Wellman Rotary Wheel and Band Aluminum Strip Caster: MC-493

Description

Manufacture:
- Wellman
- New = 1990
- Decommissioned = August 2025
- Status = off foundation, in storage, ready for immediate shipping

Casting Type:
- Steel casting belt around a copper vertical wheel
- "Wheel-and-Band Caster"
- Typical for casting 240mm x 22mm slab for impact extrusion slug stock

Production:
- Produced aluminum strip - 1xxx and 3xxx series alloys

Casting Speed:
- Nominal = 9.7 mpm (31.8 fpm)
- Corresponding to a casting output of approximately 7.5 mtons/hr

Caster Items:
- Robust frame housing
- Wheel bearing assembly
- Deflector roll system for the steel belts
- Drive unit
- Four way (4) deflection roll design
- Steel belt cooling system (equipped with a total of 6 independently adjustable cooling zones)
- Casting wheel cooling system (completely redesigned and refurbished 2023) (features 3 independently adjustable cooling zones)
- Drive: 2.2 kW

Wheels:
- Diameter = 1400mm (55.12")
- Two copper alloy wheels are included (1 used, 1new)
- Cavity dimension for these wheels is 240mm x 22mm.
- Steel belt deflector rolls = one spare set included
- Tundish = not included (but we can supply a new one at additional cost)

Sold "as is, where is" FCA