Heavy industry, precisely instrumented
From a PLC-automated cast house to a 10,500-tonne extrusion press and furnaces recorded to a tenth of a degree — this is the machinery behind every delivery promise we make.
Cast House
Metal quality is decided before the first pass
Our cast house runs on the proprietary CASTRIGHT II™ automation system — a PLC-controlled, premium-accuracy billet and ingot casting platform — paired with LARS™, an in-line liquid aluminium refining system that purifies the melt through high-energy diffusion and chemically driven mass transfer.
The result: billets and slabs with the internal cleanliness that extrusion dies, anodizers and aerospace auditors all demand — repeatably, heat after heat.
- 4 melting furnaces of 66 metric tonnes each
- 2 fully automated casting lines
- 2 continuous homogenising furnaces
- 4 batch furnaces and 2 coolers
| Format | Sizes |
|---|---|
| Billets (12 standard diameters) | 178 · 254 · 304 · 381 · 446 · 581 · 660 · 762 · 816 · 914 · 995 · 1060 mm (7″ to 41.7″ — other sizes to customer requirement) |
| Slabs | 420 and 520 mm thick · 1620 mm wide · length as required |
Extrusion Lines
Press force from 1,000 to 10,500 tonnes
A graduated press line-up means small architectural profiles and massive industrial sections each run on the machine sized for them — not squeezed onto whatever is free.
| Press class | Equipment | Stretcher capacity |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 – 2,000 t | 1000T/1100UST and 1800 t four-pillar hydraulic presses; 2000T/2100UST press | Profiles Ø 90 – 120 mm |
| 2,500 – 3,600 t | 3600 t four-pillar hydraulic extrusion system | Profiles Ø 127 – 254 mm |
| 7,500 – 10,500 t | 7500 t, 8500 t and 10,500 t hydraulic presses for heavy profile extrusion | Profiles Ø 450 – 558 mm |
Every line feeds a 26 × 6 m automatic cooling and conveying table with in-line straightening.
Heat Treatment
Furnaces that keep records like a laboratory
Solution and ageing treatment for extruded profiles of 4 – 6 m, in furnaces instrumented to aerospace expectations.
Class 1 temperature control
Class 1 thermocouples (±1.5 °C) with AMS-dedicated sensors at ±1.1 °C, and ±2 °C temperature uniformity across the working zone.
Full digital traceability
Siemens and Allen-Bradley PLC recorders with certified thermocouple modules — every cycle archived from 0.1 °C resolution at 1-second intervals.
T77-capable ageing
Multi-stage, multi-ramp ageing furnaces with ±10% airflow uniformity and cold-air injection for low-temperature steps — repeatable by design.
Finishing
Straight, cut and ready for the next machine
Stretching & straightening
Dedicated straightening machines for solid bars, square, rectangular and hollow profiles — with the number of straightening rolls and planes matched to each section geometry for optimum results.
Precision cutting
Automatic single-head profile cutting (OMRM 125 AL) with a Ø 450 mm diamond saw, cutting at any angle from 0° to 180° — clean ends, exact lengths, no rework.
Rolled products are produced within a three-site European rolling network (Slovenia · Croatia · Serbia) — see the rolling programme.
Put This Plant to Work
Your drawing, our press schedule
Send a profile drawing or a billet specification — our engineers will confirm feasibility, tooling and a delivery date.