Shandong Nanshan Aluminium Company Limited of China and SMS Meer of Germany signed the contract for the supply of a total of 14 light metal extrusion presses.

Shandong Nanshan Aluminium Company Limited is the leading manufacturer of extruded aluminum products in China. Since 2004, the company has consistently relied on the extrusion technology from SMS Meer.

With the 14 new machines, the customer will have a total of 28 modern Schloemann extrusion presses in operation. The new light metal extrusion presses cover the press force range from 11 MN to 150 MN. The machines are used to produce standard structural profiles and increasingly also seamless aluminum tubes, heavy industrial profiles and profiles for the transport and railways sector.

SMS Meer GmbH is a company of the SMS group which is under the roof of the holding SMS GmbH, a group of companies internationally active in plant construction and mechanical engineering for the steel and nonferrous metals industry. It consists of the 2 Business Areas SMS Siemag and SMS Meer.

In 2009, some 9,000 employees worldwide generated a turnover of more than EUR 3.8 billion. The 150 MN extrusion press is already the second front loading press from SMS Meer of this size to be supplied to the Chinese province of Shandong. The SMS Meer front loading extrusion presses offer the following advantages: High machine availability, large billet charge weights, safe loading procedure and short nonproductive times with optimized process sequences. This result in a generally higher productivity compared with other machine concepts.