Our laboratory in Harzgerode is one of the best-equipped facilities of its type in Germany. This ensures, among other things, that we possess the very latest smelting and treatment facilities for the production and testing of smelted products. These facilities include: a laboratory smelting plant with two induction lifting coil furnaces (10 kg and 50 kg); a mobile resistance-heated smelting and holding furnace (350 kg); a smelting treatment system for cleaning, degassing, and/or chlorinating; a vacuum testing system for determining density indices; a thermal analysis system for recording and analyzing cooling curves; a heated table with ingot molds for casting a wide variety of test samples, a spectrometer for determining chemical composition (SPECTRO); a pendulum impact testing machine for stress testing thin-walled aluminum samples; and multiple facilities for carrying out heat treatments.