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February 2022
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...
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...
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...
Industrial automation and labor in heat treating
There is a changing landscape on two fronts in the thermal processing market. Without a doubt, there are technological opportunities that companies can take...
93 years of helping heat treaters worldwide
It’s hard to believe that an industry organization has been around for 93 years, but that’s how long the Industrial Heating Equipment Association has...
Sampling of quench oil for proactive maintenance
In this column, I will discuss the sampling of quench oil for quarterly checks as required by many internal and external auditing agencies (CQI-9,...
Heat transfer: Convection’s reach
Many years ago, as a mechanical engineering undergraduate student, an analogy was offered to help explain the interplay between convection and conduction in heat...
A letter from IFHTSE’s outgoing president
Dear Colleagues and Friends:
Now 2021 has come to its end, it is time for a look back on the past two years, which were...
SECO/WARWICK
In the everchanging world of heat treating, it’s vitally important that a company stays on top of the latest technologies and applications in order...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
