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Precision and efficiency are top priorities for Alcutec GmbH. To this end the aluminium milling specialists have installed a RUF briquetting system which presses the aluminium chips produced during production into compact briquettes. The briquetting process reduces the volume of the chips markedly and in addition clinging cooling lubricant is recovered. The result is that the production waste is much easier to handle and achieves higher prices when sold than loose aluminium chips.

During the production of round bars or rods for flags, skewers and many more products made from wooden planks, lots of wood chips are accumulated. Instead of disposing of them as waste, the wood processor Ortinger presses them into briquettes, which they then sell as fuel. This way they can economically support themselves in another way and their RUF briquetting press has started to pay itself off from the first day on.

The production of aluminium pressing bushes designed for the reliable sealing of pipe unions involves cutting operations that waste nearly 80% of the raw material. As a measure to maximise the yield of this valuable material, the pipe specialist Uponor has been running RUF briquetting systems in its production since 2005. According to WCO Local Coordinator Gerart Oppelt, this investment had paid off after just nine months.

With the introduction of a RUF briquetting press Keiels Formenbau GmbH have simplified their working processes substantially, as well as massively reducing their costs. The briquetting system can press 50 kg per hour of Aluminium chips, which are produced during milling, into solid briquettes. When compared to the sale of loose, wet chips the company has doubled its revenues through selling Aluminium briquettes. In real terms this is a return on investment in about a year.

One of RUF´s heavy duty briquetting systems is contributing enormously to efficient work processes at SWG Metallverarbeitung und Montagetechnik GmbH. The press reduces the volume of chips to almost a tenth of the original volume as well as recovering valuable cooling lubricant and is not knocked out of its stride by even the coarsest particles which can be found between the chips. In the meantime almost one million aluminium briquettes have been pressed by the RUF press at SWG.

By pressing loose chips of stainless steel into briquettes, EZ Zerspanung GmbH was able to lower its costs for cutting oils significantly and reduce environmental impact. Through the process of briquetting the turning parts expert can retrieve about 80 percent of the cutting oil adhering to the chips. This saving is the main reason why the RUF-briquetting press amortised itself within less than three years.