Month: December 2024

The first hot billet was heated at Mäkelä in Finland. The newly developed inline EHKO (electrically resistance heated high convection oven) plays a key role in Mäkelä's decarbonization plans. The concept combines two electric heating methods. The decisive factor is the extremely high overall efficiency of the system, which is achieved by base heating with heating elements and final taper heating with induction. As the new equipment will be replacing an old gas heater, Mäkelä will save 960 tons of CO2 per year.

The new Indian representative Mehul visited extrutec's headquarters at Lake Constance this week. Mehul and his company Stevag have been representing extrutec on the Indian market since October this year. The aim of the cooperation is to provide extrutec's new and existing customers with more personal on-site support to ensure a long-term partnership.

Changbao Steel is well known for its seamless extruded stainless steel pipes. The company invested in a completely new extrusion line for the production of these tubes.

After 8 months of intensive cooperation between extrutec and Changbao, the production acceptance took place at the extrutec group subsidiary TCT Induktionstechnik in Menden. A total of 32 customised induction furnaces were manufactured for the process-accurate heating of high-alloy stainless steels for various material dimensions with an installed system output of approx. 9 MW. In addition to the induction furnaces, this complex project also included various auxiliary equipment, switchgear and other system components. The equipment will be commissioned by extrutec in early 2025.

Frequent visits to our customers are an important part of the day-to-day business of the extrutec aftersales department. Personal discussions provide valuable feedback that helps us to further improve our aftersales service and the overall performance of our equipment. A visit to our Turkish customers took place as planned. One of the companies visited was Asen metal, where an extrutec heating system is in operation together with a profile cooling system. The aftersales department provides lifetime support for existing extrutec equipment and also advises our customers on frequent upgrade projects.