2000 TMS Annual Meeting: Exhibitor

S C H A R F W E S T F A L I A

The SWS Scharf Westfalia GmbH (SWS) was established in 1972, emerged from the former Gewerkschaft Eisenhütte Westfalia, later Westfalia Lünen and finally Westfalia Becorit.

Since 1995 SWS is fully owned by Deutsche Bergbau - Technik GmbH (German mining-technology) (DBT). DBT is a 100 % subsidiary of RAG Ruhr Kohle AG.

The company is located in Germany in the cities of Lünen, head office (North Rhine Westphalia) and Uelzen (Lower Saxony)

Scharf Westfalia designs, develops, manufactures, and supplies turn key plants and systems as well as components for the Aluminium Industry.

The Aluminium division is responsible, amongst others, for state-of-the-art turn key Anode Rodding Shops, Anode Handling and Storage, as well Butt and Bath Treatment Plants for the Aluminium Industry.

The following systems are presenting our main product line, which are turn key plants, as well as individual equipments, for:

• Anode Rodding Shops
• Cleaning and handling of bath and butt material
• Baked and green anode handling and storage systems
• Cooling tunnel for anode butts and bath material
• Crucible cleaning
• Fully automated transport system for green and baked anodes
• Anode traverse beam for the handling of anodes in the electrolyte cell