In the wire rod process, there are two melting furnaces

from which molten metal is constantly supplied.
They are tilting air furnaces, therefore only the required amount of molten metal is supplied via automatic tilt control.
The molten aluminium from the melting furnace is treated in the holding furnace, then sent to ALMINE's cutting-edge continuous casting and rolling mill.
The ingots produced by the continuous casting machine are continuously checked by X-ray for internal defects and flaws.
The results of the inspection are kept as data to be verified every time a coil is wound.
Next, they go to the roller to be hot-rolled to a diameter of 9.5-35 mm.
The eddy-current flaw detector installed at the outlet of the roller automatically checks for surface defects.
A red, yellow, or green lamp blinks depending on the level of matter or defects detected; if the red lamp is lit, the product is returned to the melting stage to begin the process all over again.
The 9.5-mm-diameter wire rod coming off the continuous casting and rolling mill at the high speed of 1,000 meters per minute is taken up on a 2-ton coil by the winding machine.
Two winding machines are in operation, and when one reaches 2 tons, the process is automatically switched over to the other winding machine in 0.5 seconds.
Wire rod then undergoes a heat treatment which best suits the material or type.
After a strict quality inspection, it is moved to the next stage, which is either shipment or the drawing wire process.

Production process 
［Misumi Plant、Osaka Plant、ALMINE VIETNAM］

Production process 
［Misumi Plant、ALMINE VIETNAM］

The molten aluminium from the melting furnace automatically flows to the continuous casting machine and the hot coil is slowly taken up. While the hot coil is being taken up, test pieces are sampled and arranged in chronological order to undergo a series of tests. The hot coil thus produced is fed to the 6 Hi cold rolling mill , where it is rolled to a thickness of 0.2-4 mm. Our technical staff made significant improvements on the 6 Hi cold rolling mill to achieve high-speed, high-productivity operations. As a part of our thorough quality assurance system, the AFC* and AGC** systems help to maintain the high quality of our products.
Completely flat rollers are needed to produce perfectly flat sheets, there fore the 6 HI cold rolling mill rolls are ground and polished with newest technology grinding machine for mill rolls. The equipment is entirely surrounded by a 5-meter-deep groove to shut out vibration, as extremely high precision measured in microns is required.
The rolled sheets are washed with organic solvents to remove dirt and aluminium powder deposited during rolling. They are then sent to the tension leveler, where the degree of the sheet flatness is even further improved. After that, the sheet, which has been rolled to the specified thickness, is cut to the required length by the die-set shear (traveling cutting machine) if it is for sheet products (meter size). If the sheet is intended for bar products, it is cut to the required width with the slitter (width cutting machine) and taken up in bar form. Depending on the material and product type, heat treatment is applied during the production process by injecting DX gas for anoxic treatment. Following a strict quality inspection, the products are shipped.
＊AFC (automatic flatness control) system: An automatic control system for maintaining a stable profile and flatness.
＊＊AGC (automatic gauge control) system: An automatic control system for maintaining sheet thickness measured in microns to achieve the set sheet thickness.

Production process 
［Kawakami Plant］