ANDRITZ Inc
5405 Windward Parkway, , Suite 100W, Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

ANDRITZ Metals Inc. is the home of Bricmont aluminum and steel furnaces as well as HiTEQ foundry and die casting plant furnaces and launder systems. ANDRITZ Metals Inc. (previously ANDRITZ Bricmont Inc.) is a specialist in furnaces for the steel and aluminum industries as well as in galvanizing systems. The US company engineers and constructs furnaces for reheating and melting in batch and continuous operation.

The company was founded in 1966 and provides complete solutions to its clients’ needs. From initial engineering studies and analyses, through project management, construction, and commissioning, to training the operators, ANDRITZ Metals Inc. covers all aspects of designing and building many types of industrial equipment.

The ANDRITZ Metals Inc. vision emphasizes quality as the cornerstone of creating value, thus benefiting customers and employees.

As a member of the ANDRITZ GROUP, ANDRITZ Metals Inc. complements the Group’s portfolio with its Bricmont and HiTEQ lines. ANDRITZ Metals Inc. provides the local connection in North America for all of the ANDRITZ Metals strategic business areas' equipment, and the project management, engineering and service organization participates in all deliveries within North America.

Products for the iron and steel industry

Pusher furnaces
Heat treatment furnaces
Roller hearths (tunnel furnaces)
Continuous strip processing
Walking hearth furnaces
Walking beam furnaces
Rotary hearth furnaces
Batch furnaces
Soaking pits
Products for the aluminum industry
Large round-top melters (tiltable or static)
Large rectangular melters (tiltable or static)
Large-capacity tilting holder furnaces
Alloying holders
Twin-chamber furnaces for recycling
Pusher furnaces
Soaking pits
Annealers
Rotary hearths
Batch log treatment
Vertical quench design
Roller hearths
Strip floating lines
HiTEQ line of furnaces for the foundry and die casting industry
Customized solutions

Training services

Studies and analyses
Environmental services
Controls and automation
Field services
Spare parts
Glass industry services
ANDRITZ Metals Inc. engineers and designers apply their knowledge, skills, and experience wherever industrial heat transfer or automation is involved.

Whether in the ferrous and non-ferrous metals industries, or in other sectors such as glass, ANDRITZ Metals Inc. – Bricmont Aluminum, Bricmont steel or HiTEQ foundry and die casting equipment make a major contribution to our client's overall productivity and cost-effective operation.

Customer benefits

Broad range of products with state-of-the-art technology
Customized solutions for the layout, manufacture, and supply of turnkey furnace systems, based on long-term experience and continuous developments
Optimization and modernization of existing furnace plants to increase capacity and reduce energy consumption
Close cooperation and long-lasting business relations with customers

ANDRITZ service experts work together with customers to maximize the availability of their plants and lift the overall production efficiency of their operations.

With the goal of maintaining high availability while keeping life-cycle costs to a minimum, ANDRITZ provides technical support, on-site services, spare parts, wear components, and specialized diagnostic tools for all its production systems. These capabilities are found within a single organization to ensure minimal interfaces and maximum productivity.

Our services help achieve the highest equipment availability and optimum performance over the entire life-cycle of our products.

In addition to traditional maintenance, repair, troubleshooting, and spare parts, ANDRITZ specialists are available to inspect, audit, and recommend process improvements and upgrade opportunities. Specialized services for rebuilding and rehabilitating equipment extend and expand the economic return on asset investments.

Technical and operational support is available 24/7, often utilizing remote diagnostic tools to speed up response time and minimize travel costs.

ANDRITZ METALS Life Cycle Service

We understand service as an inseparable link in the long-term partnership with you – our esteemed customer. ANDRITZ METALS Life Cycle Service is a dedicated partner to support your production success during the life cycle of our products.

Each customer is unique and so is our life cycle service support and assistance. We provide expertise for all spare parts, maintenance, retrofits, and upgrade needs. Our wide and longstanding knowledge and proven concepts combined with ANDRITZ METALS technology provide the basis of our support to meet customers’ production targets and to achieve maximum mill utilization and efficiency.

Operational services

OEM parts
Spare and wear parts
Engineered/know-how parts
Plant and equipment upgrades
Equipment and system upgrades
Rebuilds, revamps, and retrofits
Automation and process upgrades, and improvements (e.g. ECOmode for HCl Regeneration Plants)
SV services and quality control
Maintenance and operation services
Field services, optimization, training
Process performance and improvement studies
Maintenance contracts and studies
Condition and process monitoring
Online diagnostics and process monitoriing - Acoustic Emission (AE) based
Improvement of processes and product quality
Prevention of unplanned down-times
Improvement of spare-part stock holding