Jilin Liyuan has successfully put the 100-MN extrusion press from SMS Meer into operation

4th March 2014

Jilin Liyuan Aluminium Company in Liaoyuan, Jilin Province, China, has commissioned a 100-MN front-loading extrusion press supplied by SMS Meer www.sms-meer.com  Germany. With this press, the Chinese company is expanding its product portfolio in the market for very large aluminum profiles.

With a maximum billet charge weight of 1,500 kilograms, Jilin Liyuan can produce, for example, profiles for railway construction and shipbuilding with the 100-MN press – and that with profile widths of up to 700 millimeters. Jilin Liyuan has also ordered a 160-MN front-loading press, a 60-MN direct and a 36-MN direct / indirect tube press from SMS Meer. SMS Meer GmbH is a company of the SMS group which, under the roof of the SMS Holding GmbH, consists of a group of global players in machinery and plant construction in steel and nonferrous metals processing. Its workforce of more than 13,500 employees generates sales worldwide totaling EUR 3.3 billion.


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