the furnace. This gas can be modified to achieve varying carbon potential.

Depending upon the metallurgical requirements, this carbon potential may be varied for decarburising to neutral or carburising by automatic controls. Most are fitted with internal oil quench tanks for fast cooling.

• Tempering furnaces are utilised to modify the full hardness of the hardened material to achieve a core hardness and structure appropriate to the application.

This is usually a further and separate stage to the hardening process.

• Vacuum furnaces are more likely to be used for the H13 steel, as it is a fully hardening steel, where carburising is not required. Vacuum furnace hardening will allow the rolls or dies to be kept clean throughout the heat treatment process, by eliminating oxygen. No oxygen means no oxidising of the steel and hence the dies will come out bright and shiny.

Many of the modern vacuum furnaces combine tempering in one prolonged cycle within the vacuum furnace. Instead of oil quenching; high pressure gas is used to quench the steel inside the furnace at pressures up to 10 bars. High purity nitrogen is typically the gas used.

Finally, you may find furnaces such as salt baths and fluid bed furnaces used for the above treatments. Salt baths heat the products in a molten salt environment and fluid bed furnaces utilise zircon sand fluidised by gasses as the heating media. In both cases, neutral conditions or nitriding conditions can be applied. In the case of the salt baths, this is achieved by the use of special salts, which imparts a nitride layer to extrusion dies. For fluid bed furnaces, ammonia gas is bubbled through the sand media to fluidise and impart the nitriding.

It is evident that there are many types of furnaces used in the aluminium sphere and the variety is very varied and complex. There are dozens of companies manufacturing furnaces globally and all have their particular specialism and expertise.

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Thermal process optimisation The cost-effective use of various gas analysers for profiling, monitoring and controlling furnaces and thermal processes. By Yvonne H. Boltz* & Eric S. Boltz

Optimisation for metal processing furnace atmospheres has proven to be difficult, costly and time consuming. Whether the difficulty comes in the form of choosing or employing an analyser or the use of many analysers, the collection and use of good data is not easily achieved.

When used properly electrolytic, optical and extractive sensors can provide vital information to profile many types of furnace atmospheres, reduce emissions, improve quality and operations, and lower fuel costs. The trick lies in the choice, placement, data collection and data usage for the various analysers. Furnace profiling can be extremely valuable in furnaces where the atmosphere dramatically impacts the final product, emissions are monitored and where large quantities of fuel are consumed.

Understanding the available technology, their strengths and shortcomings, and how to properly deploy analysers not only allow users to improve the quality and consistency of metal products, but also to control their furnaces better with greater fuel efficiency, less emissions and reduced costs for operation (scale, tolling, maintenance, etc.).

In general, a furnace is simply a metal sheath surrounding a housing of refractory bricks. But what happens inside that shell and box of bricks yields a variety of everyday materials, services and products upon which society and the economy rely. These include the production of steel, glass, aluminium and process chemicals, waste management and incineration, and many others. The heating mechanisms vary also, using a variety of fuels from pure oxygen to waste gases to electric arc. And the atmospheres

span the range from vacuum to air fired to inert, corrosive or clean and everything in between depending upon the final products. This paper is neither intended to be exhaustive nor a description of any one thermal process, but rather an overview of a variety of readily available and cost effective analysers and their uses to allow a user intimate with a specific process to understand and choose technologies that match their needs.

Background Most thermal processes use electric currents or conventional combustion to heat the furnace and the materials being used. For electric processes, heating is via current. For electrolysis, an electrolyte, current and two electrodes are required; the choice electrode materials depend up on the process and can greatly affect the manufacturing costs. Electric Arc furnaces usually rely on three electrodes with the heating occurring via the arc formed between the electrodes and the charged materials; the charge is heated via the current and the radiant energy from the arc itself. These processes are very clean but still result in slag and waste materials where atmosphere control can be beneficial to overall product quality and yield.

For fuel-based systems, a fuel (natural gas, waste gas, coal, etc.) is combined with an oxygen source (air, pure oxygen) to burn the fuel for heat. In a perfect combustion process using natural gas, the equation would be: CH4 + 2O2 + CO2 + 2H2O + heat In a perfect world, the ratio would be

stoichiometric resulting in the formation of only heat, water and carbon dioxide. But processes can be messy with impurities, most oxygen is from air, which contains nitrogen, and fuels are not always natural gas. Monitoring the internal atmosphere of a process can result in less emissions, better production, lower fuel costs and overall increased efficiency.

To monitor the internal atmospheres, there are a variety of in-situ and extractive analysers that rely on a range of technologies from electrolytic to optical to thermal methods.

Optical analysers Optical analysers range from tunable diode laser absorption systems to infrared technologies. Most optical analysers require line of sight or clean sampling and can range in costs of a few thousand to over a million dollars for a full system.

One of the most cost effective techniques for optical analysis in a furnace is Non-Dispersive Infra-Red absorption (NDIR). NDIR relies on the interaction of a molecule with IR and the resultant absorption of some of the energy into the molecule. Light/energy absorption occurs at specific wavelengths determined by the conformation or molecular structure of the species. This absorption is quantifiable but it can be affected by many factors including changes in pressure and temperatures, electronic drift of detectors, optical path clarity and other species absorption. Multiple species can be detected within a single analyser.

NDIR analysers vary in accuracy, reproducibility and maintenance requirements. There are both hand-held, spot analysers for the quick check and a

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variety of hard mounted, continuous online analysers available. The hand-held units can use either single beam or double beam configurations.

Single beam relies on frequent zero and spanning, has high drift (1-2% per 20 minutes) and process factors (i.e., fudge factors) to correct for atmospheric changes. It is comprised of a single beam that passes through the sample, a filter and on to a detector. Double beam incorporates a reference wavelength signal that is subtracted from the target gas signal. This method provides “common mode” noise rejection, compensating for temperature, pressure and detector drift. Daily zero/span for a double beam hand-held is usually sufficient for accurate readings. Both single and double beam systems are relatively inexpensive and provide spot results quickly.

Hard-mounted, on-line systems provide continuous analysis of the atmosphere within a furnace. Most of these systems are fully automated for sampling (either single point or multi-point), zero/span, multipoint calibration, leak detection, selfdiagnostics and typically more sensitive, robust, higher quality analyser.

Electrolytic analysers A commonly used analyser for high temperature applications is based on the yttria-stabilized zirconia for the detection of oxygen. Zirconia conducts oxygen ions, most readily detectable above 600°C, across a porous electrode. The driving force for conduction is the difference in oxygen partial pressures and oxygen reduction and follows Nernstian behaviour for electromotive force. The transfer of oxygen ions across the electrodes results in a millivolt signal that when measured along with local temperature measurement, is proportional to the difference in partial pressures of oxygen across those electrodes and can be used to calculate the percent oxygen present in the gas stream.

Zirconia is incorporated into a variety of analysers for process oxygen detection and quantification. These can be extractive or in-situ, heated and non-heated but they all are comprised of the same basic components: an electrolyte, a thermocouple, reference air, electrodes and in many cases heaters and pumps. Non-heated, in-situ analysers have the advantage of their operating temperatures being 600°C to 1600°C allowing for detection in the hot zones of the furnace which also acts as the heater for the electrolyte. This type of detection is nearly instantaneous and can be used to control the oxygen levels in a furnace and the combustion. For lower temperature oxygen analysis, there are extractive Aluminium International Today

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zirconia analysers.

Non-heated, in-situ zirconia analysers are robust in high temperatures, respond quickly to changes in oxygen and allow for controlling combustion and also feed forward corrections to the atmosphere for controlling emissions.

Extractive analysers Zirconia analysers for oxygen measurement are available in extractive or in-situ configurations and are very robust. The extractive version works the same way as the non-heated analyser described above.

NDIR and FTIR analysers are typically considered extractive but they also rely on the absorption of wavelengths of light for detection of various species.

Extractive sensors are employed in many types of analytical equipment from chromatography to Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS). CEMS are required for permitting in most countries and they monitor the components of flue gas, specifically oxygen, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury, particulates, volatile organics, acids as well as opacity and moisture. These systems are complex combinations of a variety of analysers that do the measuring of the individual species and provide a model for choosing analysers for use on a smaller scale.

