With demand for components increasing, and a busy R&D department working on new lightweight parts for automotive, they needed additional dosing capabilities that don’t take up too much space. Westomat Duo provided the perfect answer. A super ‘space-to-benefit ratio’ too good to resist. The Handtmann light metal casting division produces high quality magnesium and aluminum castings for leading automotive…

Aluminium parts produced by VOIT Automotive are used by over 45 brands in over 250 different models. The company is serious about die casting high-quality components that make vehicles lighter on the road and greener to produce. Which is exactly why their newest melting furnace is from StrikoWestofen. Read on to learn more! Team Klaus Deckarm and Petra Berwanger, responsible for the company's energy and…

It’s also on a mission to only produce castings for emission-free applications, in a climate-neutral environment, by 2040. So having a melting furnace with “the power of eternal youth when it comes to energy efficiency” is a massive help. Read on to find out more! Twenty years of trusted melting performance. WEBER RODING produces over 2 million aluminum components for the automotive industry every year.…

Melting up to 4000 tons of aluminium per month to produce parts ranging from engine and gearbox supports, suspension components and electronic covers, to headlight and thermostat housings, FÉMALK needs its melting and dosing furnaces to operate with high levels of energy efficiency. Even after years of service. To see where potential savings and sustainability gains could be achieved through equipment…

Handtmann Group’s light metal casting division has ordered its fourth Westomat Duo dosing furnace for its Annaberg site in Germany. With five StrikoMelter melting furnaces, fifteen Westomat Classic and three Westomat Duo dosing furnaces already in operation at the facility and another one to be installed, Annaberg’s new line – its 22nd – will produce battery compartment parts for electric vehicles. A…

Auto Heinen GmbH, based in Bad Münstereifel, Germany, has been a StrikoWestofen customer for almost 40 years. The expert in special alloy die-cast parts currently operates 15 Westomat dosing furnaces and 2 StrikoMelter melting furnaces to process around 4 t/hour in peak operation. Last year StrikoWestofen’s latest innovation, the Westomat Plus+, became a new addition to Auto Heinen’s impressive production…

The automotive parts specialist, which also has locations in Italy and the US, has adopted Monitizer® | REFILL MONITOR from StrikoWestofen to optimize metal supply for its dosing furnaces. Developed by StrikoWestofen in partnership with Norican’s in-house Digital Lab, the solution uses sensor data to continuously check furnace fill levels against the metal consumption of the die casting process. It then…

Based in Holzminden, Lower Saxony, Germany, the Schlicht Druckguss die casting plant sees Italpresse Gauss die casting machines handle around 1,700 tonnes of aluminium every year, all fed with liquid metal from its melting plants. “Our Westomat dosing furnace works extremely hard feeding our busy production lines – having to replace their linings at some point is inevitable”, said Mr. Hans Jürgen Kubiak,…

Metal loss and excessive energy consumption are two of the biggest threats to aluminium die casting profitability. Depending on aluminium grade, a metal loss of just 1% of an annual melting output of 5,000 tonnes could equate to an average financial loss of 70,000 EUR, while around 25% of the total cost of die cast parts is associated with energy consumption. Both are common issues that can be readily…

It does this with the help of a fully automated die casting cell with a clamping force of 3200 tons. Around 150 tons of aluminium a year are processed here – in small batches that's up to 3000 parts. When the company purchased a new melting furnace for this die casting cell in 2019, improved energy efficiency and increased melting capacity were at the top of the list. Until then, a natural gas-fired furnace…