The Teksid group has ordered an automated ladle tracking system from SinterCast. Under the terms of the agreement, the SinterCast Ladle Tracker® will be installed at the Teksid foundry in Monclova, Mexico. The installation will be commissioned during the autumn of 2022.

Building on the current CGI production in Monclova, the Teksid and SinterCast engineers developed a bespoke Ladle Tracking solution to suit the layout, process flow and production demands in Monclova. The system comprises six tracking locations within the process flow – including furnace tapping, two wire feeding treatment stations, two temperature control stations and automated ladle pouring – plus a seventh tracking location in the ladle relining area. The system will monitor and control the production of both CGI and grey iron to ensure that every ladle successfully passes every step of the production process and to provide Industry 4.0 traceability of the liquid metal process.

The seventh tracking location in the ladle relining area will quantitatively measure the age of each ladle lining in terms of days, hot metal cycles and the accumulated time of exposure to liquid iron to optimize the scheduling and cost-effectiveness of ladle maintenance and re-lining.