Induction Heating producing Aluminum

Barmet Aluminum Corporation produces 300 million lbs. of aluminum sheet per year and has plants located in
Uhrichville, Ohio and Carson City, California. At the plants, scrap and ingots are melted in gas-fired reverberatory
furnaces and the molten aluminum adjusted for chemistry in reverberatory holding furnaces.
The molten aluminum is poured into a Hazelett twin-belt caster to produce a continuous strip.
The strip is fed directly into a hot-strip mill and then into a cold mill where it is reduced to sheetgauges. The coiled sheet product is then batch annealed in electric resistance heated furnaces. After annealing the product is tension
levelled and shipped to customers.