Thermal Processing Magazine

As more mid-sized companies recover from pandemic-related disruptions, Ipsen is seeing a surge in interest for standardized equipment. Ipsen reports a steady increase of orders for Titan vacuum furnaces this year, with five in July alone. That’s a substantial increase over the same period in 2020, and a fundamental shift from the more specialized equipment […]

Kentucky Machine & Engineering chose a Lucifer Furnaces Red Devil dual chamber furnace-over-oven when it was looking to replace an old gas-fired furnace. As a machine repair business in Cadiz, Kentucky, it needed a reliable, economical, and well-built unit. With both chambers 12” H x 14” W x24” L, the upper chamber is programmed to […]

Can-Eng Furnaces International, Ltd. was awarded a contract to design and manufacture two 50,000-pound load capacity car bottom furnaces for one of the largest metals and mining companies in the world. These custom-engineered furnaces will support the manufacturing of critical metal hot rolling machine components used in the production rolling of high value-added automotive steel […]

Seco/Warwick will provide global bolt manufacturer Solvera Gawel Technology S.A. with a second ATE process line comprising an electrical mesh belt PTE furnace. The new line will be intended mostly for carbonitriding and hardening processes (under endothermic atmosphere enriched with methane and ammonia) and for washing and tempering of high-quality screws and other hardware manufactured […]

Seco/Warwick will deliver a Vector® vacuum furnace to another national mint. The furnace will be delivered to the manufacturer of circulation and collection coins in Egypt. It is the first contract Seco/Warwick has concluded in the country. The National Mint of Egypt is the seventh mint in the world to choose Seco/Warwick solutions. The Vector […]

Super Systems, Inc. recently completed a controls upgrade for Elmira Heat Treat in Elmira, New York. The scope of the project included a new 9220 control system for a vacuum furnace. The 9220 is a robust vacuum furnace recipe-based controller which is the command center for control, I/O, and redundant data logging for the processes […]

While some businesses saw an economic slowdown in the last year, Ipsen USA took advantage of rare downtime by completing several operational projects focused on continuous improvement. The initiative resulted in a nearly 20 percent increase in floor capacity for new furnace builds during what could be a record-setting year for Ipsen’s Vacuum Technology Excellence […]

Service Heat Treating, a leading Midwest heat treater, completed a multi-year plant expansion. “We added almost 40,000 square feet, effectively doubling our space,” said Paul Armitage, president of Service Heat Treating. “This allowed us to add heat-treating capacity with another batch furnace and four new nitride furnaces.” In response to high customer demand, Service Heat […]

Lucifer Furnaces delivered a high-temperature hardening box furnace to a metal stamping manufacturer in the Southeast United States. The end user chose a Lucifer to upgrade older heat-treating equipment and will be employing the furnace for everyday use. Model HL7-H24 has a 9”x 12” x24” chamber and heats to 2,300°F. Temperature is controlled with a […]

Solar Manufacturing Inc., Sellersville, Pennsylvania, has received US Patent No. 11053560, issue date July 6, 2021.  The patent covers the use of a full isolation power transformer for use with a 600 hp 460-volt motor, and with an ionizing gas, such as argon, to prevent electric motor ground fault and failure, with additional solid-state circuit […]

Voestalpine High Performance Metals Polska, a leader in the tool and dies segment, placed an order for a retort tempering furnace with vacuum purging. The Seco/Warwick furnace will be used for tempering tool steel after the gas quenching process. This is the first cooperation between the companies after the global pandemic crisis. The new contract […]

Can-Eng Furnaces International Ltd. was awarded two contracts from one of the world’s largest producers of high volume, specialty automotive fasteners. The two systems represent Can-Eng’s high-capacity line of mesh belt fastener heat-treatment systems. Can-Eng was selected again by this client as a result of the proven system benefits realized through low-energy consumption, reduced part […]

Tenova, a leading company in sustainable solutions for the green transition of the metals industry, received a new contract for the supply of a decarburization and coating line (DCL) from VIZ-Stal (NLMK Group), for its plant in Ekaterinburg, Russia. The contract was awarded through its company Tenova LOI Thermprocess, a worldwide leader for industrial furnace […]

The Welding Alloys Group launched a thermal spray solution for applications in the waste to energy, biomass and fossil fuel boilers. This process is also, among others, suitable for black liquor boilers, fume extraction hoods, and ducts in the steel industry, and can be tailored for a large range of other applications, including abrasion, corrosion, […]

Dante Solutions will be at Heat Treat 2021 to share recent advancements in heat treatment modeling and talk heat treatment simulation with fellow conference goers. The 2021 ASM Heat Treat Society (HTS) Technical Conference and Exposition (Heat Treat 2021) is September 14-16 in St. Louis, Missouri. Dante representatives will be at Booth 1720. Dante Solutions […]

Burloak Technologies received and commissioned two DELTA H® furnace systems for use in both R&D as well as full-scale additive manufacturing production of aluminum products. Burloak reported that parts initially being processed in the two furnace systems included items for the Canadian Space Agency and revolutionary communications satellites. The two furnace systems include a single-chamber […]

In a milestone toward a more sustainable combustions process, Tenova developed the first burners for furnaces using up to 100 percent hydrogen while keeping NOx emissions below strict limits. Tenova, a leading company in sustainable solutions for the green transition of the metals industry, continues its efforts toward carbon neutrality with an important achievement resulting […]

Solar Atmospheres of Western PA successfully vacuum heat treated the largest and longest load of nickel alloy tubing ever in a commercial vacuum furnace. The mission was to preserve the crucial elements of brightness and cleanliness of the 45-foot-long seamless tubing while meeting extremely stringent mechanical properties. “We spent countless hours reviewing critical systems such […]

Nitrex’s Aurora commercial heat-treat facility is now in the hot testing phase of its newly installed low-pressure carburizing (LPC) and vacuum system, which is expected to start production in September. In April of 2020, Jason Orosz, president of Nitrex Heat Treating Services, announced that the company was expanding the production at its Aurora plant, located […]