ROD AND BAR PLANT FOR BRASS AND COPPER (8190)

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Lockwood & Co are pleased to offer for sale one of the world's premier factories for the production of brass and copper rod, bar, shapes, hollows, bus bar and anode ball. The plant is being offered in its entirety or in major sections only and is not for sale on an individual machine basis. It can be seen in operation through to the end of 2005. The Consolidated Extrusions Pty. Ltd. plant was constructed in 1990 as a combination of three other plants. In addition a large amount of new equipment was added at this time. The plant has a capability of over 30,000 tons per annum and produces an exceptionally wide range of solid and hollow copper and copper alloy product such as :

• Round, hexagon and octagon bars from 3.2 mm to 100 mm (1/8"-4")
• Flats from 6.35 to 152.3 ( 1/4"-6") x thickness from 1.6mm (.063")
• Hollows to 100mm (4") ID
• Copper bus bars from 12.7 X 3.2 to 200 x 12 mm (5"x 1/8" to 8"x 4-3/4")
• Near net shape extrusions in copper and brass
• Wire from 1.45mm (0.057") to 10mm (0.40) dia. in straight length & coil
• Straight length welding wires from 1.6mm to 6.4mm (.063"-0.25") dia.
• Seamless brass box sections
• Standard angles and channels from 12.7mm (5")
• Shaped brass extrusions for structural and decorative architectural purposes.

The plant is located in Australia, approximately 45 minutes drive from Sydney Airport and is currently in full operation.

The plant is a fully integrated facility, comprising the following areas and major plant items:

Melting and casting

• Two 2.5m W coreless melting furnaces & one 1m W channel melting furnace
• Two twin strand horizontal continuous casting machines for billet & log
• Twin strand semi-continuous caster
• Swarf drier and scrap sorting and handling equipment
• Baghouse for fume control from each furnace

Extrusion

• Three direct extrusion presses with piercers producing straight lengths and coils including:
• 3000 Ton UBE Oil Hydraulic Press with 593 ton piercer, Junker Gas-fired billet furnace (all new in 1984), straight runout w/walking beam cooling table for straight lengths and dual coilers for rod coils, new PLC controls added in 2001, double saw cutoff system added in 2004.
• 2050 Ton Schloemann Oil Hydraulic Press with 315 ton piercer, Granco Gas- fired billet furnace, straight runout with walking beam cooling table for straight lengths & dual coilers for rod coils, new PLC controls added in 1989, new discard system added in 1997.
• 1600 Ton Schloemann Oil Hydraulic Press with 245 Ton piercer, Junker induction billet furnace, automated log feeder with Oliver billet saw added in 1996.

Small rod area

• Fully automatic coil pickling system
• Five Schumag combined drawing lines for production of straight length rounds, hexagons and squares to a maximum size of 29mm
• All lines feature in line cut to length and chamfering allowing direct on line packing of product

Large rod area

• Rod pickling plant complete with electrolytic copper recovery cell.
• Three drawbenches complete with push pointing
• Kieserling automated straightening center comprising bundle loader, NC controlled two roll reeler and cut to length & chamfering system
• Other straightening and sawing plant
• Bogie hearth annealing furnace

Copper bus bar area

• Large bar roller pointer
• Automated processing center comprising drawbench, straightener and cut to length equipment.
• Coil fed drawbench with die head shear for small bars
• Copper flats pancake coiler

Flats processing

• Automated stretching and cut to length line for small flats

Wire area

• Triple draw, three head Koch draw block
• Two spinner type draw blocks
• Four vertical draw blocks
• RWF two stand wire flattening line complete with level winder
• Bogie hearth annealing furnace

Welding wire area

• Wire pickle area
• Breakdown block
• Showa triple block
• Finishing block
• Bogie hearth annealing furnace
• Six straighten & cut lines w/two including in-line draw blocks.

Section production area

• 75 Ton, 40 ton, 25 ton and 8 ton hydraulic stretch straighteners
• Three Seifer profile correction machines
• Two automated shorts cutting saws.
• Drawbench for box section production
• Behringer band saw for bundling cutting of sections
• Finishing machine for flats

Die design and manufacture area - features

• Die design via Autocad and .... CNC interface
• Five high output CNC wire cut machines
• CNC Carbon electrode cutter
• Six die sinkers
• Two Okuma CNC lathes
• Two Okuma CNC machining centers
• Fluidized bed heat treatment facility
• ExtrudeHone die polishing machines

Warehouse area

• High bay cantilever racking system
• Three narrow aisle four directional forklifts

Laboratory area (Third party accredited)

• One XRF Spectrograph for metal analysis
• One ICP Spectrometer
• Physical testing equipment including hardness and tensile testing equipment

Maintenance and spare parts area

• Lathes, mills, welding equipment, press & normal maintenance equipment
• Comprehensive maintenance store

Tooling

• Die library of extrusion, drawing, straightening & section correction tooling covering over 4000 individual products.

For Further Details Please Contact:

Mr. Tom Lockwood - Managing Director, Lockwood & Co Pty Ltd

Tel: 61 3 9338 2778

Mobile: 61 419 310 852

Email: toml@lockwoodcompany.com.au