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January 2019
Can-Eng commissions mesh belt furnace overseas
Can-Eng Furnaces has commissioned a continuous mesh belt heat-treat system for the production of high-quality automotive fasteners in Italy.
This project in the Piedmont region of...
Paulo Products celebrates milestone 75th anniversary
St. Louis, Missouri-based Paulo Products Company observes its 75th year in business as a thermal processor of critical components used in a wide array...
U.S. manufacturer orders ZeroFlow® gas nitriding furnace
A growing American manufacturer has recently ordered a new precision gas nitriding furnace with ZeroFlow® from Seco/Vacuum (SVT), a Seco/Warwick Group company. The furnace...
Customized tank will quench multiple metal stamping dies
L&L Special Furnace Co., Inc., has supplied a custom designed and manufactured oil quench tank to a metal stamping manufacturer in the Midwest. The...
eldec revamps manufacturing website
In an effort to serve customers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico better, eldec LLC unveiled a new website for manufacturing professionals who...
Heat Treat 19 now accepting technical papers
Heat Treat 19, the 30th Heat Treating Society Conference & Exposition, is October 15-17, 2019, in Detroit, Michigan. Position your research and organization as...
NBR Cooling Systems selects CAB system from Seco/Warwick
NBR Cooling Systems, an independent heat exchanger manufacturer for the domestic automobile industry, recently purchased a Seco/Warwick signature CAB Brazing system for automotive heat...
ASM International offers new slate of courses for 2019
In the ever-changing and expanding market of heat-treating, it is important to stay up to date with the newest procedures and trends.
Stay current and...
100-year-old Proos Manufacturing under new ownership
Grand Rapids, Michigan-based, Proos Manufacturing has announced the completion of the company’s sale to Bryan Howard. In addition to the sale, Proos also made...
Solar Manufacturing installs GFQVHP for Arizona company
Solar Manufacturing has successfully completed the installation and startup of a 100-ton force Vacuum Hot Press that includes a 2-Bar Gas Fan Quench cooling...
Registration opens for Metal Injection Molding Conference
Registration has opened for MIM2019: International Conference on Injection Molding of Metals, Ceramics and Carbides — the only international powder and metal injection molding...
Seco/Warwick’s CAB technology fuels company in India
Karnavati Car Air Conditioners Pvt. Ltd, Ahmedabad (KCPL) will produce a wide variety of high-quality products with the addition of Seco/Warwick Controlled Atmosphere Brazing...
Grieve No. 839 oven handles high-temp batch paint baking
Grieve No. 839 is an electrically heated, 850°F walk-in oven, currently used for heat-treating and high-temperature batch paint baking. Workspace dimensions measure 72” W...
Solar Atmospheres’ Paponetti Southeast sales manager
Solar Atmospheres’ South Carolina facility announces that Mike Paponetti has accepted the position of sales manager. Before accepting this position, Paponetti was the regional...
Bodycote opens new facility, announces further expansion
Bodycote, the world’s largest provider of heat treatments and specialist thermal processing services, held an official opening ceremony recently at its new facility on...
Mazak acquires MegaStir to advance HYBRID technology
Mazak Corporation has announced its acquisition of MegaStir, a supplier of friction stir welding (FSW) tools and technology located in Provo, Utah. With the...
Lindberg/MPH ships electric mesh belt conveyor furnace
Lindberg/MPH announced the shipment of one continuous mesh belt conveyor furnace to the computer market. This conveyor furnace is configured for soldering process applications...
The Advantages of an All-Metal Vacuum Furnace Hot Zone
For more than 70 years, the vacuum furnace has been available for metal processing requirements, and is widely accepted as the ideal equipment for...
IHEA offers hands-on training in Atlanta
The Industrial Heating Equipment Association (IHEA), the Chemical Coaters Association International (CCAI), Products Finishing magazine, and Southern Company have teamed up to provide a...
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...
Super Systems Incorporated
It might be a cliché, but the path to a successful business can often be summed up in six words: Be good at what...
Freezing Out the Competition
Most companies are looking for a secret that can help them keep a step ahead of the competition — a little edge to run...
Q&A with Guido Locatelli
Tell us about your company.
The company was established in 1984 near Milan, Italy, in the city of Caravaggio, and since its inception the headquarters...
Allocating space for case hardening furnaces
When selecting neutral or case hardening furnaces that require pits and have vertically mounted radiant tubes, facility managers must make sure that the equipment...
An argument in support of Nadcap
I think it is safe to assume that the majority of Thermal Processing readers have, in some capacity and at some point in their...
Grieve offers 2,200º F electric inert atmosphere furnace
No. 854 is a special high-temperature, 2,200º F electrically-heated, inert atmosphere floor furnace from Grieve.
The oven is currently used for various heat-treating applications at...
Roger A. Jones, FASM, honored as CEO Emeritus
Solar Atmospheres recently awarded the title of CEO Emeritus to Roger A. Jones, FASM.
The honorary title was conferred by the company, and announces his...
Thermal Product Solutions ships seven Gruenberg Glassware drying ovens
Thermal Product Solutions announced the shipment of seven Gruenberg Glassware drying ovens to a University in the Midwest.
These Gruenberg ovens have a maximum temperature rating of 650° F...
