RuC® –
Ready-to-use Cathode
The advanced next Cathode Generation by Tokai COBEX
RuC® Is the Future
Two concepts in one innovative solution
Ready-to-use Cathode (RuC®) with Copper-Carbon Design reducing energy consumption
Five benefits of RuC®:
- Energy saving
- Longer lifetime
- Increased productivity
- Environmental friendliness
- Rodding avoidance
We are optimizing your smelter technology; you are increasing your margin.
Ready-to-use Concept
Simplify your business and lining process
We assemble your cathode blocks:
- With premium materials
- With best quality standards
- With highest precision
- With high consistency
- Arriving and ready for installation
RuC® Copper-Carbon Design
Value creation
Our unique solution helps to improve
- your pot stability,
- your energy consumption,
- your productivity & efficiency,
- your waste management.
Your benefit amounts to
- longer lifetime,
- lower energy bill,
- more metal,
- recycling of copper.
RuC® Is Simply Green
Less spent pot lining (SPL) materials with longer cell life due to RuC®
Worldwide – 300.000 t of SPL less every year
Less anode carbon consumption and less PFC emissions due to improved cell stability with RuC®
Worldwide – 5 million t of CO₂ emissions less every year
Energy saving due to RuC® increases your operational benefit and can decrease CO₂ emissions
Worldwide – 7 million t of CO₂ emissions less every year
Go greener easily with RuC®.
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Smelters gain benefits with RuC®:
- Rodding avoidance: delivery of assembled blocks with metal parts, reduced health & safety risks
- Energy saving (lower SEC) + better pot stability (lower noise level) + increased productivity (higher CE, improved current creep)
- Extended pot lifetime: more consumable cathode material and reduced peak current density
- Copper recovery with high return
These highlighted benefits result in a visible and significant economic advantage and lower CO2 emissions for a greener aluminium production. RuC® increases the operational margin in aluminium smelters.
We are designing and delivering RuC® for all smelting technologies worldwide. With our technical service starting from cell lining design through to installation and start-up, customers receive full support from Tokai COBEX.
Over the pot lifetime, we stay in close contact with our customers to ensure the full achievements of all RuC® benefits.
Upgrade your smelter with RuC® and increase your operational margin.
RuC® is the future.
Contacts – Technical Service RuC® Specialists
