IHEA rings in 2023 with some great events
February
IHEA’s Fundamentals of Industrial Process Heating Online Course starts February 20: IHEA’s Fundamentals of Industrial Process Heating Online Learning Course has been a successful...
Find the right equipment
Vacuum carburizing or LPC, neutral hardening, oil or HPGQ (high pressure gas quench), vacuum pumps, graphite insulation, radiation shields or ceramic insulation, graphite or...
Furnace Types
Heat treating furnaces consist of several subassemblies: insulation (fiber and brick), heating systems (electric and gas), material handling, quenching, atmosphere system, process and control...
Q&A with David Hamling
What’s a typical week like for you at ZIRCAR Ceramics?
I drive the company’s sales and marketing efforts and usually begin my day with a...
Q&A with Mike Paponetti
You were recently promoted to Southeast Sales Manager. How does this new position differ from your previous one?
In the last position, I was a...
Learn from the best with educational offerings from IHEA
Process Heating Education Online
IHEA’s Fundamentals of Industrial Process Heating Online Learning Course continues to provide an excellent overview of the essential areas used...
Q&A with Joe Ugalde
Business Marketing Analyst with TE Wire & Cable, LLC
Variation in steel hardenability
Many heat-treating processes cannot tolerate appreciable variations in steel hardenability. For an established in-control process, deviations in chemical composition and starting microstructure may result...
27th IFHTSE Congress, European conference on heat treatment headed to Austria
The 27th IFHTSE Congress will be in Salzburg, Austria, September 5-8, 2022 at the Wyndham Grand Salzburg Conference Center. The conference chairs are Eva...
True Carbon Potential
The relationship between a carbon-rich atmosphere and its effects on low-carbon steel are well known. The evolution of carburizing led to in-situ monitoring of...
Troubleshooting induction hardening problems – Part III
In previous columns, I have provided some detail on the sources of problems with induction hardening. While I have tried to be inclusive, there...
Conference updates and other IFHTSE highlights
ECHT 2023 Conference
AIM is proud to announce the ECHT 2023 Conference in Genova, Italy, at Magazzini del Cotone. The conference will meet May...
Member spotlight: Karl Dungs markets combustion controls
Karl Dungs, Inc, a subsidiary of Karl Dungs GmbH & Co. KG, was established in 1997 as the Dungs sales channel for the North...
Q&A with Roseanne Brunello
What do you and Mountain Rep do for the heat-treat industry?
Mountain Rep is a manufacturing rep firm that has been in business for 35...
Thermal triplets: PM, sintering, and case hardening
From my experience, powder metals (PM), sintering, and case hardening are three processes that could be said to be joined at the hip. More...
Q&A with Aziz Jamaluddin
What is Epcon?
Epcon is a full-service organization, starting with front-end business development/marketing, sales and application engineering, through complete in-house engineering, design, and drafting —...
ITPS delivers outstanding presentations to industry executives
Industry leaders and executives gathered in Atlanta July 30-August 1 for the second ITPS — International ThermProcess Summit — and by all accounts and...
Fatigue failures in nickel-based austenitic Superalloy 718
Superalloy 718 is widely used for aerospace, nuclear, power generation, metal processing, medical, material processing, and chemical and petrochemical industries due to its excellent...
IHEA launches sustainability and decarbonization initiatives
IHEA has been developing a variety of initiatives over the past six months relating to sustainability and decarbonization in the industrial heating equipment industry.
“We...
Gap analysis can guide procedure changes
Well-designed procedures are crucial to any business operation, whether it’s a simple task of following a procedure to construct a cardboard box, or something...
Q&A with Richard Slattery
Vice President, Engineering with Capstan Atlantic
IHEA Combustion Safety Training: One-Day Safety Standards and Codes Seminar
Explosions and fires in industrial heating systems can result in injury or loss of life, as well as loss of property and production. Understanding...
AMS2750E, Nadcap requirements
When I consult, I will periodically perform a gap analysis on a supplier’s heat-treat process to either obtain Nadcap approval or as a check-and-balance...
Combatting undesirable NMTP formations
Whether formed during a conventional quench and tempering process, carburizing, or induction hardening, non-martensitic transformation products (NMTP) are widely considered undesirable microstructural features. However,...
IHEA 2023 Annual Meeting returns to Florida
The Industrial Heating Equipment Association will hold its 2023 Annual Meeting March 13-15 at the beautiful One Ocean Resort & Spa in Atlantic Beach,...
Handling temperature variations
Four essential maintenance steps for preserving temperature uniformity in your atmosphere furnace
Use of molten salt in heat treatment
At the turn of the 20th century, the use of molten salt as a heating and quenching medium for steels was developed in England....
New member spotlight: Energy-tech company Reuter-Stokes
Reuter-Stokes, a Baker Hughes business, is an energy-technology company, producing products that are vital to its customers’ harshest measurement and mission-critical sensing applications.
For the...
Q&A with Jeff Marshall
What does Metallurgical High Vacuum Corporation do for the industry?
We remanufacture pumps. That’s probably the core of our business, but that’s changing because of...
Make sure you have these conferences on the calendar
European Conference on Heat Treatment/IFHTSE 27th Congress
Wyndham Grand Salzburg Conference Center
Salzburg, Austria | September 5-8, 2022
Sponsored by ASMET, the Austrian Society for Metallurgy and...
Quench factor analysis: quench factor determination
In this column, we will discuss the determination of the quench factor as it is used in quench factor analysis. This will lead into...
The ‘why’ in heat treating is important to operators
Quality is in the details, but what details need the most attention? A good contract review, starting with the purchase order, then the drawing,...
Calculating decarburization
In this column, I will be talking about decarburization of steel and how to calculate its depth.
Introduction
Decarburization of steel is the depletion of carbon...
The metallurgical R&D laboratory
Remembering old-school lab work is a blast from the past
Q&A with Greg Jennings
What’s a typical day like for you at Wisconsin Oven?
My typical day is quite a bit of fun. I’ve got three kids, and it’s...
Troubleshooting induction hardening problems: Part 2
Last month, I began a two-part article about troubleshooting induction hardening problems and discussed possible corrections. This month, I will discuss biological and odor...
Q&A with Shlok Sundaresh
What is your role at TS USA?
I joined TS USA, HEF Group, in 2014 as a process engineer for its Springfield, Ohio, facility. As...
IHEA shines a spotlight on its recent member, Weishaupt Corporation
Weishaupt Corporation recently joined the Industrial Heating Equipment Association and is proud to be part of a select group of organizations. IHEA strives to...
Industry conference news for 2023, beyond
The 5th International Conference on Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering of Tools and Dies (HTSE-TD), sponsored by the Chinese Heat Treating Association, will be...
How to keep decarburization in check
The performance of heat-treated steel components is largely dependent on the condition of their surface. Wear and fatigue resistance are examples of design criteria...