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We are thrilled to announce that Wirtz Manufacturing has been voted the BEST Manufacturing Business in the Blue Water area! This award is a testament to our dedicated team and the hard work we put in every day. Congratulations to everyone at Wirtz for this well-deserved recognition! Let’s continue to lead and innovate.

The process manufacturing plants use to create lead is referred to as lead smelting. Lead smelting companies were once prevalent throughout the United States and other countries in the world, and lead is still required in a number of day-to-day tasks. The Process of Smelting Producing lead first begins with sintering. This is when lead ore gets put inside a sintering machine along with a number of other substances, which can include: Soda ash Zinc Coke Limestone fluxes Silica Iron Pollution control particulates Caustics Pyrite These reducing substances fuse with oxidizing elements. This frees up the metal, and then reduction takes place. The material is put inside a reducing environment, which often…

Continuous casting allows metals and alloys to be stretched, shaped and solidified without the need for an interruption, reducing waste while improving yield, cost efficiency, and quality. Introduced into steel manufacturing the 1950s as an alternative to ingot molds, the continuous casting machine has now become a standard in premium battery grid production. Using a series of rollers and water-cooled molds, the process lessens the chance of impurities and provides better thickness ratios. To get a better idea of the continuous casting process, let’s review the basics, from molten metal to a finished grid. Continuous Casting: Step by Step In continuous grid manufacturing, molten lead is ladled into the casting machine, where it is…