SAPA Profiles UK has implemented AMETEK Land’s new SPOT AL EQS (SPOT Aluminium Extrusion, Quench and Strip) pyrometers at its aluminium extrusion plant in Tibshelf, Derbyshire, United Kingdom and is reaping major efficiencies and performance benefits by accurately measuring temperature of low and variable emissivity aluminium.

This innovative new SPOT AL EQS pyrometer from AMETEK Land, the leading industrial non-contact temperature measurement specialist, provides high accuracy and a three-in-one capability for aluminium applications, including extrusion press exit, extrusion press quench zone and strip mills.
 
With SAPA Profiles UK, the world’s leading producer of aluminium extrusions, supplying a large proportion of its products to the highly controlled automotive, marine and construction industries, the aluminium it processes needs to be cooled at an exact quenching rate to achieve the highest quality metallurgical properties.  If this is achieved, it gives greater confidence that the extruded profiles will meet the required structural properties in subsequent testing. In the past, SAPA Profiles UK found it challenging to measure the lower end of the temperature range and sometimes had two separate thermometers to cover the wide spectrum.  The advantage of SPOT AL EQS is that it covers temperatures from 200 to 700 °C / 392 to 1292 °F within one highly effective instrument.