Melting furnaces

The automotive design engineers are looking to reduce car weights by some 50% weight over the next decade. Aluminum castings shall be one of the main contributors towards this goal. In the aluminum casting foundry, various types of furnaces are used for the supply of sand, gravity or low/high pressure castings. These furnace can vary in size from 50 kg capacities and in some cases larger furnaces are used. Oil, gas and electric furnaces are used starting with the small crucible melting holding units through to very large non-crucible well reverberatory furnaces.