Licences Held

Andritz Selas

Major is licensed by Andritz Selas to build specialised thermal processing equipment. Andritz Selas is part of the Andritz Group of companies and provides state-of-the-art furnaces of different sizes for continuous strip processing lines. Whether for carbon steel, stainless steel or silicon steel, suitable thermal processing equipment is available.

Furnaces for Carbon Steel Strip Lines

• Continuous annealing line furnaces
• Continuous galvanizing line furnaces
• Muffle type furnaces for bright annealing

Furnaces for Aluminuium and Brass strip

• Continuous annealing
• Preheating

Furnaces for Stainless Steel Strip Lines

• Continuous annealing line furnaces

Roll Heat Treatment Glass Bending Equipment Steel Rod, Tube & Pipe

• Continuous annealing
• Continuous heat treatment

Burner Equipment

• PreMix Radiant Gas Burners
• ‘Qualorimeter’ gas blending equipment for blending several fuel gas streams to give constant calorific supply

Major has built Andritz Selas strip line equipment for Bluescope Steel at their Port Kembla, Western Port, New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand plants. Major has also supplied the recently developed Rapid Jet Cooling systems to enhance the cooling efficiency in the after-pot cooling section of modern coating lines in Australia, New Zealand and China.

Braun Maschinenfabrik

Major is licensed by Braun Maschinenfabrik of Austria to represent their Steel Cutting & Grinding Machines Division in the Australian and New Zealand markets.

Founded in 1848, Braun have been active in the field of abrasive cutting and grinding technologies since 1965.

Braun have supplied their state-of-the-art cutting and grinding facilities to well-known companies all over the world. Major’s position is enhanced by the association with Braun and brings specialised technology into the options available for our customers.

Product Range

• Abrasive cut-off machines for cold and hot cutting applications in the steel industry.
• High-pressure surface grinding machines for cast, forged and rolled steel products
• Associated material handling equipment and automation systems.

Rio Tinto Alcan

(formerly Comalco Aluminum)

Major jointly developed the Automated Siphoning System with the then Comalco and is licensed to manufacture and sell worldwide these systems for delivering molten metal into furnaces.

Rio Tinto Alcan who manage primary aluminum smelters at Boyne Island and Bell Bay Australia and Tiwai Point, New Zealand together with Major jointly developed the Siphon Pipe Handling Systems, its structure and its Control System.

Tests with the fully operational system showed a reduction of some 75% of Dross make due to the enhanced, non turbulent flow achieved throughout hot metal transfer, thereby reducing scrap metal sent to recycling or secondary processing.

Advanced Siphon Systems Incorporate

• Siphon Pipe Handling System, Siphon Pipe, Siphon Support Structure, Siphon Control System and Siphon Pipe Changeover Vehicle.

These Systems have been supplied to:

• Boyne Smelters, Australia
• Sohar Aluminium, Oman

AFC-Holcroft

Major is licensed by AFC-Holcroft to manufacture, sell and service Mesh Belt Furnace Systems capable of carburising, carbonitriding and neutral hardening in capacity range 500 lb to 6000 lbs per hour.Established in 1960, AFC-Holcroft focused on the design and manufacture of a full family of quality heat treatment equipment from simple box furnaces to fully computerised and automated high production lines. AFC-Holcroft has operations in North America, Canada and Mexico. Major markets the AFC-Holcroft technology throughout Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

Furnaces and Equipment

• ModulTherm®, low-pressure vacuum carburizing with high-pressure gas quenching systems
• E-Z™ series endothermic modular gas generators
• Pyro-Kleen® thermal cleaning systems
• GapMiser™ soft loading system for continuous belt furnaces
• Continuous austempering systems
• Mesh belt furnaces
• Automated hot-forged powder metal systems
• Single and multiple-row pushers, and multi-chamber carburizing systems

• Flexible heat treat cells
• Computer-controlled belt, batch and pusher systems
• Sealed walking beam furnaces
• Tension-free belt drive systems
• Fully automated heat treat systems
• Fully automated heat treat and press set systems for valve springs
• Automated heat treat and fixture quench systems for bearings and gears
• “Low-Flow” generator-free atmosphere systems
• Flexible quenching systems: high pressure gas, IntensiQuench®, oil, salt/austemper