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Sanshin Sanwa Aluminium Recovery System
Boosts Molten Metal Manufacturer’s
Recovery Yields by 50%
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Aluminium alloy melting and production processes generate a by-product called aluminium dross,
which is a mixture of entrapped aluminium metal, aluminium oxide and impurities. Depending on
the raw material and melting process, dross can contain 30%-70% of aluminium metal or more.
Collecting the metal from dross is a key challenge and a necessary step to save resources, reduce
costs and improve a firm’s financial standing. The most common Aluminium Recovery Systems, or in
other words ways to process the dross, are by dross press, rotary furnace and the growing method
of thermite-reaction and centrifugal force utilisation + agitation. This last method is catching up fast with molten metal manufacturers.
Major aluminium molten metal manufacturer HOEI Shokai in Aichi, Japan was looking to improve its
treatment process of aluminium dross. As of April 2014,Hoei’s consolidated sales were approximately
36.5 billion yen with molten metal sales volume at 8,000 MT per month. For optimized dross
treatment, the newest model of Sanshin’s High-Speed Dross Processing Plant has been installed in
Hoei’s Hekinan factory, which is Hoei’s base factory for molten aluminium production.
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Photo #1: Hot dross processing in operation Photo #2: Recovered aluminium alloy metal
Originally, all hot dross processing was outsourced, but in order to cut costs, Hoei started manually
processing dross from 2006. Manual dross processing is a burden on the workers, and from an
environmental perspective leads to airborne dust. To mitigate these issues, Hoei installed its own
company-developed aluminium dross processing machine from 2008.
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After these methods were found to be inefficient, Sanshin Industry’s dross processing system was
installed in Hekinan’s factory. The system installed was the Automatic High-Speed Aluminium Dross
Processing Plant, Model 350, making the aluminium dross’ treatment process completely
automatic. Its processing capability is over 90% (of available metal within dross) in 5 minutes, which
far exceeds any other method in the market, including dross press and traditional methods of pit
or rotary furnace. From an environmental standpoint, the plant controls dust diffusion by at least
80% while also requiring minimal electrical power usage.
Hoei Shokai doubled recovery yields to 40-50%, amounting to 40-60 tons per month. Compared to
manual dross processing, monthly costs decreased by 5million JPY and compared to Hoei’s
company-developed dross processing machine, monthly costs decreased by 3 million JPY after
installing Sanshin’s plant.
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The second Sanshin plant will be installed in Hoei’s headquarters factory between March and
April 2015 in order to enhance factory’s environment conditions and production efficiency.
Sanshin Sanwa Group’s hot dross processing aluminium recovery system (SSG ARS) is a
Japanese-developed and manufactured hot dross processing technology for aluminium
melting operations. Since its development in the late 1970s, Sanshin Sanwa Group has been
continually improving the ARS to perfection for its users in a country with marginal natural
resources and stringent environmental regulations. The Sanshin ARS holds several utility model
patents in both Japan and China. Over 400 system sets, translating to an over 80% market
share, have been commissioned in Japan alone.
(By Michie Rushlander, Manager, International Sales Team, ARS — Hot Dross Processing Aluminium Recovery SanshinSanwa Group)
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