Thermal Processing Magazine

Coming off a year where they shipped more than 50 new vacuum furnaces, Ipsen’s Vacuum Technology Excellence Center was awarded two new furnace orders in the first week of the new year. One of the orders is for a well-recognized and innovative power tool manufacturer based in the United States. The Ipsen TurboTreater® they ordered […]

Solar Manufacturing recently shipped a 10-bar gas-quenching vacuum furnace to a captive heat treater in New England. The Model HFL-3836-10IQ-VC features high-pressure gas quenching and vacuum carburizing. The furnace has a graphite insulated hot zone with a work area measuring 24” wide x 24” high x 36” deep and a load weight capacity up to […]

Tenova, a leading company specialized in innovative solutions for the metals and mining industries, was awarded a contract by Valbruna ASW Inc., for the supply of a new EAF (Electric Arc Furnace). Valbruna ASW Inc. is a premier specialty steel-maker and the EAF will be installed at its facility located in Welland, Ontario (Canada). The […]

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems recognized Solar Atmospheres of Western PA (SAWPA) as a top-performing supplier in 2020 with the Outstanding Customer Service Award. As a global leader of military and DoD critical hardware, Northrop Grumman Defense Systems offers security to customers across the globe through the operational excellence SAWPA provides to customers. Solar Atmospheres appreciates  […]

The FDA announced it will allow the use of dry heat to lower the bioburden on masks used by healthcare workers treating COVID-19 patients. While not authorizing equipment made by a particular company, guidance released said healthcare providers may use dry heat to reprocess NIOSH-approved filtering facepiece respirators, such as N95s, to enable their reuse […]

The Powder Coating Institute (PCI) announced its 2021 board of directors and executive officers. They are: President: John Cole, president, Parker Ionics. Vice president: Chris Merritt, general manager, Gema USA, Inc. Secretary/treasurer: Shelley Verdun, business manager, Powder Coatings, PPG. Past president: Suresh Patel, sales director — director, North America business development, BASF/Chemetall US Inc. In […]

Babcock International Group, the aerospace and defense company, has placed an order for an extensive set of PEMA welding and production lines for shipbuilding at its Rosyth site in Scotland. In total, the order includes three lines — PEMA Thin plate panel line, PEMA Micro panel line, and PEMA T-beam fabrication line. Each PEMA production […]

A division of the U.S. Department of Defense uses a vacuum furnace with low-pressure carburizing from Seco/Warwick Group to bolster its capability to ensure supply chain reliability. A unique vacuum heat-treating furnace from Seco/Vacuum (SVT), a Seco/Warwick Group company, with integral oil quench will also be equipped with high-pressure gas quench as well as low-pressure […]

Tenova, a leading company specialized in innovative solutions for the metals and mining industries, marks a new milestone in the decarbonization of steel production with its TSX SmartBurner for reheating furnaces now ready to be installed in industrial plants with potentially zero carbon dioxide emissions, working in a full range of hydrogen and natural gas […]

Grieve No. 1019 is a 500ºF electrically heated walk-in batch oven from Grieve used for curing coatings onto large discs at the customer’s facility. Workspace dimensions on this oven measure 18’ W x 18’ D x 10’ H. 260KW are installed in Incoloy-sheathed tubular elements to heat the oven chamber, while a total of 66,000 […]

Can-Eng Furnaces International LTD has been contracted to deliver a significant number of different furnace types to multiple unique customers in the United States and Canada for the heating and heat treatment of both aluminum and steel closed die forgings. The furnace configurations either under construction in the company shops or in the early stages […]

Solar Atmospheres of California (SCA) recently added additional large furnace capacity to their already extensive inventory of vacuum equipment. The furnace was specifically designed to process a variety of materials that require optimum performance during controlled heating, controlled cooling, vacuum processing, positive pressure processing, and differential pressure processing. SCA works very closely with sister company […]

Wayland Additive is commercially launching its first production system — Calibur3 — on January 27 and registration is open for both the physical and virtual events. Wayland’s NeuBeam process — encapsulated in the Calibur3 System — eliminates many of the compromises that users of metal AM processes have had to make to date both for […]

Vastex Industrial has introduced a D-100 model infrared conveyor oven for laboratory testing and low volume production applications. At 46 inches (117 cm) long by 24 inches (61 cm) wide by 24 inches (61 cm) high, the compact unit can be placed on tabletops or wheeled utility carts with tops as small as 24 inches […]

Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania completed a hot zone replacement on one of its larger horizontal car bottom vacuum furnaces, the second rebuild over the 17 years of furnace operation. The furnace, with a work zone measuring 54” W x 54” H x 144” L and a load capacity of 50,000 pounds, has been in […]

Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH has commissioned Tenova for the construction of µDRAL, a demonstration plant for producing Direct Reduced Iron (DRI), using up to 100 percent hydrogen as a reducing agent. The plant is based on the ENERGIRON® technology and will be installed on the premises of the Salzgitter steel mill at Salzgitter, Germany. Salzgitter Flachstahl […]