Smelter fans
No-load start, fast current decay and variable-speed energy saving on draft and exhaust fans.
Fluid couplings for the Metal industry.
Couplings for aluminium, zinc, copper and charge-chrome plants — starting, protecting and controlling the smelter fans, conveyors, pumps and process drives that keep metal production running around the clock.
Overview
Built for the heat, dust and load of a metal plant.
Smelters and refineries run a punishing fleet of rotating equipment — large draft fans, long material-handling conveyors, abrasive process pumps and continuous process drives that start against high inertia and run for thousands of hours in hot, dusty conditions. Fluidomat couplings let motors start on no load, decay the starting-current kick in seconds and protect every drive from jams and overload.
For energy-hungry processes like aluminium and zinc smelting, variable-speed scoop couplings turn fan and pump speed control into real, measurable power savings — which is why leading producers including BALCO, Hindustan Zinc, NALCO, Hindalco and Hindustan Copper run our couplings across their plants.
Discuss a metal-plant drive
Sector footprint
Aluminium · Zinc · CopperFans
Smelter draft drives
Pumps
Abrasive process duty
5:1
Variable-speed range
1971
Proven since
Installed across charge-chrome, aluminium, zinc and copper plants nationwide.
Applications
Where our couplings work in a metal plant
Conveyors
Jerk-free belt acceleration, load sharing and continuous declutching on material handling.
Pumps
SC scoop couplings vary flow by speed — cutting wear and power on slurry and process pumps.
Process drives
Smooth acceleration and overload protection for crushers, mills and continuous process machinery.
In the field
Metal-sector case studies
Crusher
Technical note
Save your crusher motor from burning
How a fluid coupling protects ore and process crushers from jam-induced motor burnout.
Read the noteSlurry pump
Pump application
Proven couplings on slurry pump application
Stepless variable-speed control cuts pump wear and power on abrasive slurry duties.
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Energy note
The energy-conscious Fluidomat fluid couplings
Why variable-speed couplings pay back fast on the energy-intensive drives of a smelter.
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Trusted by
A selection of metal-sector clients
Leading aluminium, zinc, copper and charge-chrome producers run Fluidomat couplings — a partial list.
- Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd — Korba
- Hindustan Zinc Ltd — Agucha, Debari, Chanderia, Visakhapatnam
- Indian Aluminium Company Ltd — Hirakud
- Madras Aluminium Company Ltd — Salem
- N.A.L.C.O. — Angul, Damanjodi, Vizag
- Hindustan Copper Ltd — Khetri, Ghatshila
- Hindalco Industries Ltd — Renukoot, Dahej, Muri
- Indian Charge Chrome — Choudwar
Solving a metal-plant drive problem?
Tell us the application and we’ll engineer the right coupling — and the energy it could save.