Among the many transactions involving the contracting, purchasing, selling, shipment and delivery of heat treat systems, equipment or services over the past few weeks, we thought the following would be of interest to our readers.
- (Manufacturing Heat Treat News) A commercial heat treater recently purchased a TITAN H6 to expand production capacity and meet customer demands. Ipsen USA supplied the vacuum furnace to Rockford Heat Treaters (RHT) where it will join a complete atmosphere line of seven integral quench furnaces with ancillary washers and tempers, more than a dozen draw furnaces, a VFS(r) vacuum furnace and four other vacuum furnaces.
- (Automotive Heat Treat News) A gas-fired immersion lead melting furnace has been delivered to expand the operations of a manufacturer in the battery industry. The melting and holding furnace will be used in the production of lead plates for automotive batteries. Lindberg/MPH was the supplier of the furnace. In addition, Lindberg/MPH announced the shipment of a Temperite box furnace and a Treet-All box furnace to the maritime industry. The box furnaces are designed to be used in a stacked configuration or stand alone.
- (Manufacturing Heat Treat News) A compact remote transformer and low profile heating inductor were recently shipped to a foresty products manufacturer. Ajax TOCCO Magnethermic®, a subsidiary of ParkOhio Holdings Corp.®, supplied the equipment to be used for preheating prior to GMAW. The customer had a need to be able to he
Wisconsin Oven ships sand core drying ovens at a rotating weldment with limited space between welds. Existing weld preheat inductors that roll on top of the weldment would not fit between the weldments, forcing the customer to rely on combustion heating technology (torches). In this kit, the heating inductor floats above the weldment without making contact.
- (Manufacturing Heat Treat News) Two natural gas-fired batch ovens have been delivered to the foundry industry. The batch ovens, supplied by Wisconsin Oven Corporation, will be used for drying sand cores used in the casting process of a variety of parts. The sand core dryers have the capability to dry water and resin from 6,000 pounds of sand cores and a 600-pound steel load car from 70°F to 450°F within 2 hours.
Heat Treat Today finds the robust activity of heat treatment equipment sales and acquisitions an exciting topic to report on and would be interested in your supplier news tips. Please send any information you feel may be of interest to readers of Heat Treat Today to the editor at editor@heattreattoday.com.
