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Heat Treat Supplier To Provide Andritz Group With Vertical Vacuum Furnace

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Maciej Korecki
Vice President of Business of the Vacuum Furnace Segment
SECO/WARWICK

The Andritz Group, a manufacturer of complete lines for cold-rolled strip production and processing, has ordered a vertical vacuum furnace. The furnace for gas quenching processes will help produce consistent product quality.

SECO/WARWICK Group , a manufacturer with North American  locations, equipped the Vector® furnace with a graphite chamber, gas cooling system, and a rotating hearth. The Andritz Group, with this system, adds to their heat treat capabilities in hydraulic power, pulp, and paper as well as metals processing industries.

This is the first vacuum furnace manufactured in the Tianjin facility of the SECO/WARWICK Group. “We have already worked with the Andritz Group, but this time it is the first contract with our Chinese branch. The Vector furnace is manufactured in our Chinese factory, which significantly shortens the solution’s delivery time to the customer," says Maciej Korecki, vice president of the Vacuum Products Segment at SECO/WARWICK Group.

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Heat Treater’s New Switch Saves Production Run Time

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HTD Size-PR LogoSolar Atmospheres in Souderton, Pa, has had an automatic disconnect switch installed into a production car bottom vacuum furnace. The switch saves time by eliminating the manual maneuver of disconnecting and then re-connecting the power terminal bars at each end of the car bottom during each production run.

The switch, from Solar Manufacturing, Inc., is rated for 1,000 amps, 50V AC per pole, and the switches are installed at each end of the hot zone. Not only have the disconnect switches performed as well as expected since installation at Solar Atmospheres Souderton, PA, location, but they also have improved production.

Source: Solar Atmospheres

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General Atomics Heat Treats 7 Modules for Superconducting Magnet

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HTD Size-PR LogoGeneral Atomics has heat treated the seventh and final module for a large superconducting magnet for ITER, a multi-national science experiment, with a vacuum furnace from a heat treat furnace supplier in Pennsylvania.

In order to convert the 6 km long stainless-steel-jacketed coil of Niobium-Tin conductors into superconductors for the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) experiment, each of these 4-meter by 2-meter 110-ton solenoid sections had to be heat treated for five weeks, exceeding 650°C (1202°F) at its peak. The heat treatment served to alloy the Niobium and Tin strands together into Nb3Sn, which becomes a superconductor when chilled with liquid helium to 4 Kelvin.

No such heat-treating furnaces existed, so General Atomics turned to SECO/VACUUM, a SECO/WARWICK Group company in Meadville, PA, to build a heat-treating furnace large enough to fit these solenoids and packed with all the technology needed to meet the strict quality control standards of this experiment.

Peter Zawistowski
Managing Director
SECO/VACUUM TECHNOLOGIES, USA
Source: secowarwick.com

"SECO/WARWICK Group did a great job designing in backup systems and robust design," commented Nikolai Norausky, program manager at General Atomics. "Any time we had questions or needed maintenance they were there to help."

The vacuum furnace that the supplier provided had to perform multiple tasks, including to bake off residual impurities from coil fabrication and to anneal internal stresses introduced at different stages of part fabrication. “General Atomics put so much time and money into these coils we really didn’t have any room for error," added Peter Zawistowski, managing director of SECO/VACUUM, "so nearly every component had to be doubly redundant."

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Heat Treat Furnaces To Improve Hardening Capabilities for Aalberts

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Alberto Martin
Sales Director -- Spain
Aalberts surface technologies TEY

HTD Size-PR LogoInternational manufacturer Aalberts surface technologies Group will receive two vacuum furnaces to the group’s Spanish branch in País Vasco. The system on order solves the manufacturer's problem with hardening large dimension elements.

