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刊名：The Refractories Engineer

ISSN：1362-4547

出版年：2010-01-05

卷：2010

期：may

起页：11

止页：11

分类号：TQ175.7

语种：英文

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The Portland smelter in Victoria, Australia operated by Alcoa has been a key customer for Pyrotek over many years. Portland itself is a very picturesque, rural fishing port town on the southern coast of Australia, 365 km west of Melbourne and 1235 km southwest of Sydney. The 1.2 billion USD dollars smelter commenced operations in 1986 with a nameplate capacity of 345,000 t/yr from two potlines, employing Alcoa A817 pots to produce remelt ingot through three ingot chains in the facility's casthouse. Due to the financial constraints resulting from the prevailing global economic situation, Portland, like many other international smelters has curtailed 15% of its production within the last year, and this currently remains offline. In addition, within the last year the smelter stopped producing alloy remelt ingot and now only produces purity metal. Consequently, more attention has been placed on procurement in the carbon bake and potline areas.