Elkem ASA

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About Elkem Foundry Products

Elkem is the world’s largest supplier of ferrosilicon-based special alloys. Its customers for ferrosilicon include iron foundries and steel mills worldwide. The car industry, line pipe manufacturers and other mechanical engineering companies are also important customer categories, and applications for the company’s products include complex foundry goods such as engine blocks and manifolds. Ferrosilicon from Elkem is used by the steel industry to produce carbon and stainless grades.

Over the last few years Elkem has systematically expanded its foundry product portfolio, enabling us to provide a package of specialised products and services which will assist in providing solutions to many of the challenges encountered by our customers.

In addition to our traditional range of high quality inoculants, nodularisers and charge materials, backed by our local teams of trained sales personnel, we are now able to provide to ferrous and non-ferrous foundries

• design software and foundry process control systems as a result of our technology partnership with the leading software company Pico
• other speciality charge materials for foundry metallurgy which enable our customers to reduce their supplier base.

All of the above will continue to be supported by our global group of highly skilled foundry experts (Technical Customer Service) whose prime role is to render the advice and technical service which will lead to providing solutions to your challenges through partnership with Elkem.

Elkem Foundry Products' production plants

    •Elkem Bjølvefossen
    •Elkem Bremanger
    •Elkem Chicoutimi
    •Elkem Foundry China
    •Elkem Iceland

Elkem Foundry Technology Products R&D
Elkem Foundry Technology (EFT) Products R&D is a team of highly competent foundry metallurgists and researchers working in mainly three areas:

• Product Development and R&D
• Technical Market Support
• Plant Support

The EFT Products team is located in Elkem’s Research and Development Centre in Kristiansand, Norway.  This is probably the best equipped metallurgical centre in the industry.  The centre has a state of the art metallurgical and chemical laboratory with optical microscope with automatic image analyzing equipment, Scanning Electron Microscope with EDX analysis unit, chemical analyses equipment like X-Ray Fluorescence, Atomic absorption Spectrometry, ICP,  Leco etc.   For product development purposes  the centre has several induction furnaces with melting capacity from 30 to 1200 kg of cast iron, sand mixer for production of moulding sand and several patterns for production of trial moulds.  The tundish cover process is used for iron ductile iron treatment with treatments up to 300 kg.

In addition to R&D and product development the EFT Products team’s main focus is on technical documentation and technical training and support to Elkem’s sales force and production

Your Technology Partner
Elkem Foundry Products produces top quality nodularisers and inoculants on three continents to provide local, rapid and effective solutions for your metal treatment requirements. Flexibility in production and the ability to adapt to our customers needs, means that Elkem can manufacture what is best suited to your casting conditions. 


Products & markets - Our product range consists of:

• Elkem speciality Nodularisers
• Elkem Preconditioner
• Elkem speciality Inoculants
• Cored wire
• Elkem FerroSilicon to Steel
• Elkem Recarburisers
• Elkem Speciality Alloys/Charge Material

Product specifications
English

•    MgFeSi Alloys Preconditioner, Inoculants, Inserts
•    Ferrosilicon, Recarburisers, Mould Powder

German

•    FeSiMg-Vorlegierungen & Impflegierungen
•    Ferrosilicium & Aufkohlungsmittel

Russian

•    MgFeSi Alloys & Preconditioner, Inoculants, Inserts
•    Ferrosilicon, Recarburisers, Mould Powder

Turkish

•    Döküm Fabrikaları için Elkem Ürünleri
•    Demir Esaslı Döküm Fabrikaları için Elkem Ürünleri

More Products:


•    Preconditioner
•    Inoculants
•    Cored wire
•    Ferrosilicon to steel
•    Recarburisers
•    Charge materials



Quality & safety:

Important message regarding Materials Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) and Product Safety Information (PSI)

In light of the implementation of the globally harmonised system for classification and labelling of chemicals (UN-GHS), the term MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) is no longer used and has been substituted by SDS (Safety Data Sheet). According to REACH article 31(1), SDS is only required for hazard-classified substances. Since none of the products of Elkem Foundry are or contains substances that are hazard classified, SDS for these products is not legally required.


For more information on this issue, kindly refer to the UK REACH Competent Authority Information Leaflet Number 13 – REACH and Safety Data Sheets
Since our customers request health and safety information, Elkem will continue to provide HSE information on the various sales products on a voluntary basis. This Product Safety Information (PSI) contains the same information as given in authentic SDS, but compliance with REACH and CLP is not mandatory. Consequently, (M)SDS for most products are no longer maintained and are replaced by PSI.


Product Safety Information

Elkem inoculants, inserts and preconditioner


Elkem Grain Refiner™: United Kingdom, Norway
Recarburisers
Elgraph® Premium: 
Denmark, EU/GHS, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden
Elgraph® Superior:
Denmark, EU/GHS, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden
Pipe Dressing - Mould powders
Pipeinoc® : United Kingdom, France, Italy, Norway

Other products

Si/FeSi slag: United Kingdom, Spain, Norway
FeSi ovoids/briquettes:  United Kingdom, Germany
Alinoc®, Barinoc®, Foundrisil®, Reseed®,SMZ®, Superseed®,Superseed® Extra, Ultraseed®,Vaxon®, Zircinoc® inoculants, Elcast® inserts, Preseed™ preconditioner:
English, German, French, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

Elkem MgFeSi alloys
Elmag®, Lamet®, Remag® nodularisers, CompactMag™ alloy:
English, German, French, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
Elkem FeSi alloys
FeSi75, FeSi90 and others:
English, German, French, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
Grain Refiner




 

Sales offices	General product inquiries		Certifications
Africa	Sales and marketing to steel		Elkem Bjølvefossen
Asia	Sales and marketing to foundry		ISO 9001   ISO 14001
Europe			Elkem Bremanger
North America	Production plants		ISO 9001   ISO 14001   ISO/TS 16949
South America			Elkem Chicoutimi
Oceania			ISO 9001   ISO 14001
			Elkem Foundry China
			ISO 9001   OHSAS 18001
			Elkem Iceland
			ISO 9001   ISO/TS 16949
			Elkem Tana
			ISO 9001
			Europe Sales
			ISO 9001-2008 (Child cert.)   ISO 9001-2008 (Main cert.)