CEMS incorporate NDIR, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), ultraviolet (UV) and visible (Vis) analysers for many of the gas species desired. Many manufacturers make stand alone or portable versions of these optical analysers. Also used in CEMS are flame ionization (FID) and thermal conductivity (TCD) detectors that are commonly used in various chromatographic systems. FID detects ions generated during the combustion of organics in a hydrogen flame; hydrocarbons are best for this application.

TCD measures changes in thermal conductivity of an effluent compared to a reference flow of gas and it measures species that cannot be seen by FID such as O2, CO2, N2 and argon.

Additional analysers round out the components for a CEMS: Paramagnetic sensors, chemiluminescence (CLD) and electrochemical cells.

Paramagnetic sensors are an alternative for zirconia based oxygen analysers and are best suited in cleaner applications and stack sensing. CLDs measure the emission of light from a chemical reaction. Their use in gas and combustion analysis makes them a vital part of the CEMS in measuring trace and small impurities, nitrogen oxides, ozone and radicals generated in combustion effluents. CLDs have very low detection limits, approaching parts per billion for some species. Electrochemical

sensors measure the current generated by the oxidation or reduction of a target species at an electrode. These sensors are readily available and are cost effective for use in permanent and portable detectors.

Paramagnetic, CLD and electrochemical sensors are used primarily for the detection of the following species: CO, CO2, O2, SO2 and NOx. Putting it together Choosing and using sensors for thermal processes can be a matter of regulation from government bodies, efficiency concerns, final product quality, operating maintenance and/or fuel savings. In traditional combustion processes such as metals reheating or melting, fuel savings and product quality can be paramount and thus the ability to react fast to changing combustion atmosphere in the hot zones is critical. This is where real-time analysers that are capable of withstanding the high temperatures are applied, such as zirconia based oxygen analysers. The ability to monitor and respond to the oxygen presence in real time improves fuel efficiency and can decrease scale and product waste.

To measure and reduce emissions, a variety of flue gas analysers and hot zone analysers can be used. If sensors are capable of operating in the hot zone, they allow for feed forward reactions to changing internal conditions and thus, tighter process control and the possible prevention of excursions of species such as CO and NOx. Flue measurements are typically representative of the whole process and do not allow for preempting excursions, however, the information determined by a variety of sensors in the exhaust can be used to make adjustments to the process. But first, the data has to be collected and used effectively.

The most effective use of sensors and analysers involve automated solutions incorporated into the DCS or SCADA systems of a plant. Manual adjustments can be made based upon individual readings but these can be slow and depend upon personnel being available.

Automating valves, dampers, filters and other components allow for fast response and continued monitoring from the control center of the plant while continuously logging data.

By looking at the component analysers that make up the expensive, fully configured CEMS, one can choose the sensors and analysers that works best for the application in a cost effective and targeted manner. Some manufacturers offer a modular approach to what can essentially operate as a “mini-CEM” and can provide control systems assistance or turn-key solutions for thermal processes.  November/December 2015

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Keep on rolling Even a good design can be improved upon and Granco Clark has made some major changes lately. These changes are focused on a few key areas, including efficiency, durability, and ease of maintenance.

First, the burners were spread around the perimeter of the log. Past designs had the burners in a row, down the side of the logs on the smaller sizes or staggered 22° over/ under centre on the larger sizes. The new design has the burners 40° over/under centre on all sizes. This promotes uniform heating, as the flame is distributed in near perfect symmetry about the log centreline.

There is also a “sweet spot” in the flame where maximum heat transfer occurs.

The new design accommodates a smaller range of diameters to ensure that any log diameter in the furnace falls into the best heat transfer range of the burners.

Older models would accommodate 6”-9”, 8”-12”, 11”-16”, etc. New models have ranges like 10”-12” or 9”-11” or 8”-10”.

The furnace tunnel has also been redesigned to allow the exhaust gasses to flow the length of the furnace in a chamber well away from the burners. In this fashion, the velocity of the exhaust gasses does not affect the direction or shape of the flame, again allowing the best possible heat transfer from the burner.

The focus on durability is all about the roller bed system. The new roller design is four times larger in diameter than the old roller. It therefore rotates only once for every time the old roller rotated four times. An added benefit to the larger diameter is that the wear surfaces are far removed from the flames and operate at much cooler temperatures.

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diameters allows for this steeper angle.

The trunnions of the roller are also machined and ride in machined bores in replaceable bushing blocks. All of the machining results in rollers that run truer and turn easier than ever before. You can actually push a 12” diameter by 20’ log into the furnace by hand.

We expect a life of at least five years, at which time the roller trunnions can be sleeved and re-machined to extend their service another five years.

The final focus was on ease of maintenance. The crown blocks still hinge open like before, but the side panels of the burner section are also removable with just a few bolts. That means the roller bed can be serviced while standing on the floor with everything waist high – instead of working from only the top like before. The removable side panels come

out with the gas train and burner blocks intact, meaning that they can be rebuilt on a bench somewhere rather than in place. One could conceivably maintain a second replacement set of panels for a quick rebuild when downtime must be minimised.

The new furnace design is not for everyone. For example, the larger diameter roller limits the length of precut billets to a minimum of 16”. If you require a wide range of log diameters, or very short precut billets, then the old design would still be the best choice.

The old design will continue to be available because the components will have to be available as spares long into the future.  Contact www.grancoclark.com

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Association profile: BIFCA The British Industrial Furnace Constructors Association (BIFCA) has seen considerable changes since it first began its life in 1947 as the Society for Industrial Furnace Engineers (SIFE). It is now the UK Trade Association representing the interests of designers, manufacturers and the leading component suppliers of thermprocessing equipment and services to the furnace industry.

Through its involvement with government and industry bodies, meetings, seminars, conferences and exhibitions, BIFCA seeks to promote and represent the views of its members and the industry in general, helping to influence EU and UK policy, legislation, and industry standards relevant to the manufacture and use of industrial furnaces and laboratory ovens.

Membership of BIFCA is open to companies with registered offices in the UK who are involved in the design and manufacture of industrial furnaces and ovens, or who supply component and ancillary equipment to the industry.

standards, new directives and a sharing of best practice.

In partnership with CECOF, BIFCA endorses certain European and worldwide furnace exhibitions that are visited by delegates from many high profile companies throughout the global furnace industry.

Energy efficiency mark BIFCA is involved with a number of activities and initiatives that are aimed at promoting the UK furnace industry and best practice within it. One of the initiatives implemented by BIFCA is the promotion

of an energy efficiency mark. This is open to manufacturers and suppliers who can demonstrate through product design or installation, a saving in energy costs via increased productivity, lower energy usage or higher throughput. End users can also qualify for this mark in partnership with their supplier by demonstrating an energy saving gained through investment in product, process or installation.

Exhibitions BIFCA is also often called upon to endorse certain UK and International exhibitions.

In such cases, the association is able to

Technical courses The association provides a series of technical courses that focus on furnace operation and efficiency, with courses on Burner Technology, Furnace controls, Modelling and Induction technology.

These courses have been designed to meet the requirements of the furnace industry for specialist information, knowledge and training. The courses are reviewed, assessed and updated regularly to take advantage of any advancement in technology or amendments to legislation.

BIFCA is continually monitoring the industry for topics that can be added to its technical programme, with courses on Vacuum technology, Refractories and Gas Safety awareness all currently being considered.

BIFCA courses are aimed primarily at end users but are equally beneficial to manufacturers and suppliers with attendees having originated from international companies on numerous occasions in recent years.

CECOF BIFCA actively participates in the work of the European Federation of Furnace Associations (CECOF), where BIFCA is represented on the Executive Committee and where its members are able to benefit from the activities of CECOF. Members are invited to attend CECOF’s Annual General Assembly, Gala Dinner and networking functions, which involve meetings on Aluminium International Today

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offer its members increased promotional and international exposure, with effective PR being gained for the exhibition organisers by raising the profile of the exhibition amongst the industry through BIFCA’s channels of communication.

Standards seminar BIFCA hosts an annual standards seminar in the UK during March/April where delegates come from all over the UK and beyond to receive the latest information available from BIFCA and its allied organisations such as CECOF and Europe on standards, directives and applicable legislation.

