EBNER GROUP, a global leader for melting, casting and heat treatment solutions for the aluminum industry with the companies EBNER, ETS, EED, Gautschi, TPS, Hazelett, HPI and GNA, has increased their stake in GNA alutech inc. to 100%.
At the Hainzenbachstraße kindergarten in Leonding, all children can now playfully discover and learn about the fascinating world of technology and science in the “A Nose for Science” nook sponsored by the EBNER GROUP.
GNA alutech inc. celebrates 40 years of excellence in the aluminum industry as a supplier of equipment and technology. CEO Ted Phenix hands over the reins to longtime employees Chantal Coupal and Kaleb Wright.
In February of this year, Stefan Pelech took over operational management of Gautschi Engineering GmbH. Together with Udo Weilerscheidt, who is responsible for the financial side of the business, he is leading the company into the future.
Thanks to the Spürnasenecke (“A Nose for Science” nook) sponsored by EBNER, children from the Hart day care center in Leonding, Austria are being introduced to scientific and technological subjects in a playful way. The “Nose for Science” nook, the first in the District of Linz Land (Greater Linz), was officially opened on Friday, April 28 in the presence of the town mayor.
Hazelett Strip-Casting Corporation of Colchester, Vermont USA has become a member of the EBNER GROUP, headquartered in Leonding, Austria, through the acquisition by EBNER of a majority interest in Hazelett. Mino S.p.A, based in Alessandria, Italy will remain a shareholder along with David Hazelett, who will also remain as both a shareholder and President.
At the end of 2020, Marcegaglia Ravenna / Italy placed an order with EBNER Industrieofenbau to expand their existing HICON/H2 bell annealer facility, with which they heat treat coils of steel strip.
EBNER TREATperfect calculation module successfully integrated into non-EBNER batch-type furnace for the first time. The TREATperfect calculation module was developed by EBNER, and is currently in use at many batch-type furnace facilities. Over the course of this project, the module was installed at a batch-type furnace manufactured by Gautschi for the first time. A customer in USA, had selected the proposed Gautschi batch-type furnace (designated as a “chamber” furnace). The bid included delivery of a temperature
In August of 2020, voestalpine STAHL of Linz, Austria placed an order with EBNER Industrieofenbau to install and commission a HICON/H2 bell annealer facility. This facility is designed to heat treat steel strip coils in 100 % hydrogen atmosphere, and is intended for cold rolling mill 2 (Kaltwalzwerk 2).
At the end of May, an order was placed with EBNER Industrieofenbau by Kaiming (Changzhou) New Material Technology Co., Ltd. for the delivery of a HICON/H2 bell annealer facility for steel wire.