Aerospace, Automotive, Commercial Heat Treating, Medical and MIM Industries Purchase Equipment
Leading companies in the aerospace, automotive, commercial heat treating, medical, and metal injection molding industries received shipment of 25 furnaces during the last three months of 2016 from Ipsen, one of North America’s leading suppliers of industrial heat treating furnaces. Furnaces were received at heat treat facilities in six counties and 13 U.S. states and ranged in design from custom-built debinding and sintering furnace to a horizontal vacuum furnace (MetalMaster®) with 20,000-pound (9,072 kg) load capacity.
Newly received units also included an atmosphere washer and loader and several TITAN® vacuum furnaces equipped with PdMetrics® predictive maintenance software designed to optimize equipment performance and minimize downtime. Other vacuum furnaces received included horizontal and vertical MetalMaster furnaces, TITAN DS (debinding and sintering) furnaces, a VerticalTurbo, a TITAN LT (low-temperature), a horizontal TurboTreater® and an HEQ (horizontal external quench) from the VFS® product line.
The company’s global ICS (Ipsen Customer Service) Team facilitated system installations, as well as provided expert training, startup assistance and 360° support throughout the entire life span of the equipment for any brand.
To meet Schafer Gear Works’ growing demand for high-precision commercial aviation shafts and gears, the company recently moved its Fort Wayne, Ind., operations to its larger production facility in South Bend, Ind. “Acquisition of new, state-of-the-art equipment at our South Bend plant and the ability to better leverage our gear manufacturing expertise led to the transfer,” said Paresh Shah, operations manager for the South Bend facility. The transition was seamless and the plant now produces precision-critical shafts and small-diameter gears with tolerances to 0.0004” and microfinishes to 16 RMS.
