Gautschi Batch Homogenizing Facility for Dubal, UAE

23 March 2006

MAERZ-Gautschi Industrieofenanlagen GmbH, based in Switzerland, supplier of Cast House Equipment and Heat Treatment Furnaces for the Aluminium Industry, recently obtained an order from Dubai Aluminium Company Ltd., Dubai/United Arab Emirates.

For a new Batch Homogenizing Facility Dubal has ordered supply and installation of

- two Natural Gas fired 60-tons Furnaces for billets of several diameters up to 8m length,
- two Cooling Chambers,
- one Transfer Car.

The units are specially designed for shortest heating-up and cooling-down times
and will be run in full automatic mode.

The production start-up is scheduled in December this year.