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Nippon Light Metal to Start Thin Board Continuity Casting Equipment "FREX Caster"
Nippon Light Metal starts the commercial production by thin board continuity casting equipment "the FREX caster" from September. It is the stage that is shipping as a sample by taking a quality check of a customer for every alloy now. The firm will build up to sale of the high definition and quantity added value product that employed the characteristic of the "FREX caster" efficiently, and will advance the market cultivation for cars. The FREX caster is thin board continuity casting equipment which utilized the technology of an Alcan Aluminium International and which does not have an example globally. The amount of capital investment is 3 billion yen, and it can manufacture the difficult alloy that is not made by casting, and can aim at application to high Magnesium and Ferrous system alloy material.
First of all in the company, supply is started by for automobile heat exchange products by the commercial production start from September. From now on, the firm will aim to sale for the foil that could not be made by daicast or the automobile structure material, etc.
In addition, the hot rolling and the cold-rolling capability in Nagoya works improves by the "FREX caster" introduction in the Kanbara works. From such a thing, the aluminum board production volume in Nagoya works in 2006 fiscal year increase to 10,000 tonnes per month from present about 8,000 tonnes.
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