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Lucifer hardening furnace handles everyday heat treating
Lucifer Furnaces delivered a high-temperature hardening box furnace to a metal stamping manufacturer in the Southeast United States.
The end user chose a Lucifer furnace...
Thyssenkrupp to retrofit combustion system
Within the scope of a modernization project, thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG will upgrade the combustion system of the FBA 8 galvanizing line, located at...
Focusing on advanced PM manufacturing methods
“Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.” — Walt Disney
How appropriate. Over the years,...
Microstructure and properties of tungsten-heavy alloy connections are formed during sintering with the participation...
Tungsten heavy alloys (THA) are used in the defense industry for subcaliber bullet cores due to their high density and strength. Typically, methods of...
AC7102 Checklist Review, Part 3
Editor’s note » This is the third of a five-part series of articles that will deconstruct the requirements of AC7102. Each article will appear every...
MadgeTech
In the heat-treating game, it’s paramount that temperature and other processes are closely monitored to ensure precision results.
And when those heat-treated parts are headed...
Sonflow selects Seco/Warwick technology
Seco/Warwick will deliver a vacuum furnace to SonFlow for copper brazing adapted to the individual needs of European customers worldwide. A special nozzle design...
Solar Manufacturing installs vacuum furnace
Solar Manufacturing recently shipped and installed a vacuum heat-treating furnace for NexGen Advanced Fuel Systems, an Allied Power Group Company, based in Houston, Texas....
Some of the best and brightest in the industry make up IFHTSE’s officers
Dr. Eva Troell, president
At the beginning of 2019, Dr. Eva Troell of Swerea AB, Mölndal, Sweden, holds the position of IFHTSE president. She has...
Bodycote material improves performance
Extrusion processes are widely used in settings where components can be subject to extreme abrasive wear. Bodycote’s Supermet Fe69 can improve resistance to abrasion...
Improving temperature uniformity during tempering
The final step in any steel heat-treatment quenching process which produces a martensitic microstructure is tempering. Martensite is a metastable phase and is extremely...
Baowu Group places order with Tenova for automatic roll shop
China Baowu Steel Group Corporation Limited, leader in the global steel industry, awarded Tenova, a leading company specialized in sustainable solutions for the green...
Nitrex names VP of sales heat-treating services
Mark Hemsath, former vice president of Seco/Vacuum Technologies LLC, is joining Nitrex’s heat treating services sales division. He will be taking on the role...
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...
Ipsen brings education right to customers
In addition to classroom-style trainings at its manufacturing facility, Ipsen offers on-site Ipsen U courses to accommodate large groups at customer facilities. Ipsen U...
Pemamek announces German subsidiary opening
As a part of the global company strategy and to reinforce its local presence and bring the services closer to its customers, Pemamek Ltd....
Quality and production are a team, not adversaries
Let me be honest about the elephant in the room that often exists in heat treating. In some cases, but certainly not all, quality...
Finding data needed for modeling and simulation
Modeling and simulation have become an important part of the design and manufacturing toolbox. Modeling and simulation are used in forging, casting, machining, forming,...
Q&A with Steve Mueller
Now that you are with Linde, what’s a typical day like for you?
We (Praxair) merged with Linde, and we are now all under the...
Lucifer Furnaces delivers custom box furnace for small loads
Lucifer Furnaces designed a small box furnace reaching 2,300°F for a U.S. manufacturer of RF/microwave components who needed precision heating to anneal its parts...
Gasbarre ships high-temperature pusher furnace
Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems shipped a high-temperature pusher furnace to a supplier of specialty tungsten alloy products in the eastern United States.
The furnace is...
L&L ships second floor-standing box furnace to laboratory
L&L Special Furnace Company shipped a second floor-standing box furnace for heat-treating ceramics and optics used in the medical field to an optical laboratory...
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA and Neota Product Solutions develop sintering partnership
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA and Neota Product Solutions, a custom metal injection molding (MIM) manufacturer in Loveland, Colorado, developed an exclusive sintering partnership.
Neota...
Ceramics Expo 2021 to tackle ‘Clean, Efficient and Electrified Future’
Ceramics Expo will return as planned on August 30–September 1, 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio, changing venues for the first time since its inception in...