Delegates attending the seminar are kept informed of any changes to standards and legislation relevant to the industry. A central theme of the seminar over recent years has been the evolvement of the EN 746 series of standards and their incorporation into CEN/TC186, and the emergence and growth of the International standard ISO/TC 244.

Ever since their inception within European protocol, standards and legislation have continued to have an impact on the industry with changes and reviews at core directives (i.e. the Machinery Directive) being inherent. The

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Standards seminar has provided regular updates on Energy using Products (EuP) and ATEX (equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres) and Electro Magnetic Fields directive (EMF) as well as providing discussion on important topics such as Refractory Ceramic Fibres (RCF’s) and CE marking and compliance. The BIFCA annual Standards Seminar is where the UK industry discusses legislation and topics of interest that affect end users as well as manufacturers and component suppliers, particularly in the UK, where all parties in the supply chain hold a responsibility for the safe operation of the furnace equipment.

Thermex 247 Thermex 247 is an online continual exhibition running for the benefit of the industry in real time: www.thermex247. net is a “virtual showcase” that provides an online exhibition with virtual company stands, reception and media area.

Members can choose to select a stand from various designs and populate it with information on their company, products and services by way of photographs, data sheets and Power Point presentations.

This information can then be accessed, viewed and downloaded by potential clients visiting the exhibition website. This opportunity is open to exhibitors from members and non-members who can showcase their products and services at a nominal cost.

Website For more information on BIFCA visit the BIFCA website www.bifca.org.uk, where you will find a number of useful areas including a review and profile of BIFCA members, and a comprehensive search engine and database of equipment suppliers and other useful information.

There are also sections on training, course dates, news, application stories, information updates, events and much more.

BIFCA welcomes any enquiries from readers of Aluminium International Today who should contact: enquiry@bifca.org.uk Aluminium International Today readers are also welcome to attend the BIFCA Safety & Standards Seminar on Thursday 21st April 2016 (details on request) and find out more at how the standards affect the furnace industry. 

CAN-ENG Contract CAN-ENG Furnaces International Limited has been contracted to design, manufacture and commission an automated system for the heat treatment of thin-walled high pressure die cast aluminium automotive structural components by an automotive manufacturer located in California, USA. CAN-ENG was chosen for this new lightweighting project because CAN-ENG’s flexible, cost effective heat treatment technology allows manufacturers to integrate new processing systems into existing manufacturing cells, avoiding prohibitive large-scale continuous processing systems capital costs.

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Compact casthouse New high productivity arrangement for small ingots production in Kitimat.

Rio Tinto – AP Technology delivers the industry’s most comprehensive smelter package combining AP Technology with a century of aluminium production experience.

One key component of this package is the compact ingot casthouse design. It incorporates best practices and modern instrumentation to deliver an efficient and safer casthouse.

The compact casthouse design was first described in a TMS paper(1) in 2011. Since then, Rio Tinto has built a new casthouse using the main features of this design as part of its Kitimat Modernisation Project in British Colombia, Canada, currently under start-up.

Kitimat Modernisation Project The Kitimat Modernisation Project (KMP) is a US $4.8 billion dollar investment to modernise the 60 year-old Kitimat smelter.

The first hot metal was produced in June 2015 and the focus is now on the continued safe and sustainable ramp-up towards full production of approximately 420,000 tonnes, expected in 2016.

The modernised smelter has set the highest standards for performance and responsible metal production in the aluminium industry. Featuring the latest evolution in Rio Tinto’s AP Technology prebake technology, and powered

Fig 1. 3D view of a trio: Three furnaces – two ingot lines

exclusively by hydroelectricity from the company’s wholly owned Kemano power generating station, the Kitimat smelter will be one of the most productive and competitive aluminium smelters, producing metal with the lowest carbon footprint of the industry.

Strategically located on Canada’s west coast, Kitimat is well positioned to serve the rapidly growing demand for aluminium in the Pacific Rim as well as customers in North America.

Compact casthouse: Equipment & layout The nominal capacity of the new casthouse for the Kitimat Modernisation project is 300,000 t/y dedicated to the production of small ingots. For this type of production, a conventional installation

would have been to have two groups of two holding furnaces connected to an ingot line operating independently. The capacity of the (four) furnaces is geared to that of the ingot line and the arrival of metal from the potlines.

The new arrangement constructed consists in a shared launder connecting the three furnaces and the two ingot lines as schematically shown in Fig 1.

While a single furnace is casting, the two others are being filled in preparation.

Alternatively, each furnace casts either on one or two ingot lines. The operating mode proposed is to have only a single furnace casting at any time. Depending on their availability, a furnace casts on one or both ingot lines. A line can be started up or shut down without any problem while the other line is casting.

Fig 2. Kitimat Casting Furnaces

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Reduced number of shifts ending with metal delays (backlog): ■ From 3.8% down to 2.5% ■ More furnace availability ■ By 5% ■ Less casting time (from higher

casting rate) ■ By 6% ■

Melt loss In order to minimise melt loss, it is recommended to reduce metal turbulence during transfer and limit the time that the aluminium is liquid to avoid oxidation.

The Kitimat arrangement favours these two principles: ■ Metal transfer from the crucible to the furnace assured by siphoning (Fig 5) ■ Minimum residence time in the furnace with high casting rate The melt loss is estimated at below 0.5% wt matching benchmarks of the industry.

Fig 3. Kitimat casthouse layout for 300 kt/y small ingots

Specific to the Kitimat project, the furnace capacity is 100t (Fig 2) and the ingot line casting rate is rated at 30t/hour.

With this arrangement, Kitimat can go up to a casting rate of 60 t/hour out of a single furnace.

For the Kitimat smelter, the arrangement originally proposed has evolved to a modified layout as shown in Fig 3.

The symmetrical layout of the ingot lines makes it possible to keep the operators’ working area completely separate from the area in which vehicles normally operate making it a much safer environment.

With the compact casthouse design, Rio Tinto is succeeding in keeping investment costs under control (CAPEX), increasing productivity and getting maximum efficiency from the equipment.

Expected performances In addition to the Capex saving obtained from a configuration featuring an optimised number of furnaces and a reduced building layout, a better operational performance is expected from this high productivity compact casthouse design.

Energy consumption Over the last few years, Rio Tinto has been very active on improving energy efficiency in all its casthouse installations and implementing best practice to reduce specific gas consumption through continuous improvement.

These learnings have been implemented in Kitimat casting furnaces. Once Kitimat reached its nominal capacity, a saving of 100 MJ/t is expected from the reference consumption of 450 MJ/t.

This means a potential saving close to $1/t on the operational cost of the casthouse.

Safety (EH&S) The layout of aluminium casthouses has important consequences with respect to safety. Throughout all project phases, from design to construction and operation, numerous risk analysis activities have been performed to meet the highest safety standards as promoted

by Rio Tinto for all its installations.

One of these activities has been Process Fig 4. Kitimat casthouse

Higher equipment utilisation The Asset Utilisation Rate (AUR) of such a system is improved in two ways: ■ Number of equipment reduced by

25% (three furnaces instead of four) ■ Cycle time reduced by reducing

casting time (casting at 60t/h instead

of 30t/h).

If we compare the conventional layout (four furnaces/two lines) to the Kitimat arrangement (three furnaces/two lines), we have improved operation ability with:

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Key Performance Indicators. (Fig 7).

Fig 5. Metal transfer

Hazard Analysis (PHA) review of the proposed launder system of the KMP which was conducted using the Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) approach.

The FMEA analysis was done late January, 2013. A total of 23 risks were identified in this study, which were analysed by a multidisciplinary team against potential Health, Safety, Environment, and economic types of consequences.

Although no Critical risk (Class IV) was found, there were a few High level risks (Class III), Moderate level (Class II) risks and Low level (Class I) risks identified.

All of them were assessed leading to recommendations to eliminate those risks and identify mitigations for the remaining few.

Only one Class III or High level risk remains and is related to potential injury either due to metal overflowing or explosion due to residual moisture in the launder in case of insufficient heating, or to burns due to exposure of personnel to hot air from blowers. Recommendations were made by the team for all High level (Class III) risks in order to mitigate the risks to an “As Low As Reasonably Practical” (ALARP) level.

