As a key player in all the various stages of start-up in an aluminum production centre, the SL&B team will guide your personnel toward full capacity production.

Our personnel masters all the dimensions of health and safety management and envrionmental protection; two critical elements for the supervision of work teams in each division of activity. The SL&B supervisors specialize in the skills and competences required for effective team management.

SL&B Support to Aluminium Smelter Operations

• Cathode rodding
• Pot replacement
• Pot-lining removal and replacement process
• Preparation and start-up of the electrolysis pots
• Follow-up of young pots
• Potline operation restart
• Quality control
• Lining process audit

SL&B Consulting Services

• Optimization of cathode rodding process
• Choice of techniques for pot lining
• Pot replacement technique
• Audits to identify best practices and improvement opportunities:
  • Pot coating and cathode rodding
  • Pot start-up and first months of operation
  • Pot-tending operation: process control, alumine feed,
    metal control, anode changes, resistance control,
    anode rodding
• Quality controller training
• Experienced people in knowledge in old and new technologies
  of pot operation