Luxembourg – Hydro has officially unveiled an extensive Euro 15 million upgrade to its aluminium recycling plant at Clervaux in Luxembourg. The event was attended by Prince Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
The Clervaux plant will now be in a position to: take in more post-consumed aluminium scrap; increase annual output to more than 100 000 tonnes; and lower energy consumption. ‘The investment means increased and improved recycling capacity so that we can save more post-consumed scrap and get it back into the loop again,’ comments Hydro’s head of primary metal Hilde Merete Aasheim.
Its decoating technology and ‘new way of submerging the 6060 shredded alloys’ make the plant ‘a pioneer in the aluminium remelting business’, according to Hydro. The two original melting furnaces have been replaced by a single new melting furnace of a design also used at Deeside in Wales, Azuqueca in Spain, and Henderson and Commerce in the USA.
One of the casting furnaces has been converted into a second melting furnace. Both furnaces will feed into the other casting furnace, the capacity of which has been increased.
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