Today, Rio Tinto’s employees are operating in the safest environment

Fig 6. Screen shot of the MESAL for casthouse

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possible thanks to the dedication and the hard work done by all the teams involved during the construction phase.

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) - MESAL Access to reliable, real-time information is crucial to the smelter’s success. The Kitimat project is an excellent platform for our industry leading Manufacturing Execution System (MES) solution. The fully integrated Manufacturing Execution System for Aluminium (MESAL) solution is implemented at the Kitimat casthouse.

The MESAL for casthouse covers the flow and tracking optimisation needs for this sector, in relation with the other smelter systems. It covers the whole production chain in the casthouse: ■ Hot metal flow management ■ Ingot chain operation management ■ Dashboards & data analysis (B&C

casting, Comparative analysis) MESAL is fully deployed at Kitimat and it is a key element in the global success of the smelter start-up phase.

Rio Tinto is in the process of implementing a mobile application of the MESAL, which is providing daily reports to the company management, on defined

Start-up update The Rio Tinto Compact Casthouse concept was presented at the TMS event in early 2011. Several months later in December 2011, the Kitimat Modernisation Project received its Notice To Proceed. As part of this project, the Compact Casthouse design has been built and was delivered to Rio Tinto’s BC Operations team in 2015.

Since that time, the three furnaces and two lines has been progressively operated, closely following the pots ramp-up.

The Rio Tinto Compact Casthouse has already demonstrated its sturdiness from the precommissioning to the June 2015 startup and during the current ramp-up.

The three furnaces – two lines are operating safely, sustainably and efficiently.

Conclusion Rio Tinto – AP Technology has developed an ingot casthouse, the trio furnace arrangement (three furnaces supplying two ingot lines) that offers substantial gains in comparison with the traditional solution using pairs (two furnaces supplying one ingot line).

This arrangement showcases a better equipment utilisation leading to a reduced layout while matching the highest HSE criteria.

This high productivity casthouse compact package has been selected by the KMP project team and was constructed and started in 2015.

Rio Tinto is expecting benchmark performance for the production of small ingots in terms of productivity, melt loss and energy consumption.

This arrangement forms part of the AP technology package and is retained for Rio Tinto projects.  Reference [1] “New Casthouse Smelter Layout For The Production Of Small Non-Alloyed Ingots: Three Furnaces / Two Lines; Berlioux J., Baudrenghien JL, Bourgier A., Rio Tinto, TMS Light Metal 2011.

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Sapa acquires casting plant Sapa has completed an asset purchase agreement with Northwest Aluminium Specialties, inc. to acquire its casting plant in The Dalles, Oregon, USA.

This facility brings Sapa’s North American casthouse network to a total of nine locations and provides additional strength to Sapa Extrusion’s West region, including the Portland manufacturing plant.

Under the terms of the agreement, Sapa has purchased the physical assets of the Northwest Aluminum Specialties casting facility including: Plant, property, equipment, and inventory. The company looks to retain the majority of the more than 50 employees employed at the plant.

“This asset acquisition provides us with vertical integration for our extrusion

presses and expands our casting business, allowing us to better manage our internal metal supply chain while also growing our high quality aluminium log sales to the market,” said Michael Stier, Vice President and General Manager of the West region at Sapa. “We look forward to welcoming The Dalles casthouse to the Sapa family and continuing to strategically grow our business.”

The Dalles casthouse will cast aluminium logs, which will then be used for aluminium extrusion at Sapa’s existing production facility in Portland.

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Re-melt expansion project As part of the Garmco expansion project, Fives has been awarded an EPC contract for the construction of a new re-melt & casting facility in Bahrain. By Lee Allen* Garmco’s Bahrain-based international aluminium rolling mill is one of the largest downstream aluminium facilities in the Middle East. This project includes the building of a new casthouse to enable Garmco to develop its metal recycling capability and lower the cost of producing cast aluminium slabs for rolling.

As the Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) contractor, Fives will be fully responsible for the timely and successful execution of the contract.

Fives has a long experience in process integration, project management and execution combined with in-house multidiscipline engineering expertise. Over the past 15 years, Fives has executed several lump-sum turnkey contracts in the Middle East, while supplying more than 50 furnaces since 2003 including integrated casthouse solutions.

The re-melt facility will be capable of producing 120,000 metric tonnes per year of cast slab product to stringent industrial expectations of metal and casting quality for a varied production campaign of alloys and slab sizes. Fives is responsible for all engineering and project management and construction services associated with the plant and will use the latest 3D engineering tools and project management techniques to ensure the smooth execution of the project. The plant will be located on Garmco’s existing real estate but is a complete new build, incorporating utility and power infrastructures, a purpose built casthouse building and all civil works.

The challenging ground conditions at the job site with a very high water table, will need special measures in the civil designs to ensure that the completed civil works remains impervious to water; this includes a sophisticated construction process combining soil reinforcement columns, Piling and Secant piles.

One of the aims of the project is to produce cast slabs in a sustainable way; this will be achieved by incorporating a twin chamber melting furnace capable

of melting contaminated scrap from external sources. The ability to recycle scrap metal in to useful liquid metal will significantly optimise the operating costs for Garmco. Approximately 50% of the plant metal throughput could be provided by recycling aluminium this way.

Associated with the twin chamber furnace will be a chip feeding and submerging system that will process aluminium chips from the downstream processes on the plant and distribute them into the furnace. Automated circulation and metal transferring systems will also be provided.

The twin chamber furnace will also have an air pollution control system to manage the furnace emissions to comply with the environmental conditions applicable to the project.

Liquid metal from the twin chamber furnace will feed 2 x tilting melter/holder furnaces where the metal will be further refined and mixed to create the necessary alloy mix ahead of casting. The tilting furnaces will be capable of delivering the metal flow at the required tolerances of the casting machine. Two purpose designed charging machines will tend to all the charging requirements of the furnaces. The project will have a ‘zero chlorine’ policy in the new plant and so the relevant technologies for metal treatment including fluxing, degassing and filtering

equipment have been incorporated; the configuration of this equipment will be organised to achieve the specific metal qualities necessary for ensuring good cast products and eventually high quality aluminium coils. One slab casting machine capable of dropping up to 66te of cast metal to the required finished quality and tolerances will be supplied.

Eventually, the project will be a standalone facility and will be capable of maintaining operations independently. All of the associated equipment to do this will be supplied, such as a casting water cooling system with evaporative cooling towers and a specific water treatment system, a casting machine mould maintenance shop, process cranes and material handling systems, operational tools, all process and motor controls employing a unique configuration devised for this cast house, one fire protection system, one plant CCTV system, plant offices and access roads. One overall control, communication and data capturing system will be supplied to enable the operators to monitor equipment operation remotely and transfer production data to Garmco’s existing plant wide data handling system.

Fives will also assist Garmco with the onsite management of a new band saw installation, which is incorporated into the overall design of the casthouse. 

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Interview with Frank Pollmann, CEO, TAHA International Corporation As the founder of TAHA International Corporation, what inspired you to direct the company’s focus to aluminium dross recycling?

Dross is the residual material from any process in which aluminium is melted; it is a by-product, a waste, and a nuisance to aluminium producers. I saw an opportunity upon realising the inefficient way the aluminium industry deals with its dross. Given that aluminium manufacturers would rather focus on their core business, little attention is paid to this inherent waste by-product, which unknowingly becomes very costly.

Traditional processes skim dross from furnaces; and attempt to recover the metal through expensive and energy intensive salt rotary furnaces, where salt must be added in order for the metal to not get consumed in the flames, which in the end produces the highly toxic “salt cake.”

Dross generally represents between 1% and 3% of the metal’s weight, and, depending on the process, its metal content can vary from 30% to 70%. With reduced aluminium prices, coupled with increasing salt prices, the old-fashioned methods of recovering metal from dross is becoming increasingly out of sync from a client’s cost perspective to the point that it is more costly to retrieve the metal than what it is actually worth.

We posed the question; if the dross already has the energy in it, why not process it right then and there, for a safer, more energy efficient and cost-effective solution?

