Eneas Project
Equipment for A2011 alloy extruded bars production
This Project evaluates upstream integration viability by including in current processes the manufacturing of AA2011 alloy extruded bars with 15 to 29 mm diameter. Until then these bars were raw material bought from outside.
This entailed to carry out in a new Plant, first the melting, casting, homogenate and comprehensive inspection of AA2011 alloy 8” diameter “billets” and next extrusion operations, wire-drawing, straightening and cut of the bars. Annual capacity would be around 2000 T.
According to this premise we have carried out Plant Engineering by means of a detailed “lay out” with innovative equipment by means of which, and by an automatic process, billets were casted, homogenized and 100% ultrasonically inspected. Whereupon, billets were stored in an automatic silo from which they were extracted, cut and automatically extruded and tempered by water dip treatment at press exit.
