For 25 years Spooner has been supporting ElvalHalcor’s aluminium processing business, ensuring their canstock material’s quality is never compromised.
Spooner were first approached by ElvalHalcor back in 1997 for an indirectly heated clean Airfloat Oven and an Air Cooler for paint and lacquer coating on aluminium strip. Then in 2001, due to expansion within the business, Spooner were approached again to upgrade the oven and cooler, all to support the lacquer coating on aluminium strip for canstock production.
For over 84 years ElvalHalcor has been offering aluminium products and solutions for dynamically growing markets with a strong focus in sustainable operation and growth – an ethos like that of Spooner.
Keeping it clean and efficient
As demand for more sustainable and clean air business processes took hold of industrial facilities, Spooner started to design and manufacture a range of oxidisers and energy recovery systems to support this working with Anguil Environmental Systems as their European partner. Through strong relationships with existing customers and utilising in-house process & engineering experts, Spooner has been able to provide energy efficient equipment, in accordance with the latest updated BAT (Best Available Techniques), which supports clean air regulations and decarbonisation.
In 2013, Spooner designed, manufactured and installed a new Regenerative Thermal Oxidiser (RTO) for ElvalHalcor, replacing the existing non-Spooner recuperative oxidiser treating the emissions from the Spooner oven. The project also included a multi-unit Heat Recovery System. The feedback from ElvalHalcor was extremely positive, particularly due to the energy savings they were experiencing.
ElvalHalcor’s fuel saving expectations were 33-35%. However, the Spooner RTO exceeded this with a 40% energy saving, further cementing the strong relationship between ElvalHalcor and Spooner.
Rising to the challenge
With this strong relationship, in 2017 Spooner were challenged to provide a solution to a highly demanding heating and cooling requirement on ElvalHalcor’s chemical coating line. We rose to that challenge, adding high performance thermal equipment, achieving the required higher peak metal temperatures (PMTs) and in turn, improving quality and meeting the latest technical and regulatory requirements.
Optimised emissions & heat recovery solutions
More recently, Spooner were excited to be manufacturing one of their largest ever three-canister RTOs for ElvalHalcor. As part of a significant expansion project in response to increased market demand, the RTO will eliminate the emissions from a new lacquering line. On completion, this 115,000 Nm³/h capacity RTO unit will include secondary and tertiary heat recovery.
The secondary heat recovery is a 2-stage system, designed to recover as much energy as possible and provide a unique indirect heating system for the 70m Spooner Airfloat Lacquer Oven also supplied as part of the project, with the possibility of zero gas consumption (thus leading to minimum carbon footprint) when the solvent load from the coating head is capable of self-sustaining the system. The tertiary air-to-water heat recovery reduces heat requirements for other areas of the line. Spooner Passivation Dryers and multiple Air Coolers completed the line-up of Spooner equipment for this significant investment.
Spooner is committed to supporting our customers to provide sustainable solutions for the beverage and food packaging markets.
ElvalHalcor appreciate the accuracy and efficiency of Spooner equipment and we share the same sustainable and environmental philosophy. This coupled with our unrivalled equipment performance, is why our customer relationships last.
For details on our Environment equipment such as industrial oxidisers and heat recovery solutions, get in touch with Lois Scott at lscott@spooner.co.uk or call +44 (0)1943 609 505.
