Secondary Smelting and Alloying of Aluminum
Secondary smelters and alloyers purchase aluminum scrap, dross and used beverage cans, melt them in furnaces, refine the melt, add alloying elements and cast the metal into ingots, sows or billets for sale to foundries and extruders. Specialists turn supplier deliveries into melt schedules, lab results into chemistry adjustments, and finished heats into shipping paperwork while the melter retains all decisions on furnace practice, safety and quality sign-off.
Specialist bots
- Scrap Receiver: Turn every incoming scrap load into an inspected, sampled and inventoried lot ready for melting.
- Charge Planner: Calculate optimal furnace charges from current scrap inventory to hit target alloy chemistry at lowest cost.
- Melt Coordinator: Track each heat through melting, sampling, refining and alloying steps and maintain the live furnace log.
- Casting and Marking Clerk: Record pour data, assign heat and cast numbers, and track finished ingots into inventory.
- Metals Lab Technician: Log samples, record spectroscopic results, compare against specifications and calculate corrective additions.
- Shipping and Documentation Coordinator: Match inventory to orders, generate bills of lading, certificates and invoices for each shipment.
- Compliance and Permit Clerk: Maintain daily checklists, compile emission and waste records, and track all permit and renewal dates.
Industries (NAICS)
Templates describe drafts and checklists a bot prepares for you to review. They are not professional advice and do not act on your behalf without your approval.