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Tenova wins another order in aluminum strip processing line by Henan Tongren
Henan Tongren Aluminium Co. Ltd, gave Tenova a contract for a continuous annealing and chemical pretreatment line for processing strip coils for the aluminum...
Principles of pyrometry
Regarding comprehension, on a scale of 1 to 10, AMS2750E is about a 12. Practically speaking, when an engineer, quality person, or operator picks...
TPS ships five Blue M ovens to automotive manufacturer
Thermal Product Solutions, a global manufacturer of thermal-processing equipment, announced the shipment of five Blue M standard mechanical convection ovens to a global manufacturer...
Messer brings gases expertise to Americas
Messer Group and CVC Capital Partners Fund VII recently announced the completion of the planned acquisition of certain businesses in North and South America...
Seco/Warwick rotary retort furnace proves a success in 2018
The rotary retort technology is designed to produce consistently superior quench hardening performance that is required for fast, economical, uniform heat treating of small...
Heat-treatment of modified 9CrMo steel
The modified 9CrMo steels, such as Grade 91, Grade 92, and HT9, are materials of choice for fossil-fuel-fired power plants and Next Generation Nuclear...
Wisconsin Oven ships curing oven to global manufacturer
Wisconsin Oven Corporation announced the shipment of a 2-Zone indirect gas-fired heavy-duty walk-in oven to a global manufacturer in the composite industry. Wisconsin Oven...
U.S.-based fastener manufacturer buys AFC-Holcroft furnace
A Midwestern facility of a U.S.-based leader in the manufacture of safety-critical fasteners and assembly solutions has purchased a new MB48-120 mesh belt furnace...
Process quality control in heat treatment
In thermal processing, process quality control is imperative to produce and control conforming product and overall conformance. In this article we will be examining...
Dalton Electric Heating Company
When a company has been around for almost a century, just the sheer number of years of business means it must be doing something...
Aluminum manufacturer adds Seco technology
According to the Aluminum Association, the official U.S. trade group, the aluminum industry generates nearly $71 billion a year in direct economic impact in...
Q&A with Matthias Pascher
What is your role at Buehler?
I am the product manager for our hardness testing equipment within Buehler.
Buehler is a global supplier of apparatus for...
Process control is vital to heat-treating
The definition of process control can only be defined by the experience of the per-son to whom the query is presented. Everyone involved in...
IHEA events are in full swing this spring
Spring has sprung and the Industrial Heating Equipment Association calendar is filled with events for everyone. If you are involved in the industtrial thermprocess...
Seco/Warwick Group reports record order portfolio
The Seco/Warwick Group, one of the five largest manufacturers of equipment for the heat treatment of metals and vacuum metallurgy in the world, reports...
The versatility of the pit furnace
Top-loading furnaces, commonly referred to as pit furnaces, have played a major role in the heating treating landscape for the last century or longer....
Grieve offers 550ºF floor-level cabinet oven
The Grieve No. 1030 is a 550ºF floor-level electric cabinet oven currently used for heating large gears at the customer’s facility. Workspace dimensions of...
Wisconsin Oven ships heavy-duty walk-in oven
Wisconsin Oven Corporation announced the shipment of one natural gas fired heavy-duty walk-in series oven to a manufacturer in the composites industry.
The heavy-duty walk-in...
TPS ships two Gruenberg Class ‘A’ cabinet ovens
Thermal Product Solutions, a global manufacturer of thermal-processing equipment, has shipped two Gruenberg Class "A" cabinet ovens to the specialty filter industry.
These Gruenberg industrial...
PhoenixTM achieves UKAS ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for UK laboratory
Phoenix Temperature Measurement has recently obtained UKAS ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for its calibration laboratory in the UK (Laboratory Number 10560).
The new accreditation strengthens the...
Grieve offers cooling chamber for steel parts
The No. 807 is a cooling chamber from Grieve used for cooling oven trucks of steel parts at the customer's facility. Workspace dimensions measure...
Swiss corporation chooses Nitrex nitrocarburizing system for new facility
Swiss corporation Alu Menziken Extrusion AG chose a Nitrex nitrocarburizing system for its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility on a greenfield site in northwestern Romania.
Alu Menziken...
