Extrusion Billet Sawing and Packaging Systems

Fully automated or semi-automated material handling for extrusion billets for internal or external supplyAdvanced Dynamics provides its customers with the worlds most automated and productive aluminium extrusion billet sawing and packaging systems. Our solutions can be either automatic or semi-automatic and will package the billets and logs for internal use or to supply your customer. The billets and logs are typically prepared to industrial shipping standards but, we can design the packaging line to meet your specific needs.

These systems are tailored to suit customer production requirements and include:

• High speed and robust roller conveyors
• High capacity accumulation conveyors
• Smooth and quiet 90 degree pick and place transfer devices
• High speed circular saws or band saws
• Length gauge stops with integrated programmable pin marking systems
• Automatic Billets stacking machines
• Automatic Billet Strapping machines using steel or plastic strapping and having the capability to insert woodrunners
• Package weighing
• Saw chip collection
• Saw chip briquetting
• Ultrasonic Inspection Stations
• Level 0 and 1 instrumentation and control systems with option Level 2 SCADA

Slab and T-Ingot Sawing Systems

Robust systems for receiving Ingots from vertical casting machine and then cutting them and packing them for downstream processing.

For the handling and high speed cutting, marking, and packaging of Slabs, T-Bars, and plates, Advanced Dynamics provides complete automated systems.

These systems are designed for the specific handling of vertically direct chill (VDC) cast ingots. The equipment is ultra heavy duty to assure reliability and high uptime in the face of the heavy loads and occasional operator abuse. Systems include:

• Ingot downenders
• Roller Conveyors
• Squaring devices
• High Speed Circular or Band Sawing Machines
• Fully integrated weigh stations
• Automatic pin marking, ink jet marking and labelling systems
• Automatic stacking, strapping and packing per customer requirements
• Automatic ultrasonic inspection

Melt Furnace Charging and Tending Machines

Rail bound aluminium scrap furnace charge car and furnace tending machines.

For both upgrades of existing casthouses and for new cast houses, Advanced Dynamics designs and builds rail bound scrap furnace charging machines and furnace tending machines. Benefits associated with such charging and tending systems include increased throughput, reduction of damage to the furnace linings, ability to use a greater percentage of scrap, reduction of gas usage, and increased operator safety.

Sow Casting Systems

Advanced Dynamics designs and builds a full range of sow casting systems from 5 to 40 tonne per hour in both air cooled and water cooled versions. These systems can be very basic and used as a back-up to other more sophisticated casting machines or they can be fully automated with a marking and packing line and used as mission critical processing lines.

Our systems include:

• Gantry style cranes for crucible transportation
• Crucible tilter stations
• Robotic or dedicated skimming stations
• Sow mould train or turntable style
• Sow moulds
• Vacuum de-moulding/ sow extraction machines
• Secondary water cooling
• Sow weighing and marking stations
• Sow stacking
• Sow accumulation conveyors

Custom Heavy Handling and Packaging Systems

Advanced Dynamics can custom engineer machines of all types for automatic or semi-automatic material handling operations Examples of such machines are:

• Ultra heavy duty roller and chain type conveyors
• Bridge cranes, Gantry Cranes, ASRS Cranes
• Rail Bound transfer cars – optional battery operation and wireless control
• Robotic pick and place (up to 1000 kg payloads)
• Industrial Weighing, marking, labelling

Anode Handling and Cleaning Systems

Material handling systems for carbon anodes for global supply to smelters.

At the heart of every modern smelter carbon operation is the anode handling and cleaning system. This system ties together the Green Anode Plant, the Bake Furnace, the rodding shop and provides green and baked anode storage to buffer the different processing speeds of each of the carbon plant’s processes. Advanced Dynamics experience in the provision of these systems to the world’s largest and most automated carbon plants makes us the ideal supply partner. These systems need to be rugged for the harsh environment and at the same time, need to manage the flow of anodes in such a way as to optimize the processing off all the key anode forming, baking and rodding operations.

Our systems include the following state of the art equipment and systems:

• Heavy Duty Roller Conveyors
• Upenders and down enders
• Elevators
• Baked anode separators (for the case where anodes get fused together during the baking process) > Anode Cleaning Machines c/w stub hole cleaning and machining-
• Dust and Packing coke collection and recovery including dilute phase and dense phase conveyance.
• Core Drill (sampling) Stations for taking samples for quality verification
• Anode inspection stations
• Anode Storage and retrieval cranes
• Anode Management systems including plant wide SCADA

Bake Furnace Maintenance

As an accessory to Advanced Dynamics world leading anode handling and cleaning systems, we offer all the required anode bake furnace maintenance tools including:

• Furnace wall building machine
• Furnace wall removal / tear out grabs (under the hook)
• Wall straightener
• Flue Wall Brushing Machine
• Anode Grabs
• Spreader Bars for handling and storing replacement flue walls
• Flue wall maintenance platforms – elevator type