New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Limited,
Tiwai Point, Invercargill, New Zealand
Metal Products - Metal Yard ~1994
Department: Metal Products MRU (Cast house)
Using foundry & remelt ingot casting lines and Wagstaff VDC billet casting machines Metal Products casts liquid metal from the pot lines into saleable products and despatches them worldwide.
Specialist – Process Improvement Engineer - 1993 - 1995
Lead the dross project
Major Projects/Achievements
Development Engineer – Technical Group - 1991 - 1992
I worked on a wide variety of tasks during this period, including furnace alloying and dross reduction.
During this period NZAS adopted team working.
Using foundry & remelt ingot casting lines and Wagstaff VDC billet casting machines Metal Products casts liquid metal from the pot lines into saleable products and despatches them worldwide.
Specialist – Process Improvement Engineer - 1993 - 1995
Lead the dross project
Major Projects/Achievements
- Performed trials that demonstrated a potential saving of $NZ 1.5M / year through syphoning.
- At the time of my departure, Comalco Smelting was moving to adopt syphon technology.
Development Engineer – Technical Group - 1991 - 1992
I worked on a wide variety of tasks during this period, including furnace alloying and dross reduction.
During this period NZAS adopted team working.