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Trends in Secondary Aluminum Casthouses
Traditionally, primary casthouses solidified the molten primary aluminum from the potlines into ingot or sow, or produced primary alloy ingots, billets or slabs. Secondary casthouses served to convert scrap into secondary aluminum ingots, billets, or slabs. Today, the global trend to sustainability, circular economy - and therefore maximizing recycling and minimizing carbon footprint, has led to almost every casthouse needing to integrate scrap into its production mix. Secondary casthouses no longer solely produce higher impurity secondary alloys, but also high-quality ingots, billets and…
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