Dross processing is a competitive industry with established players.

What makes TAHA’s process so unique?

TAHA’s patented two-stage process is unique because it requires neither extra energy nor salt, yielding no toxic material by-product. TAHA’s onsite operations avoids the need to reheat the dross, and due to this rapid, low-energy process up to 90% of available metal in the dross can be recovered in the first stage and can be returned immediately to the original furnace without further alloying.

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Special preview: A glimpse of GBR’s report on aluminium in the GCC all of the remaining aluminium in the dross through a meticulous mechanical separation process that includes the use of a non-ferrous metal separator. This recovered metal is collected, re-melted and sold or returned to the casthouse, completing the recycling process.

Separately, the residual oxides can be used in a variety of downstream product applications furthering TAHA’s zero waste solution.

TAHA’s main objective is to collaborate with and assist the client in dross management. Aluminium producers, unfortunately, are accustomed to drossrecycling companies who may view more dross as an opportunity to recycle more metal.

This is where TAHA differs at the core.

Dross is inherent to any aluminium process; however, TAHA differentiates itself by working with our clients to implement practices that lead to a reduction in dross generation, because that is where the biggest financial loss takes place. Moreover, it does not suffice to only reduce dross generation; more importantly, improved skimming practices lead to a better quality of dross.

The collaboration between our experts and casthouse personnel is key to dross management. This relationship allows for an effective transfer of knowledge on how to deal with dross, emphasising an aspect that most companies overlook, which is the timing of the skimming in order to produce less, yet better quality dross.

Can you provide us with a case study that illustrates the efficiency of TAHA’s process?

In 2009 and 2010, we conducted a twoyear trial at GARMCO, the first and one of the largest downstream aluminium facilities in the Middle East for rolling, cutting and fabricating aluminium, comparing on-site one bucket of skimmed dross side-by-side with a traditional rotary furnace. Over those two years, TAHA’s

process consistently recovered more metal than the state-of-the-art rotary furnace was able to recover. All of this was done while transparently returning every bit of metal to GARMCO. How can TAHA’s process serve to create value added products downstream?

Dross should not be viewed as a waste, but rather, as an economic source of valuable aluminium oxide to serve as feedstock for other products. TAHA manufactures in our New Zealand plant a fertilizer that works extremely well there and in soil types that have increased salt levels, which under normal conditions do not allow for plant growth.

Another use is Aluminium tri-hydrate (ATH); a white powder, that is typically made out of the raw material, bauxite.

TAHA collaborated with a German research institute and created a process that converts residual aluminium oxide, from the dross process, into ATH, a very valuable product used in flame retardant applications and is a commodity traded worldwide.

What are your priorities for TAHA’s future growth and expansion?

A key to achieve TAHA’s mission to assist the aluminium industry change the way it deals with its dross is through awareness and expansion regionally and globally.

Regionally, we are in discussions with other smelters and downstream players in the GCC, however, globally, we see promising opportunities for our cost-effective and zero-waste solution in the United States and Europe, where the latter prohibits salt cake landfill and disposing of it is quite an expensive process.

TAHA’s objective over the next few years is to significantly scale its dross recycling process to help the global aluminium industry efficiently handle an onsite environmental hazard and produce valueadded products.  Aluminium International Today

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Interview with Sulaiman MKA Suwaidi, President & CEO; Waheed Ahmed, General Manager; Kashif Nazir, Plant Manager, Cast Aluminium Industries Can you introduce the company and the key milestones within the its history since it was first established in 1990?

(Suwaidi) Cast Aluminium Industries was first founded to cater to the construction industry to make erected products like main gates, villa gates, grills, balconies, which all need to be aluminium casted and powder coated.

In 1995, Cast Aluminium Industries took a great step forward when the company began to buy some of Dubai Aluminium's (DUBAL) generated dross to feed into our own foundry to make the alloys. After three to four years of recycling aluminium dross, Cast Aluminium Industries approached DUBAL to allow us to handle the recycling of their dross, which at the time was being sent to a competitor in Bahrain, illustrating how this would save costs and reduce their environmental footprint. In 1999, Cast Aluminium Industries won the aluminium dross contract for 3,000 m/t per year. After 20 years, Cast Aluminium Industries is now managing 40,000 m/t per year, having split the operations into two: One dedicated to fabrication and casting and the other to dross recycling.

Today, Cast Aluminium Industries is a very specialised company and a 100% recycler.

Cast Aluminium Industries works only with aluminium dross, which is a hazardous commodity, class 4.3, indicating that its cross-boundry movement is restricted. As such, to process dross certain licensing is required and Cast Aluminium Industries is proud to be the only company in the UAE that is licensed to handle this material.

Cast Aluminium Industries plans to open a new facility in the new Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad). What was the impetus behind this move?

(AHMED) One challenge that Cast Aluminium Industries had to overcome was the site size constraint in Al Quoz.

When Cast Aluminium Industries was first established in Al Quoz, this was Dubai’s only industrial area allocated by the authorities. However, the growth of Dubai has been robust over the last three decades and the enormous growth in the real estate sector has rendered Al Quoz the heart of the city.

Kizad will be a significant industrial hub, especially for aluminium, as the Kizad developers want to attract significant investment in the downstream of this industry. Cast Aluminium Industries will become a part of that downstream industry as it will be able to manage the dross of new clients in the area.

To accommodate existing and expected new business, Cast Aluminium Industries will need a much larger facility in Kizad, as the company currently only has 8,000m2 in Al Quoz. Cast Aluminium Industries is looking to expand into 33,000m2, with what will be a state of the art facility. With the civil contract already awarded, the goal is to start construction by the middle of 2015 so that operations can begin in the fourth quarter of 2016.

How will Kizad benefit from the presence of Cast Aluminium Industries’ facility?

(NAZIR) Cast Aluminium Industries is synonymous with the aluminium sector in the region and Kizad aims to attract more and more downstream and aluminium related industry. By having Cast Aluminium Industries present, Kizad will be able to use our reputation as a specialised recycler of aluminium to attract more aluminium investment as there will already be a framework in place for companies entering Kizad to manage their dross

and very importantly, this discussion can commence during a company’s planning stages.

Cast Aluminium Industries is working to become zero-waste-tolandfill. Can you tell us why this designation is so important?

(AHMED) As per Abu Dhabi governmental regulations, companies cannot generate waste-to-landfill. Once Cast Aluminium Industries’ facility in Kizad is operational, the company, will process the dross and as the company will then be zero-wasteto-landfill, we will be closing the loop.

Any new facility will generate dross and thus will need to make an environmental impact statement just to get the basic approvals. These investors must either find a solution themselves or incorporate dross recycling. It makes little sense for companies to process their own dross as it can be very expensive to do without scale, increasing their project costs and making these projects commercially not feasible.

Cast Aluminium Industries is the third party solution.

If Global Business Reports were to return in three to five years, where would we find Cast Aluminium Industries?

(AHMED) Cast Aluminium Industries’ vision is to become the one-step-shop for the smelters of the region and is on track to becoming this. In the short- to medium-term, Cast Aluminium Industries will expand into Kizad, using this facility to work with the primary smelters of the region and the downstream industries while the original facility in Al Quoz will be dedicated to northern emirates and any other overseas business. 

These interviews were conducted as part of GBR’s research on the aluminium industry in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.

The final report will appear in Aluminium International Today’s Jan/Feb 2016 edition.

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Rolling plant investment A few years ago, Shandong Weiqiao Pioneering Group (China) made the strategic decision to further advance its presence in the aluminium industry by investing in a new flat rolling plant.

The stated goal is to also rank among the leading Chinese rolling plants in the aluminium industry and to be in demand worldwide as a supplier of premium rolled products. The decision by Weiqiao to rely on Achenbach technology for both foil rolling and strip rolling is a success for Achenbach because a reference plant attracting a great of attention is currently being built in Weihai with a large 2,300mm-wide rolling mill and 1,850mmwide thin strip rolling mill.

New litho sheet plant Both rolling mills have come online to the satisfaction of the customer and are in the optimisation phase. Together, they will represent the core of production for litho sheets. Both rolling mills are automated with the OPTIROLL i3 system and equipped with OPTIPURE systems. These include SUPERSTACK II systems for rolling oil micro-filtration and a large AIRPURE system for exhaust air purification because environmental protection is very important to Shandong Weiqiao.

