Oct 5 2004
Hydro has strengthened its leading position in the global market for premium aluminium foil following the successful modernization of one of its production facilities at the Rolled Products plant in Grevenbroich, Germany.
Hydro invested approximately EUR 35 million in the three-year-long project.
"As a preferred partner in particular to the packaging industry, we now are fit to meet the further growth of this industry," says sector president Svein Richard Brandtzaeg.
The modernized facility, known as the main line at the Grevenbroich plant, has doubled its productivity and therefore can compensate for the omission of several, technically outdated facilities built in the 1960s. The revamp has included several major innovations, including the world's first equipment of foil mills in three-phase AC drive technology as well as separators with servo-driven cutting tools.
Further, the rewinder for the doubling machine - for the first time - features a pinch roll with a double-acting diaphragm cylinder in order to control the tension at the rewinder.
The new rolling facility was inaugurated on October 3. "All those involved can be proud, because they mastered this large-scale project within the given time and cost, while maintaining operations without reducing our shipment volumes," says Hendrik Brenig, who heads the sector's Foil business unit.
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