Precious Metals Casting Lines
Horizontal Continuous Casting lines for huge amounts of silver and silver-alloys
Horizontal Continuous Casting lines for huge amounts of silver and silver-alloys
Product Information
WERTLI’s Horizontal continuous casting lines for silver and silver-alloys is designed for precious metals such as strips, rods, tubes and wires which are used in important applications for casting materials for the silver semi-finished product industry, for the electronic industry, for the minting industry, for the making of LMBA standard bars and ingots, for the cutlery and tableware industry and for the jewellery trade, in:
- Pure silver Ag999 and Ag9999
- Sterlingsilver Ag925Cu
- Silver alloys Ag900Cu to Ag300Cu
- Brazing alloys AgCu and AgZnCu and others
- Contact alloys AgCd and others
The equipment design of this category of casters is very different and largely governed by your needs. The strand dimensions range up to 550 mm strip width and 150 mm bar or tube diameter. Special care is given to the furnace technology. The holding furnaces are equipped with induction heated crucibles – one of WERTLI’s own special designs. Many of these plants are used to melt and cast in the same furnace. Most of these casters are equipped with strand extraction machines with high precision drives with PC CAST 3000 TS control system with data printing, remote servicing link, travelling shears or travelling band saws. Strip casters are often equipped with in-line surface milling machines, travelling shears and up-coilers.
| Profile/Format | Maximum size Maximum diameter | Number of strands |
|---|---|---|
| Strips | 200-550 mm | 2-1 |
| Thickness | 12-22 mm | |
| Bars | Ø 25-150 mm | 4-1 |
| Tubes/Hollows | Ø 25-100 mm | 4-1 |
| Wires | Ø 25-100 mm | 6-4 |
| Strips/Slabs | □ 40x40 mm - 110x100 mm | 2-1 |
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