The two rolling mills are interconnected by a connection to a high bay warehouse.

Coils are moved fully automatically by coil manipulators to the rolling line where the strips are first prepared in coil preparation stations and then automatically threaded

into the rolling mills. The compact design of the rolling mills ensures optimum strip throughput with low auxiliary process times. To reliably meet the demanding rolling tasks at maximum productivity while preserving resources, the rolling mills have the following features:  Heavy coil weights of up to 32 tons are rolled under high strip tensions at rolling speeds of up to 1,500m/min to strip thicknesses of 0.1mm, reliably ensuring the high surface qualities required for lithographic sheets.  The OPTIROLL i3 system has been installed in both rolling mills to achieve the high quality and productivity required.

Model-based thickness control together with drive regulation ensures compliance with the strict thickness tolerances. Strip flatness is measured by the proven SFC flatness measuring rolls with closed surface and regulated by the flatness controls for the target specification. The newly developed ironing rollers ensure that the material is always wound without pinch marks or diminished quality.  The ‘principle of networked data’ makes it possible to retrieve rolling data at any time and at almost any location.

All important coil data from receiving a coil on the intake side to transfer on the run-out side to coil manipulators for

further processing are accurately logged and connected to those of the high bay warehouse.  The exhaust air scrubber of the AIRPURE system (for air purification of both rolling mills) is the largest scrubber ever built by Achenbach with a diameter of 6.6m.

Flow-optimised fittings and perfect fluid distribution ensure air purity even at these dimensions. For optimum rolling conditions, the rolling oil is cleaned of solid particles in SUPERSTACK filters.

Liquid contaminants such as hydraulic oils and other higher boiling-point substances, however, are separated in Achenbach’s rectification system with completely revised fluid dynamics. The most efficient components available on the market for air purification and rolling oil treatment are therefore available to Weiqiao.  Last but no least, in accordance with the current, all scrap incurred during coil preparation, pup coil handling and strip inspection is separated by Al alloys for efficient waste sorting.

After startup of litho sheet production in Weihai, the decision will soon be made about foil production. Achenbach and Weiqiao hope to continue their trustful cooperation. 

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Aluexpo 2015 Billed as ‘Eurasia’s Leading Event for the Aluminium Industry’, Aluexpo 2015 was held from 8-10 October in Istanbul, Turkey.

The event’s exhibitors included more than in Turkey, the last being held in 2013.

Based at a stand at the Istanbul 350 major aluminium industry players from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Expo Center, a senior management delegation from Qatalum networked with the Americas.

Aluexpo creates an opportunity to share fellow participants and guests, shared technological development, products and knowledge, and disseminated information services, as well as providing business about the latest developments at the development and investment in Turkey company.

At the conclusion of the Fair, Mr Khalid and Eurasia.

Exhibitors were encouraged to learn Laram, CEO of Qatalum, said: “This about the latest developments in the year’s Aluexpo was a first-rate platform industry, share their experiences, and to connect with leaders and influencers from all across the global aluminium display their products and services.

Aluminium Today 2015_11_Print 12.10.2015 13:38 Seite 1 This was the fourth such trade fair held industry. Qatalum took full advantage

of this opportunity to discuss new areas of cooperation and collaboration, to share knowledge about key trends and the main challenges in the sector, and to explore developments in best practices in processes and operations.”

Laram added: “Turkey, at the crossroads of two continents allows for events such as the Aluexpo to provide Qatalum with a platform to showcase its value-added premium products to a wide audience and enhance our brand with the made in Qatar label.” 

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Safety first

By Alex Lowery*

This is the third in a series of interviews on safety related topics with industry leaders. Svein Richard Brandtzæg joined Hydro at Karmøy in 1986. His philosophy on safety formed over the next two decades as he held various positions within Hydro’s aluminium business. In 2009, he was appointed CEO of Norsk Hydro ASA. With a strong foundation on safety, Svein Richard immediately began to make Hydro a safer company by sharing his experiences through his involvement in industry trade organisations advocated for a safer industry.

1. How are things going at Hydro?

Daily operations are going forward. I would say the basis of the company culture today is to do everything better today than it was done yesterday. The first priority in all operations is safety. So, we are always trying to improve safety day by day. Safety and operational performance are very closely connected. That’s why safety is also good for business. I think it is a very important leadership indicator. We have never had total recordable injuries as low as we have now; between 2.6 and 2.8 accidents per million work hours. We are at similar levels with contractors, because contractor safety is very importance for us.

2. How do you view safety?

Safety is value in itself. It is important to take good care of our colleagues, our workforce, and our people. Safety always comes first. We have very few accidents, but one of the key experiences I’ve learned is people want to take shortcuts to save time in an operation. And do things faster.

For us again it’s something that is against

our philosophy. We want to have full control of what we are doing. Shortcuts are something we do not accept. We are not finished because the ambition for us is to have zero accidents and we are not there yet. We still have a long way to go, to make sure we not only reduce the total recordable rate injuries, but also the high risk incidents where nothing happened.

So, I think we moved gradually from working with what has happened with accidents, towards the situation where people are more aware of what could happen in the future and analysing the risk around those operations.

3. Was there a particular incident that formed your views on safety?

I was a line manager 27 years ago at Karmøy and during that time I became head of the plant safety committee. I went around the whole smelter with inspections and audits and learned that we didn’t have a culture of safety. We agreed that if we are not improving we could have fatal accidents. Unfortunately we were right.

We had two fatal accidents. Of course this is something you never forget, but after all the analyses, we could see that each incident could have been easily avoided with the right barriers in place. For me it was very much about creating barriers against these serious accidents and also the small accidents.

4. Can you finish this sentence?

Safety is important because…

This is a value in itself to take good care of our people. We want all our employees to come back home to their families safely and to be in good shape when they are outside our plants.

5. What’s your view on the current state of environmental, health, and safety (EHS) in the global aluminium industry?

We have seen a fantastic improvement in total recordable injury rates. What is not so impressive is to see that the number of fatalities has not reduced in the same way. So our industry still has to improve

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significantly. We need engaged leaders, but also engaged employees. Everybody has to be engaged in safety.

6. How has EHS evolved overtime?

I think it has moved from looking at what has happened towards what could happen.

7. Do the EHS regulations in some countries place Hydro at a disadvantage when competing with companies from outside that country?

From my point of view, good safety performance is good business. We have the same ambition on safety whether we are in China, Germany, Brazil or Norway.

There shouldn’t be any difference in attitude. It is very much about company culture.

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A safe and successful maintenance turnaround requires months – or years – of meticulous planning. How is Hydro’s EHS personnel involved in the planning process for maintenance shutdowns.

Maintenance shutdowns involve extraordinary situations, not standard operations. Maintenance is operated in parallel with operations. That’s always creating increased risk. Work orders for us is a part of this, but a part of the work order is the safe job analyses.

Safe job analyses for us is important for creating a safe environment for the maintenance operations. I was visiting Qatalum recently and in the plant trip I always ask for the work orders to see if they really are performed and used in the right way.

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9. How does Hydro handle protecting outside contractors from hazards in your plants and let alone themselves?

We have the same ambitions on safety with our contractors as with our fully employed people. We need to have the same safety performance among our contractors as we do with our own employees. That is why we spend a lot of time on education.

In some cases we are restricted towards people coming from contractors that have repeatedly had near misses for example.

Then we do not accept them to come back again.

10. A number of years ago Hydro publicised a contractor fatality at one of your facilities on your website. What was thinking behind that action?

This was a fatality where a contractor was removing a press, and due to the weight of the press they needed some special wheels underneath to move it. So they lifted it up and to get the wheels on one side, the press became out of balance.

Everything looked fine, but suddenly the press fell over onto one of the contractors.

There were arguments about posting this incident on the website for transparency, openness, sharing the information outside the company. Trying to improve but putting a pressure on ourselves in order to make sure that this is not a situation we would like to come into. We also discussed respect for the family of the deceased. We ran this by the family before it was published.

