Pyrotek Sales and Engineering Services working with a furnace operator at PUNCH Powerglide in France.
As manufacturers have had to reduce the number of in-house technical staff members they employ, they have grown increasingly more reliant on Pyrotek and other vendors for engineering and technical expertise.
For decades, Pyrotek has been delving deep into aluminium operation processes, helping operations achieve the maximum return on their investments. With dedicated engineering groups in North America, Europe, China and Australia, each serves the needs of customers globally, whether they are buying Pyrotek’s manufactured products or not.
The teams, made up of roughly a dozen staff members each, include electrical and mechanical engineers and designers. Some teams have specialists in automotive engineering, machining, tooling, advanced materials, refractories and more.
Pyrotek facility in Blansko, Czech Republic.
“Pyrotek’s engineering team in Blansko, Czech Republic, regularly offers engineering services such as designing, calculations, manufacturing and installation, including commissioning as a whole package,” says Jiří Nečas, Production Manager for Pyrotek at Blansko. “This is primarily for launder lines, heated lids, filter boxes, foundry furnaces, degassing units, pre-heating systems, manufacturing of zinc recovery systems—and it’s done in cooperation with Pyrotek specialists for electromagnetic pump systems and others.”
Pyrotek engineering is becoming more skilled and experienced each year and is focusing on more complex systems and solutions. The engineering teams are growing the breadth of their services and field experience to take on new challenges in the future.
“We’re rapidly growing our experience in market segments like foundry furnaces and degassing units, as well as others,” Nečas says.
Launder line design and manufacturing area at Blansko facility.
Through Pyrotek’s 60-plus years of service in the aluminium industry, its engineering teams have accumulated considerable experience in high-temperature manufacturing environments.
“To provide engineering support, it is first key that we fully understand customer problems,” says Mike Tomassi, Chief Engineer for Pyrotek’s engineering group in Cortland, New York, USA. “This is why it’s critical to go into the plants, observe operations and see each customer’s pain, asking questions along the way until we can fully understand how we can best bring value.”
“Our engineers visit customer plants to determine the needs and problems that can be improved with Pyrotek solutions,” says Samuel Rodriguez, Engineering Coordinator for Pyrotek in Apodaca, Mexico. “We most frequently offer technical support for aluminium, foundry and glass bottle manufacturers.”
Pyrotek Engineering Services routinely provides on-site measurements.
The team in Mexico, like others at Pyrotek, routinely provides on-site measurements to ensure correct design of customer process layouts.
“We participate in customer process and product development, we profile different configurations for thermal insulation solutions, measure temperature throughout a production process to detect heat leaks, hot and cold spots, and analyze temperature homogeneity and record thermal cycles using thermocouples and data loggers,” Rodriguez says.
Pyrotek has helped many customers lower their overall product costs by reducing energy consumption, minimizing melt loss, reducing downtime and optimizing their new or existing thermal systems. That’s just part of Pyrotek engineering centers and sales teams working with aluminium operations to determine the best solutions to meet their needs.
“Our teams are ready to support customers with any challenges, so they can focus on what they’re experts at—processing and casting aluminium,” Tomassi says.
Pyrotek heated launder section.
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Tags: Aluminium, Engineering Services, Europe, Foundry, Mexico, North America.