Eight Continuous Annealing and Pre-Treatment lines in operation

In the last few years Tenova experienced a boom of sales in continuous annealing and surface heat treatment lines (so called cash lines) from noted aluminum producers to cover automotive, aircraft, architectural and various others market demands.Among the 10 continuous annealing lines sold by Tenova in the last few years, 8 of them are now under production, while the remaining 2 are in the erection phase. Commissioning of these last two lines is foreseen to be on 2016.With this article Tenova would like to show this booming of orders showing the overall installed technological equipment and the results of operation of these lines. The results are given to show the continuous improvements of its own technology taking into consideration the development of new equipment able to reduce maintenance downtimes and loss of production.

Keywords:

Continuous Annealing , Floating Process , Pre-Treatment , Strip handling , Passivation