Kaltra announces that its second microchannel heat exchanger manufacturing facility, opened earlier this year, has now reached its nominal capacity of 800,000 units per year. This capacity adds to the 3 million units per year nominal output of Kaltra’ s main factory, further strengthening the company’ s ability to respond to rising global demand. The new factory is equipped with state-of-the-art automation, including automatic core builders for precise coil assembly, a complete range of fin machines covering all fin sizes and pitches, and a continuoustype CAB furnace enabling reliable, high-volume brazing. These investments ensure consistent quality, scalability, and efficiency across production. |
Spanning 16,000 m 2, the site combines the manufacturing plant with office space and wellstructured loading yards, designed for streamlined logistics and smooth material flow. The high degree of automation aligns with Kaltra’ s strategy to reduce lead times, improve repeatability, and deliver maximum flexibility to its customers. This achievement builds on Kaltra’ s earlier 2025 automation upgrades and underscores the company’ s long-term commitment to growth, innovation, and leadership in thermal management solutions. Kaltra’ s second factory has reached its nominal capacity of 800,000 microchannel heat exchangers annually, adding to 3 million at its main site. |
Metso is launching Data-driven Performance Services to empower the mining industry with faster, fact-based issue resolution. Metso’ s Data-driven Performance Services are a set of innovative equipment performance solutions designed to help customers prevent production losses, avoid safety risks, and ensure consistently optimized operations. Data-driven Performance Services offer harmonized service capabilities that cover the entire minerals processing flowsheet. Metso’ s transformative data-driven solutions are a combination of intelligent thresholds, advanced analytics, and AI-enabled diagnostics capable of capturing and describing complex cases for faster action. The analytics and AI capabilities are complemented by Metso’ s continuously expanding global network of data-driven experts to ensure consistent and responsive service delivery. The enhanced remote monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities reduce the need for onsite inspections and resident experts. |
Metso’ s Data-driven Performance Services are designed for site maintenance and operations teams to maximize equipment availability, reliability, and performance through two scalable service levels: Data-driven Technical Support provides fast and factbased troubleshooting and issue resolution. Through live equipment data, Metso’ s experts can improve first-time fix rates and reduce production losses. The expanded data-driven expert network ensures consistent delivery of services. Data-driven Condition Monitoring enables early detection of equipment related issues and failures through continuous remote monitoring. AI-powered analytics and expert diagnosis ensure prioritized actions, reducing unplanned downtime and safety risks, improving availability, uptime, and performance. Combined with Life Cycle Services, Metso can conduct the corrective actions efficiently on-site. |
Lithoz is developing and additively manufacturing a ceramic heat exchanger for hydrogen-electric propulsion systems as part of the TRIATHLON project consortium. Funded by the European Union’ s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Action( RIA) programme, TRIATHLON is working to unite skills towards the development of disruptive |
approaches to design more robust, low-maintenance, low-emission, highly responsive hydrogen-electric powertrains for megawatt class aircraft. Lithoz is printing the heat exchanger in aluminium nitride( AIN), believing that these systems manufactured with this material will help to decarbonise aviation, improve system efficiency and sustainability, and reduce maintenance. |
Designed by Ergon Research, the heat exchanger is based on thermodynamics-driven control management. It leverages Lithoz‘ s LCM( Lithography-based Ceramic Manufacturing) CeraFab System printers and materials and is said to eliminate the need for energyintensive cryogenic hydrogen pumps. AIN is considered the |
perfect material for addressing the thermal management of these high-performance components due to its excellent thermal expansion coefficient and conductivity( 211 W / mK). This dramatically increases thermal efficiency and enables compact, lightweight system architecture, which is crucial for electrified aviation. |
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