METALS | APPLICATION REPORT


HEAVY METAL


Metal production is a core industry and a hard one: temperatures are extreme, loads are heavy and hot or else difficult and hard to handle. Julian Champkin reports.


metal is moved at height in open vessels, then poured, still red-hot, into casting moulds. Heat and dust, dangerous loads and continuous production demands are inherent to the process.


M


aking metal is challenging. Ores and scrap must be heated to high temperatures; molten


Before you even reach that foundry stage you have to get the raw materials into the furnace; and after it you have to transport and warehouse your finished product. All of this demands specialised lifting equipment – sometimes very specialised equipment indeed. We can start at the beginning of the production process, with scrap metal and ore.


Mining the ore of course is a process in


itself with its own specialised equipment which we shall not deal with here. But scrap metal is another primary ingredient in steel-making; and lifting and moving it is surprisingly hard. Scrap-handling is made complex by


the random and unsorted nature and size of the load. It can arrive at the mill


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