Solar Manufacturing recently shipped a Mentor® vacuum furnace to a customer specializing in tool and die. The furnace will primarily be used to harden tool steels.
The customer has purchased a total of three furnaces from Solar Manufacturing and this is their first Mentor.
The Mentor features a graphite-insulated hot zone measuring 12” wide x 12” high x 18” deep, capable of operating temperatures up to 2,400°F, and a load weight capacity up to 250 pounds. The furnace includes the SolarVac® Essentials PLC-based control system with HMI/industrial PC using Wonderware supervisory software for recipe storage, alarm management, and data acquisition functions.
“For years, the heat-treaters have been requesting a compact, yet rugged furnace that would efficiently process smaller workloads,” said Pete Reh, vice president of sales. “We have many Mentor customers who utilize these heat-treating furnaces for production especially in additive manufacturing and medical industries.”
Solar Manufacturing designs and manufactures a wide variety of vacuum heat treating, sintering, and brazing furnaces and offers replacement hot zones, spare parts, and professional service.
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