We want to take the benefit of the flexibility of the contractors when it comes to projects and workload, but then we also have to take the consequences.

They are working for us and we have the responsibility and we want their safety performance to be as good as our own employees.

11. Can you talk about the challenges that Hydro faces when operating multiple locations?

One is the geographical challenge, but I think the cultural challenge is definitely an issue. This is something we have to live with because we cannot change the safety culture in the whole country. But, for the people working for us, it shouldn’t be any different, whether it is in Norway or other places in the world. We have to teach our up and coming leaders and the existing leaders that safety always has first priority.

If we cannot operate in a safe way, then we cannot operate.

12. Can you explain how Hydro promotes safety to your workers?

We do that in many different ways, but if

you start from employment of our workers it is about education. So it goes from the bottom to the top in our organisation.

I think people coming from outside gradually come into this in the right way and it does not take a long time for people to understand that safety is first priority in our company.

13. The use of Wise Chem is synonymous to good safety practices in our industry for preventing molten metal explosions. How does Hydro learn of new best safety practices?

We do that through the organisations where we are participating and we are participating in several organisations where safety is very high on the agenda.

Then of course exchange experiences on safety. So that is done on several levels because one thing is the interaction our managers have with other companies through the organisations where we are members.

14. How has Hydro dealt with minimising the interaction of moveable equipment and pedestrians?

We have attacked this challenge in several ways. One is to separate pedestrians from moving vehicles. That has been done over several years. We see the importance of doing even better separation but also using new technology that detects human beings around the vehicle. For example, in Paragominas, Brazil, the issue was related to people falling asleep while they were driving big trucks with bauxite. There we have tested out technology, which is looking at the eyes. If the eyes are closed a certain amount of seconds the vehicle stops.

15. In what specific areas of the company is Hydro investing to improve safety?

When you talk about investments in safety it is very much about implementing new technologies. We are investing every day in keeping up the safety level in our plants.

Investments in safety, I would say that this is an investment in our own people and that is the most important asset.

16. In terms of safety what are you most proud of within Hydro?

We have been improving safety performance over the years and I’m still not satisfied.

We should come down to a situation where we have no accidents but even at that level we will be very, very busy securing the safety performance. 

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ESTAL Congress 2015 This year’s ESTAL Congress took place on 17th – 18th September 2015 in Porto (Portugal). After Munich in 2011 and Krakow in 2013, the ESTAL Congress 2015 was again a success. Organised together with Portuguese national association APAL, the congress attracted 130 delegates from 16 countries in Porto.

By Martine Kalmar* Ten suppliers of aluminium surface treatment supported the congress organisation as sponsors and showed their products in a small exhibition hall of the hotel Porto Palacio. As in 2013, Axalta Coating Systems was the key sponsor of the event whereas CIN Industria S.A., the international paint producer based in Portugal, acted as the main sponsor.

This year the congress theme was: “Sustainable Surface treatment” and more than 20 speakers offered their insights from different perspectives on various aspects of sustainability in aluminium finishing.

Sustainability and durability The programme of presentations started with Prof. Michael Stacey of the Nottingham School of Architecture who talked about the key principles for “Durability and Sustainability of Aluminium”. He explained that studies performed by the International Aluminium Institute Research Team showed that aluminium based architecture and infrastructure is more durable than predicted, and that good workmanship in manufacture, fabrication and assembly on site as well as maintenance are key factors for the long life of aluminium buildings.

Mr Adrian Toon, President of FAECF, also addressed “Aluminium’s Sustainability and Durability” on aluminium façades in his presentation, and not only highlighted aluminium’s unique properties and the importance of the finish, but also the increasing importance of responsible sourcing of aluminium and its recycling opportunities.

Green buildings Mrs LiIiana Soares of Ecochoice Portugal who is an international assessor for ‘BREEAM, the certification scheme for

Green buildings’, first explained the environmental assessment and rating method used by BREEAM (more than 420,000 certified buildings worldwide since 1990). She also shared her experiences about best practices in sustainable buildings; mentioning, among others, building materials, responsible sourcing of materials, insulation, and designing for robustness. During the question and answer sessions, she pointed out the importance of assessing the various criteria of sustainability.

LCA and EPD Best practices in building and sustainability imply nowadays Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), which is an essential tool to have a global view of the environmental impacts of a product in its whole life cycle and the environmental product declarations (EPD).

Several suppliers of aluminium surface treatment took the challenges and offered their insights on these topics.

Mrs Maria Gorycka and Mrs Ana Martha Coutino of Akzo Nobel Powder Coatings addressed the “LCA and EPD as Objective Measurements for Sustainable Finishes”.

They explained the concept of life cycle thinking related to the latest standards and labels for sustainable coatings and showed how EPD are an essential tool to objectively measure and transparently communicate the performance of the products.

Mr Lutz Hüseman of Henkel AG & CO shared his views about “LCA Surface Treatments”, and explained how LCA can accurately identify where, when, and how environmental impacts occur throughout a product’s life.

Finally, Mr Martin Ings of Chemetall Ltd. explained in his presentation entitled “In search of blue oceans - trends and challenges in the surface finishing of

aluminium”, how today and in the future, increased awareness about environmental legislation means that the aluminium finishing industry must keep pace through investment in innovation and game changing technologies on the horizon. He highlighted some trends and challenges in the surface treatment of aluminium, with special attention to replacement of Chromium Trioxide.

Mr Brice Sottil of Coventya SAS presented the “Green alternatives to conventional surface preparation and protection”, and explained that the pre-treatment alternatives based on CRIII or Cr-free do not always meet the requirements for corrosion protection, especially for copper rich aluminium alloys. He illustrated the influence of the surface preparation and gave an overview on Coventya’s recent developments for conversion layers and sealing of anodised aluminium.

Research One of the aims of the ESTAL Congress is to inform the finishing industry about the research currently done in several universities. This year, three scientific researchers explained their current investigations.

The first presenter was Prof. Hermann Terryn of the Free University of Brussels who informed the participants about “Sustainable atmospheric plasma vs. conventional coatings on aluminium”.

Plasma exists in nature in a state similar to gas. It is chemically active as well as electrically conductive. Researches show that, for aluminium finishing, atmospheric plasma has a high deposition rate and high adherence with the substrate and the topcoat and that its barrier behaviour is stable.

The second researcher who participated in the ESTAL Congress was Dr. Mario

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Ferreira of the University of Aveiro (Portugal) who talked about “Coatings with Nanoparticles Containing Active Species for Aluminium Alloys”. Dr. Ferreira demonstrated how the encapsulation or intercalation of corrosion inhibitors in nanocontainers provides a high protection against corrosion to coatings.

Finally Prof. Arjan Mol of the Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) presented the “Recent advances in corrosion control of aerospace aluminium alloys”. Because of legislation, health safety and environmental concerns, the development of alternative surface pretreatments and chrome-free technology has been pursued for many years, but is still a major challenge for the aerospace industry. Recently, the use of lithium salts has been proposed as a potential replacement for chromate in organic

coatings. Studies conducted at the Delft University show that lithium based inhibitor technology provides significant and very promising corrosion protection under severe corrosive conditions Practical finishing challenges Two presentations focused on the daily practice in anodising plants and especially the variations or defects of anodised surfaces.

Mr Tom Hauge of Hydro (Norway) addressed the “Production parameters’ influence on the quality of colour anodised profiles”, and the main reasons for colour shade and gloss variations after anodising. He explained how the chemical composition, the homogenising parameters, the preheating of billets, the extrusion incl. cooling intensity, the ageing of profiles, as well as the various steps of the anodising process can impact the final results, as has been confirmed by tests performed on specific alloys at Hydro in Norway.

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remedy. The database, which is integrated in the website of QUALANOD, displays numerous defect pictures that allow users to search by selecting pictures and getting information on the defect shown.

Another presentation given by Mr Christian Leroy of European Aluminium on “Sustainability assessment of PVC, wood and aluminium windows and curtain walls”, presented the results of a survey commissioned by European Aluminium to assess and compare the various materials used in window and curtain wall framing materials. Mr Leroy explained that, from a building sustainability perspective, the optimisation of the contribution of windows and curtain walls to the energy performance of the building appears more essential than selecting a specific framing material based on predefined sustainability criteria.

