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Automotive company chooses SECO/WARWICK EV/CAB line for factory
SECO/WARWICK will provide an international company in the automotive industry with an EV/CAB line; the design was chosen most often by the automotive sector....
Choosing between HFC and HFDu hydraulic fluids
While both HFC and HFDu hydraulic fluids reduce fire risk, improve operation safety, and enhance environmental performance, significant differences exist. Standing at 50 to...
Carbo-nitriding of forging dies
Forging dies have to resist high mechanical and thermal loads. Therefore, they are usually nitrided. Former investigations showed that the abrasive wear at the...
Horizon Performance Technologies LLC
Finishing parts and materials using heat processing is often an essential step in ensuring those parts will perform as they should in the field....
Horizon Performance Technologies acquires Perceptive Industries
Horizon Performance Technologies LLC (Horizon) has acquired all intellectual property of Perceptive Industries Inc. (Perceptive). Since 2002 Perceptive has been supplying industrial ovens to...
Armil CFS launches Tru-Forge furnace product
Armil CFS introduces the Tru-ForgeTM slot forge furnace, a pre-engineered gas-fired furnace with a temperature range of 1,500°F -2,450°F.
The furnace is fired by...
Applied Test Systems announces promotions
Applied Test Systems, with more than 50 years of experience, continues to grow and make improvements with customer needs in mind. The company recently...
New ABB OmniVance FlexArc Compact adds flexibility
ABB launched its OmniVance™ FlexArc® Compact — a new, smaller welding application cell with greater flexibility, ease-of-use and better integration — to help businesses...
Kanthal APMT for nuclear-energy application
The major earthquake and tsunami that occurred in Japan in 2011 did serious damage to boiling water reactors of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant....
Understanding the effect of boron in steels
In this column, we will discuss the effect of boron additions to steel and its influence on properties.
Boron, B, is an element with an...
IHEA announces 2022-23 board of directors and officers
The Industrial Heating Equipment Association (IHEA) recently announced its 2022-23 board of directors and executive officers. Serving as president is Jeff Valuck of Surface...
CCAI recognizes award recipients at annual event
During the 2022 CCAI Annual Meeting in Avon, Colorado, the Chemical Coaters Association International held their annual awards ceremony to recognize the CCAI Chapter...
Members to be awarded citations at European heat treat conference
The European Conference on Heat Treatment/IFHTSE 27th Congress, will be September 5-8 at the Wyndham Grand Salzburg Conference Center in Salzburg, Austria. The event...
Nitrex delivers vacuum furnace to aircraft provider
Nitrex Vacuum recently shipped a new large vertical vacuum furnace to a major engine MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) shop/repair company in South America....
The process of problem solving
The corrective action. That dreaded tally on one’s personal record at work that is available for all of upper management to see a mistake...
MTI meeting co-located with FNA conference will offer cyber security presentation
Joe Coleman, cyber security officer at Bluestreak™, will deliver two technical sessions during the Furnaces North America (FNA 2022) Conference in Indianapolis on October...
Magnetic Shields Ltd orders third Solar Manufacturing vacuum furnace
Magnetic Shields Limited (MSL) of Kent, United Kingdom has selected Solar Manufacturing to supply a Mentor® Pro vacuum furnace to MSL’s subsidiary, MSL Heat...
OWZ Ostalb invests in Endoflex S endothermic generator
OWZ Ostalb bought a new electrically heated EndoFlex™ S endothermic gas generator to replace the company’s old generator.
OWZ Ostalb is a commercial heat-treatment company...
Bodycote increases hot isostatic pressing capacity in the U.S.
Bodycote, a thermal processing services provider, is expanding its hot isostatic pressing (HIP) capability in Greenville, South Carolina, in the United States.
The new HIP...
Nitrex delivers a horizontal nitriding system to Hydro Extrusion Norway
The Nitrex installation base continues to grow and expand at the world’s largest aluminum extrusion profile company Hydro.
While all of the Nitrex nitriding systems at...
