Within the construction of their aluminium smelter of 322,000 t/year at Fjardaal in Iceland, Alcoa awarded Fives Solios (3) contracts:
Two Gas Treatment Centers fitted with Yprios, the optimum solution for lower potroom emissions, which consists in a double suction system on pots during maintenance operations
Four holding furnaces of 100 t capacity each, electrically heated, with a single lift cylinder with on board siphon system.
A Bath Processing Plant
Fives Solios 's latest technologies were chosen to ensure compliance with the very high environmental standards in Iceland.
Due to high cost of construction manpower in Iceland, Fives Solios has optimized the shop fabrication and pre-assembly in order to reduce the construction activities on site: some modules weighed 300 t while measuring up to 24 m in height...
The execution of this new and challenging project, demonstrated not only the mastery of the design and installation of large-sized equipment, but also Fives Solios' ability to adapt to extreme conditions.
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