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Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. serves customers in industrial, technology and energy markets worldwide with a unique portfolio of atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, performance materials and equipment and services. Air Products is a leader in providing products and solutions for all phases of aluminum production and recycling, including oxygen-enhanced combustion systems, degassing, molten metal blanketing, extrusion die cooling, annealing and on-site gas generation.

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
Marie D. Kistler, Marketing Manager
7201 Hamilton Blvd.
Allentown, PA 18195
Telephone: 1-800-654-4567, code 732
Inquiries: gigmrktg@airproducts.com

Al Solutions is located in New Cumberland, West Virginia, and sells recoverable titanium and zirconium additions to primary and secondary aluminum smelters.

ALTEK-MDY, L.L.C. is a technology-based company with expertise and experience in aluminum dross and scrap processing systems. ALTEK-MDY's engineers use the latest 3D design/modeling software to design, build, and install dross processing equipment, electromagnetic pumping systems, containers for handling dross and salt cake, melting and holding furnaces and furnace tending vehicles.

Basic Resources, Inc. supplies a variety of cover flux and blended fine chemicals to the primary and secondary recyclers in the aluminum industry.

Bloom Engineering Company Inc. is a combustion oriented company that supplies combustion equipment and related engineering services to the aluminum industry.  They utilize their vast application experience and tailored flame characteristics to provide combustion solutions for the aluminum industry. Their burners and controls are engineered to optimize furnace efficiency and product quality. Additionally, Bloom burners and controls are designed to provide low NOx emissions along with maximizing efficiency based on each customer's application. Bloom offers many advantages including the ability to provide a flame to suit the application, ability to provide spark ignition, low noise burners, and excellent support and customer satisfaction. Bloom provides rugged burner construction to minimize maintenance costs. Repair, maintenance, burner upgrade and equipment remanufacture services are also offered by Bloom's shop insures original quality and lower overall costs while increasing craft labor availability at the customer's plant. Bloom can provide qualified personnel to adjust combustion systems for optimum performance, maximum efficiency and lowest emissions as well as combustion schools, seminars, training courses and energy audits.

Cattron Group International is a leading global manufacturer of Industrial Radio Remote Control systems for Electric Overhead Traveling bridge cranes, Smelter Crustbreakers, yard locomotives, material handling equipment, mining machinery, mobile equipment, shiploaders; virtually any industrial equipment where the operator can be moved to a safer, more efficient location for operation.

Cattron Group International
58 West Shenango Street
Sharpsville, PA 16150 USA
Telephone: (724) 962-3571
Fax: (724) 962-4310
Inquires: mail@cattrongroup.com

Gamma-Tech LLC has been providing new technology to the recycling industry that reports the composite elemental analysis of a mixture of non-homogeneous recycled metals on a real-time basis to near spectrographic accuracy. This allows recyclers to monitor and control the chemistry of the products they are processing and ultimately to report this analysis of the recycled metals to their consumers. Their focus has been on ferrous metals. They recently installed their first analyzer for recycled aluminum.

Gillespie & Powers, Inc.  supplies and maintains melting furnaces, decoating machines, and other cast house equipment.

Hauck Manufacturing Company provides burners, blowers and combustion controls to the aluminum industry.

Secat, Inc., is a metallurgical research laboratory specializing in aluminum technology. We assist companies with materials testing, failure analysis, alloy development, and the enhancement of processes & properties. Secat also provides services related to new product development, energy assessment, and marketing and business analysis. The expertise of industry consultants and the national laboratories are available to supplement Secat's onsite capabilities.

Secat, Inc.
Contact: Denis Ray, President and CEO
Telephone: (859) 514-4989, ext. 101
Inquires: mail@dray@secat.net

Seco/Warwick Corp. provides heat processing systems worldwide for primary and secondary aluminum producers including heat treatment systems for coil, foil, rod and ingot processing, solution heat treat & aging, and reverb melting & holding furnaces.

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