Rochester Aluminum starts new furnace

Sep 17, 2012 | 02:15 PM | Daniel Fitzgerald

Tags  Rochester Aluminum Smelting, aluminum deox, Jerry Golden, Rochester deox, Daniel Fitzgerald

NEW YORK — Rochester Aluminum Smelting Canada Ltd. has installed a new furnace with a capacity of 100,000 pounds at its facility in Concord, Ontario as it looks to keep pace with a "very competitive" deox market.

Rochester started up the reverberatory sidewell melter Sept. 1, allowing it to idle two 50,000-pound-capacity furnaces at the site, president Jerry Golden told AMM.....





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