Healdsburg, California. RAYTEQ LLC announces that SKS Die Casting & Machining, Alameda, California, has purchased Rayteq’s new Fleet Commander™ interactive demand management system (IDMS™) to minimize the kW demand of its fleet of electric resistance melting furnaces without impairing production rates or casting quality. As part of a recent campaign to reduce its utility expenses, SKS elected to equip five of its existing electric melters with Rayteq’s Fleet Commander™ retrofit control panels which will enable their furnaces to be controlled by Rayteq’s new Fleet Commander™ IDMS™ software.

Rayteq’s Fleet Commander™ IDMS™ software will be featured in Rayteq’s Booth No. 402 at the upcoming 2011 NADCA Tabletop Exhibition in Columbus, Ohio, along with its new high-powered, compact, Fleet Commander-ready DC Series electric furnaces that melt right at the die casting machine. Additional information is available at Rayteq’s Web Site: www.Rayteq.com

Healdsburg, California. RAYTEQ LLC, located in the heart of California’s Sonoma wine country, will display its new line of high-powered, compact electric resistance melting furnaces with unique hybrid digital/analog controls for melting aluminum and magnesium alloys right at the die casting machine, thereby eliminating substantial energy losses from hot metal transporting, launders and holding furnaces in central melt systems. Advantages over conventional fuel fired melting include higher energy efficiency, less metal loss, fewer scrap castings, no air quality issues, no operator heat stress, and no noise.

High furnace melting rates in a compact space are made possible by Rayteq’s unique high power density heating elements featuring new life-enhancing materials technology. Rayteq also supplies exact heating element replacements incorporating this new technology for other electric furnace makes.

Rayteq’s new DC Series electric furnaces are available in six standard sizes ranging in capacity from 700 lbs. to 3,250 lbs. aluminum, and are supplied ready to operate with Rayteq’s Fleet Commander™ interactive demand management system (IDMS™) which achieves additional utility cost savings by minimizing electric furnace fleet kW demand without impairing production rates or casting quality. Rayteq’s Fleet Commander™ software operates with all Rayteq electric melters as well as conventional electric furnaces equipped with Fleet Commander™ retrofit kits.

Three new Rayteq DC Series electric furnaces and an older Dynarad electric furnace, retrofitted to accommodate Rayteq’s Fleet Commander™ IDMS™, are currently operating under the control of Fleet Commander™ IDMS™ software at A & B Die Casting, Hercules, California. Frank B. Smith, President & CEO of Rayteq, Bob Dathe, President of A & B Die Casting, and Matthew Smith, Exec. VP & Engineering Manager of Rayteq will give a technical paper describing all the new technology entitled Bringing Back Electric Melting at the 2011 NADCA Congress & Tabletop Exhibition, September 19 to 21 in Columbus, Ohio.

Both Rayteq’s new DC Series electric furnaces and Fleet Commander™ IDMS™ software will be featured in Rayteq’s Booth No. 402 at the 2011 NADCA Tabletop Exhibition in Columbus. Additional information is available at Rayteq’s Web Site: www.Rayteq.com