Market outlook Congress participants also had the opportunity to hear about “Recent trends of aluminium surface treatments in Japan and the Far East”, in a presentation given by Mr Satoru Kikuchi of AlumiSurface Technologies (Japan) about the development of the Japanese finishing market and the significant influence of the Chinese market.

Mr Charlie Durant of CRU Group (UK) shared his views about the “Aluminium semis market outlook”. He explained that there are growth opportunities for the extrusion market; however, huge risks may come from the Chinese construction sector. Rolled products demand will grow thanks to the increasing wealth in emerging nations and the requirement for vehicle lightweight in the USA and the EU. It is assumed that China will export more aluminium as smelting and fabrication companies struggle with overcapacity and slowing demand.

Innovation The ESTAL congress was also used as a platform to inform surface finishers about innovations in their industry.

Mr Edwin Büchter of Clean-Lasersysteme (Germany) presented “Cleaning with light, a sustainable surface preparation of aluminium”. He explained how laser pre-treatment process leaves the metallic surface free of contamination and well prepared for bonding, thus improving the corrosion behaviour of light alloys.

Dr. Hermann Urlberger of AHC Oberflächentechnik (Germany) offered information about “Lasox-Coat or laser anodisation of aluminium surfaces”, which means a selective coating/oxidation of aluminium surfaces via laser, without any chemicals or liquids. Laser coating offers many coating possibilities, including

complex forms or patterns, as wells as work on flat and round surfaces and is best for wear protection.

Associations’ activities Part of the ESTAL congress was also devoted to give information on the activities of ESTAL and other associations.

Mr Simon Meirsschaut, ESTAL Technical Coordinator, gave an overview on the “Challenges of European legislation for aluminium surface treatments” and explained the lobbying activities undertaken by ESTAL in the past months.

Taking the REACH legislation and the discussion on chromium compounds, the upcoming legislation on nanomaterials as well as the Construction Product Regulations as examples, he explained the challenges encountered not only by the aluminium finishers, but also by aluminium manufacturers and suppliers of surface treatments.

In the context of lobbying activities, Dr. Veronique Steukers of the Nickel Institute in Brussels was invited to inform the participants about “REACH and Nickel compounds”. She explained how the Nickel Institute, under the threat of having nickel compounds included in the REACH candidate list, chose to cooperate and coordinate efforts with downstream users and with stakeholders and battled to have nickel compounds subject to workplace legislation rather than REACH legislation.

Finally Mr Michiel Koot, ESTAL Director, gave his “Report about the activities undertaken by ESTAL” in the past two years and announced that the General Assembly of ESTAL had decided, in order to better serve the finishing plants in the various European countries, to join a larger organisation to offer more benefits and more information to ESTAL members.

The day before, the General Assembly decided that ESTAL should join forces with the European Aluminium Association and would apply to become a member of European Aluminium from 1st Jan 2016.

A clear congress highlight was that many questions were raised by the audience after each presentation, giving voice to differing opinions and controversial issues. Delegates were very positive about the topics addressed and the various presentations delivered during the two days.

Last but not least, the social programme offered many opportunities to network with national and international colleagues, but also to visit Porto’s interesting places like the Casa da Musica designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, the Porto wine cellar at Taylors and the former Customs House (Alfandega) on the bank of the Douro River where the Gala dinner took place.  Aluminium International Today

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ALU SOLUTIONS

WORKING TOGETHER TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

10-11 May 2016, ADNEC, Abu Dhabi The global forum on sustainability in the aluminium industry

WHAT IS ALUSOLUTIONS? AluSolutions is a freeto-attend international exhibition and conference addressing the challenges and opportunities of sustainable aluminium use.

AluSolutions will demonstrate how the industry is making continuous improvements in the environmental efficiency of producing aluminium, as well as its sustainability benefits in end-use applications.

Maintaining a sustainable aluminium industry While the primary process of aluminium production is energy-intensive, the industry has recently been promoting aluminium’s use-phase benefits as outweighing these environmental disadvantages.

Alongside this ‘new look’ for aluminium, recent environmental legislations mean that the primary industry is monitoring the impacts of bauxite mining, how it reduces emissions, saves energy and affects the local environment.

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While further downstream, as the demand for aluminium grows, rolling companies, extrusion companies and casthouses are recycling aluminium to use it over and over again in a closed loop system.

The sustainability benefits of aluminium also continue into the end-use phase. In automotive and aerospace applications for example, lightweight technology has lead to a reduction in C02 emissions, while packaging made from increasing amounts of recycled aluminium is driving a closedloop circular economy.

AluSolutions will explore technology and challenges in the following areas: • Reducing energy and greenhouse gases • Waste management • Biodiversity and land management • Resource efficiency and recycling • Scrap recovery • Aluminium end-use environmental benefits • Diversification of downstream

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Find out more by contacting our team: Sales Ken Clark Sales Director Tel: +44 (0)1737 855117 Email: kenclark@quartzltd.com Anne Considine Area Sales Manager Tel: +44 (0)1737 855139 Email: anneconsidine@quartzltd.com Conference & editorial Nadine Firth Editor, Aluminium International Today Tel: +44 (0)1737 855115 Email: nadinefirth@quartzltd.com General enquiries Esme Horn Coordinator Tel: +44 (0)1737 855136 Email: esmehorn@quartzltd.com

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WHO WILL ATTEND?

WHY ABU DHABI? The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the world’s fourth largest aluminium producer, accounting for more than 50% of the Gulf’s aluminium production.

While the primary aluminium sector across the Gulf is growing year on year, significant focus is also being paid to the downstream products and services sector.

The region is known for its high quality aluminium and the plants are modern, with environmental protection regarded to be amongst the most advanced in the world.

The volume of aluminium production in the Gulf region is expected to increase to five million tonnes by the end of 2015, which accounts for 17.5% of the total global output, compared with 3.7 million tonnes in 2012 or 11% of the total world production.

Abu Dhabi is an international business hub and visitors will be able to explore all the area has to offer, as well as taking time to visit the local industry.

Aluminium industry professionals and decision-makers from around the world will attend this event to participate in the conference as delegates and attend the exhibition to source new solutions and network with existing suppliers. Visitors will be decision makers from across the aluminium value chain including: • • • • • • • • • •

Presidents / owners Technical / production directors Factory managers Plant engineers Technicians / engineers Production / R&D / test & inspection personnel Education & training personnel Consultants / researchers Sales & marketing managers Health, safety and environment personnel

CONFERENCE The conference theme will be

“The Sustainability Story” It will provide a platform to discuss the sustainability challenges faced when manufacturing and processing aluminium, as well as a look at the environmental benefits of end-use aluminium products.

The conference will include papers/case studies on: • • • • • • • • • •

ustainable mining solutions S Primary aluminium production Emissions reduction Energy saving Recycling aluminium Achieving a closed loop Life cycle assessment Plant case studies Sorting and collecting aluminium Environmental benefits of end-use aluminium

The conference will run alongside the exhibition and is free to attend for all visitors to the show. If you would like to present a paper please contact: Nadine Firth Tel: +44 (0)1737 855115 Email: nadinefirth@quartzltd.com

FEBRUARY 14-18 DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE MUSIC CITY CENTER

Visit the TMS website this month to register for the TMS 2016 Annual Meeting & Exhibition, reserve your place at special events, and view a listing of professional development opportunities to be held in conjunction with the conference.

More than 4,000 attendees from around the world gather for the annual meeting of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society each year. Plan to join them at TMS2016!

Connecting the Global Minerals, Metals, and Materials Community.

For the most convenient access to TMS2016 technical sessions, the exhibit hall, committee meetings, and social and networking events, book a room at the Omni Nashville Hotel, located adjacent to the Music City Center convention space in Downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

TMS has also reserved discounted rooms at six additional hotels in the Downtown Nashville area. Book through the TMS2016 website to receive discounted attendee room rates at any of these hotels.*

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* Please note that onPeak (formerly Travel Planners) is the official housing provider of TMS and is the only organization that can offer the special room rates negotiated for meeting attendees. Please disregard messages from any other housing provider claiming to represent TMS.

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