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February 2022

ARTICLES

Heat-transfer fluids: Growing in visibility and importance

The growing use of electronics in many applications is leading researchers to better understand the reasons for using heat-transfer fluids. Electronics generate substantial amounts of heat, which needs to be dissipated in order to maintain performance. For the lubricant field, a primary example is the electric vehicle (EV). EV batteries need to operate at a […]
Neil Canter

Combustion optimization in gas burners of reverberatory Furnaces during nickel-alloy melting

In recent years, due to climate change, environmental sustainability programs have been created that require the search for alternatives to reduce air emissions and reduce fuel consumption. The combustion industry is looking for an effective solution to increase the life cycle of its equipment and improve combustion efficiency without neglecting safety or savings. The efficiency […]
Valeria Esthefania Quiroz Cabascango, Vladimir Yurevich Bazhin

NEWS

Nitrex doubles its manufacturing capacity in Europe

Nitrex, a global provider of fully integrated surface treatment solutions, has announced the completion of its Poland plant expansion. This expansion will allow the company to not only double its current European production capacity for both its Nitrex Turnkey Solutions, including gas nitriding furnaces, and UPC Marathon software and controls products line, but also manufacture […]
February 24, 2022

Aalberts continues commercial hardening plant expansion

Seco/Warwick equipment has been selected again by the international Aalberts Surface Technologies Group. The company already owns nine Seco/Warwick solutions, and this contract is the third one associated with the expansion of the machinery base in Dzierżoniów. Aalberts Surface Technologies owns Seco/Warwick equipment working with both vacuum and atmosphere technology. This time, the Dzierżoniów hardening plant […]
February 4, 2022

Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems ships batch sintering furnace

Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems shipped a 60” wide x 90” deep x 30” tall atmosphere box sintering furnace. The batch sintering furnace will be installed at Mueller Brass Co., a major supplier of brass rod and forgings in the United States. The box furnace is designed with a maximum operating temperature of 1,650°F, a capacity […]
February 4, 2022

International powder metallurgy conference programs launch

The North American conference on powder metallurgy (PM) and particulate materials has launched its 2022 conference program for PowderMet2022: International Conference on Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials. It will be co-located with AMPM2022: Additive Manufacturing with Powder Metallurgy Conference. The conference features more than 200 technical presentations from worldwide industry experts presenting on PM, particulate […]
February 4, 2022

L&L receives order for 10 furnaces for precious metal recovery

L&L Special Furnace Co., Inc. received an order for 10 model GS1714 general-purpose, bench-top lab furnaces. These furnaces will be used as part of a precious metals recovery system for a worldwide manufacturer of catalytic convertors, medical devices, and pollution environment controls. The assay division recycles many parts that were originally deployed as catalytic convertors […]
February 4, 2022

Celsa France chooses Tenova’s NextGen and iEAF digital platform systems

Tenova Goodfellow Inc. has received an order from Celsa France for the supply of one iEAF® technology platform using the NextGen® System for their 150ton scrap AC top charge furnace in Boucau, France. Tenova Goodfellow Inc. is a subsidiary of Tenova. Celsa France is an EAF steel producer specialized in the production of steel billets […]
February 4, 2022