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Enhancing Heat Treat To Drive Automotive Success

As part of their strategic efforts to enhance forging capabilities, Topçesan recently invested in a compact batch-type furnace with a 1,200 kg capacity, designed for nitriding and nitrocarburizing forging dies. These dies are utilized in the production of engine parts, transmission components, and chassis parts for vehicle manufacturing, catering to automotive clients like BMW, Tofaş, Fiat, and ZF Group across Europe and Türkiye.

Utku Inan Sales Representative in Türkiye Nitrex Source: Nitrex

By integrating nitriding and nitrocarburizing processes into their operations, Topçesan aims to prolong the lifespan of their forging dies, increasing component production while reducing tooling costs. The NXK-812 compact batch-type furnace from Nitrex, a heat treat equipment supplier based in Canada, includes an ammonia dissociator; this will be essential for precision controlling nitriding potential, particularly when treating specific alloys that must align with AMS 2759/10 and AMS 2759/12 specifications.

Utku Inan, the Nitrex sales representative in Türkiye, commented, “This marks the first collaboration between Topçesan and Nitrex, and we’re truly excited to embark on this journey together. Our shared goal is to pursue operational excellence and maximize product potential within the forging and automotive supply chain industries.”

Topçesan is making a strategic investment that will not only enhance its in-house capabilities and cost efficiency but also contribute to a more efficient and sustainable future. According to Marcin Stoklosa, technical sales manager at Nitrex, “The operating software of the Nitrex system ensures optimal production media and utility consumption throughout the process, providing the customer with detailed analysis after each operation. This technological advancement underscores our commitment to customer satisfaction and operational efficiency, ensuring superior performance.”

The original press release can be accessed here.

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Motorcycle Manufacturer Embarks on Sustainable Heat Treat Future

April 3, 2024 / ATMOSPHERE AIR FURNACES NEWS, MANUFACTURING HEAT TREAT, MANUFACTURING HEAT TREAT NEWS, NITRIDING, NITRIDING NEWS, NITROCARBURIZING NEWS

Guangdong Tayo Motorcycle Technology Co. Ltd., a Chinese manufacturer of motorcycles and bicycles, has invested in a nitriding/nitrocarburizing system, increasing sustainability and growth for its new production facility in Jiangmen City, located in southern China’s Guangdong province.

Heat treat solutions company Nitrex was commissioned to deliver a comprehensive turnkey system, geared towards enhancing the performance and durability of multiple components within Guangdong Tayo Motorcycle, including those for the brands Haojiang, Daye, Shengshi, and Qidian.

Nikola Dzepina
Nitrex Regional Manager – Asia
Source: NITREX

Nikola Dzepina, Nitrex account executive, said, “Our partnership with Guangdong Tayo Motorcycle Technology Co. Ltd. will help them in fulfilling their mission of delivering top-notch, highly durable, and reliable motorcycles and bicycles to their global customer base.”

As part of their development strategy, Guangdong Tayo Motorcycle has placed sustainability, product quality, service excellence, and market expansion at the heart of their mission. Paving the way for superior motorcycles and bicycles, the company evaluated various options and ultimately selected Nitrex for its precision-controlled processes, process stability and repeatability, equipment longevity and reliability, and commitment to environmental friendliness.

The turnkey system comprises a large pit-type furnace, model NX-1225, with a 4000-kg load capacity and the Nitreg® controlled nitriding and Nitreg®-C nitrocarburizing technologies. These surface treatments augment the properties of motorcycle and bicycle metal components, significantly enhancing wear resistance and providing protection against rust and corrosion. Additionally, the system features an ammonia dryer and accelerated cooling system, facilitating the delivery of high-purity ammonia and fast cycle times to optimize production efficiency.

Tao Liu, sales manager at Nitrex China, emphasized, “This system’s exceptional reliability, engineered for longevity with minimal maintenance requirements and low utility and production media consumption costs, aligns perfectly with Guangdong Tayo Motorcycle’s vision for a sustainable future.”

