Thermal Processing Magazine

Alex T. Gasbarre, CEO, Gasbarre Products, Inc., DuBois, Pennsylvania, has been elected president of the Powder Metallurgy Equipment Association (PMEA). PMEA is one of six trade associations under the Metal Powder Industries Federation, a not-for-profit association formed by the powder metallurgy industry to advance the interests of the metal powder producing and consuming industries. His […]

Delta H® recently delivered the first heat-treating system certified to AMS2750G for heat treating aviation grade aluminum for military aircraft. The new system at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, is the second installation at the massive depot facility and placed side by side with the previous Delta H dual chamber aerospace heat treat (DCAHT®) system installed in […]

Ecocat India, a leading catalyst manufacturer whose mission is to purify air by supplying the market with innovative catalysts for the automotive sector, has ordered an advanced technology vacuum gas cooling furnace from Seco/Warwick. The furnace, which will be delivered to Ecocat India in the second half of 2022, is a vacuum design adapted to […]

Solar Manufacturing Inc. had a successful third quarter this year, acquiring purchase orders for 10 vacuum furnaces. The types of new furnace orders ranged in size from the compact Mentor® and Mentor® Pro series to a large production furnace with a work zone of up to 72 inches in length. The furnaces will be shipped […]

The Lenox Group, an aluminum extrusion profiles company, decided to buy a Nitrex turnkey nitriding system after expanding operations with the addition of a second extrusion press to its plant in Bulgaria. Faced with increased production and disappointing nitriding results from third-party processing services, Lenox opted to bring operations in-house to improve die reliability through […]

InfoSight’s KettleTag®PLUS set a standard for survivable identification of galvanized steel. InfoSight has now simplified this process and is introducing the KettleTag®PLUS EZ (patent pending). This innovative tag is ready to attach after printing with no additional steps required. Fabricators and galvanizers use InfoSight KettleTagPLUS metal barcoded tags to identify fabricated products before galvanizing, because […]

L&L Special Furnace Company, Inc. has delivered a Model XLC3672 to a Midwest manufacturer of ceramic matrix parts (CMCs). CMCs materialize when nano fibers of silicone carbide or other ceramic nano threads are wound together, forming various sheets and 3D printed shapes deployed in aerospace and military applications. The resulting finished product is lighter and […]

In the frame of its decarbonization plan through an innovative DRI program, ArcelorMittal chooses Tenova for the supply of the DRI technology for its Dofasco plant in Canada. Tenova, a leading developer and provider of sustainable solutions for the green transition of the metals industry, was recently chosen by ArcelorMittal Dofasco, one of the flagship […]

Two Vector® vacuum furnaces are scheduled to be delivered to a national Mint in Europe. This is the eighth mint to choose Seco/Warwick solutions. The Vector furnaces will be used to harden the dies necessary for the production of coins for both circulation and collector series. Vector vacuum furnaces with 15 bar high-pressure gas quenching perfectly […]

Can-Eng Furnaces International Limited was contracted to engineer and commission a continuous quench and temper furnace system for a North American producer of mining and construction products. The purchase of this equipment is part of a larger plant expansion and initiative to bring foreign outsourced manufacturing in-house. This move is not only to improve part quality […]