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"Australia’s largest extruder and distributor of aluminium products, Capral
Aluminium, has secured up to $3.45 million from the Australian Renewable Energy
Agency (Arena) to replace a 40 year-old gas-fired furnace with a fully electric
furnace system.
The gas-fired aluminium log furnace is located at Capral’s Bremer Park
extrusion facility in Queensland, which recently celebrated its 20th
anniversary and is the largest aluminium extrusion plant in the Southern
Hemisphere.
Bremer Park has also begun transforming into a hub for sustainable aluminium
extrusion, with Capral successfully trialling several processes designed to
incorporate recycled content in its products and demonstrate the viability of
closed-loop recycling.
The new funding from Arena makes up half the $6.91 million needed to replace
the 40 year-old gas-fired furnace with a fully electric furnace system, which
Capral hopes will improve energy efficiency, reduce emissions, and strengthen
its operational performance.
A new electrically heated convection furnace will be installed, supported by
induction heating technology and waste heat reticulation, and will increase
energy efficiency from approximately 20 per cent to over 90 per cent.
The electric upgrade is expected to reduce Capral’s Scope 1 emissions by around
973 tonnes of CO₂-equivalent a year, which is around 9 per cent of the
company’s total Scope 1 emissions."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