This press release is available in its original form here.

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Aluminum Extrusion Operations Bring Nitriding In-House

March 14, 2024 / ALUMINUM PROCESSING NEWS, ATMOSPHERE AIR FURNACES NEWS, AUTOMOTIVE HEAT TREAT, AUTOMOTIVE HEAT TREAT TECHNICAL CONTENT, FEATURED NEWS, MANUFACTURING HEAT TREAT NEWS, NITRIDING, NITRIDING NEWS

Extral SP. Z o.o., a Polish company specializing in aluminum extrusions, has bolstered its manufacturing capabilities to better serve the construction, automobile, and machinery industries. Alongside acquiring a new aluminum extrusion press, the company ordered a nitriding system to nitride H11 and H13 extrusion dies of various sizes.

The Nitrex turnkey nitriding system includes an NX-1015 pit-type furnace with a 2-ton (4410-lb) load capacity and NITREG® technology, offering nitriding treatments that optimize die performance and throughput while concurrently reducing tooling costs.

This investment coincides with Extral’s expansion of its operational footprint in Poland, including the construction of a new building to house the extrusion press and furnace. This expansion enables the company to diversify its range of extruded products while maintaining a focus on sustainability and energy efficiency. The new nitriding installation will contribute to these objectives by providing more efficient use of process gases and electricity.

Marcin Stokłosa
Project Manager
Nitrex Poland
Source: LinkedIn.com

Previously, Extral outsourced its nitriding operations to a local heat treater, due to quality issues encountered with an underperforming in-house nitriding unit. However, this latest investment enables them to bring nitriding operations back in-house, ensuring better control over the quality and consistency of their nitrided dies while also benefiting from expedited turnaround times.

Marcin Stoklosa, project manager at Nitrex, said, “Working with Extral on this project has been a pleasure. . . . Seeing customers invest in their business and achieve their goals, especially when it aligns with our values of innovation and sustainability, is always rewarding.”

This press release is available in its original form here.

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HVAC Manufacturer To Increase CAB Capabilities

November 27, 2023 / ATMOSPHERE AIR FURNACES NEWS, FEATURED NEWS, MANUFACTURING HEAT TREAT, NITRIDING

An HVAC manufacturer contracted a new controlled atmosphere brazing furnace. With this system, the company anticipates gains in both productivity and energy efficiency and reduction in their plant’s overall carbon footprint.

The contract for the system was awarded to SECO/WARWICK’s American subsidiary.

“Their manufacturing line is not a smooth, even flow of identical parts," remarked Marcus Lord, managing director at SECO/WARWICK USA, "Instead, part flow is intermittent and variable sizes. It is why we made the Active Only® CAB Furnace, to meet just such a demand.”

The operating sequence of the Active Only^® CAB furnace is divided into stages, including: loading, drying in the dryer, nitrogen purging in the purging chamber, heating and brazing in a proprietary convection chamber, pre-cooling in the cooling chamber with an air-jacket, and the final direct air cooling in the final cooling chamber.

This semi-continuous furnace system will operate on a part-time basis; it will also allow for variable heating and cooling rates, depending on indexing times. Additionally, the furnace can braze the widest variety of heat exchangers when lower total production requirements are needed.

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Distortion Engineering of Gears

August 25, 2016 / FEATURED NEWS, MANUFACTURING HEAT TREAT, NITRIDING

Source: Gearsolutions.com

THE CAUSES FOR DISTORTION OF GEARS are complex and the heat treatment process has been named as a main contributing factor. However, the truth is, all the manufacturing steps prior to and after heat treating also make a contribution to distortion. Nevertheless, any thermal operations carried out on gears may trigger and reveal the hidden distortion potential induced by manufacturing. An interesting approach of “distortion engineering” was established by the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) at Bremen University.

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