The manufacturer mainly operates in the automotive industry, as well as the machine industry and, with this order, has signed its tenth contract with international furnace supplier, SECO/WARWICK. Aalberts is ordering the heat treat furnace provider's horizontal retort furnace for high-efficiency tempering with vacuum purging and the Vector® vacuum furnace. The Vector, with a useful working space of 600mm x 600mm x 900mm will increase the efficiency of the current hardening plant, improving the economics of hardening processes. The retort furnace will significantly increase the processing capacity of the current hardening plant for tempering processes.

Once again, SECO/WARWICK equipment will contribute to increasing the efficiency of our entire Group," said Alberto Martin, director of Sales --- Spain at Aalberts surface technologies TEY. Aalberts surface technologies is a global company with over 80 years of experience, operating in over 70 countries.

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Heat Treat IQ System for Härtewerk Chemnitz Hardening Plant

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Kai Werlitz
Technical Operations Manager
Härtewerk Chemnitz GmbH
Source: Härtewerk Chemnitz

Härtewerk Chemnitz GmbH, a large German commercial hardening plant (Lohnhärterei), has purchased a horizontal, two-chamber furnace low-pressure carburizing and oil quenching system from an international heat treat solutions provider. In the German plant, the integral quench system will replace legacy atmosphere technology and expand their capabilities for mass-producing parts.

This is the first SECO/WARWICK furnace equipped with vacuum heating at the heat treater's German plant and the first Super IQ solution in Germany. The system has a heating chamber, loading and unloading vestibule, and a quenching bath. The equipment in the system enables users to perform a variety of heat treatment processes, heat, and chemical treatment, as well as low-pressure carburizing and quenching.

"The machines we have worked with so far had required time-consuming and expensive preparation, especially when the equipment was not at the right temperature," commented Kai Werlitz, technical operations manager at Härtewerk Chemnitz GmbH. "The Super IQ furnace that we have ordered eliminates not only these difficulties but also enables efficient heat treatment with very high repeatability and uniformity of the carburized layer, which with atmospheric furnaces was only possible to a limited extent."

The heat treater's Chemnitz and Chomutov plants provide a wide range of services related to metal heat treatment and focus on Germany and Europe's mechanical engineering, automotive, and metalworking industries.

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Global Power Tech Leader Will Use Heat Treat Furnace for Nuclear Applications

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A global leader in power technologies purchased a vacuum furnace from a North American furnace provider. The equipment will be used for specialized nuclear operations.

Peter Zawistowski
Managing Director
SECO/VACUUM TECHNOLOGIES, USA
Source: secowarwick.com

SECO/VACUUM, a SECO/WARWICK Group company, was awarded the order for the 2-bar Vector®, a single chamber high-pressure quench vacuum furnace. It will be used for a variety of heat treating processes, including hardening of tool steels as well as high vacuum sintering and annealing. The furnace design will achieve deep vacuum levels, allowing the customer to process materials for nuclear applications. The new Vector will replace an older furnace, adding significantly more capabilities and process flexibility.

"I’m very proud of how our SECO/VISORY group managed this relationship," noted Peter Zawistowski, managing director of SECO/VACUUM. "Our product management and engineering staff collaborated with the customer’s engineering and commercialization teams for over a year to develop a proposal for the specialized capabilities they required."

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Horizontal Nitriding System Delivered at Hydro Heat Treat Location

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Marcin Stokłosa
Project Manager
Nitrex Poland
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A global aluminum and energy company, Hydro Extrusion Norway, recently received a horizontal nitriding system, configured to replace an old decommissioned furnace

This latest delivery by Nitrex is the only one of its kind at Hydro facilities globally; the rest are pit-type furnaces. The nitriding equipment for Hydro Extrusion Norway in Magnor, Norway will integrate with the existing infrastructure of the plant as well as fit in the specific floor space allocation.

"Before placing the order, Hydro did its due diligence – visiting extrusion facilities with Nitrex equipment to get user opinions on the solution including the technology, die performance, extruded profile quality, and our support services," adds Marcin Stokłosa, project manager at Nitrex. "Moreover, the test trials produced very good results."

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Redline Chambers Joins Heat Treat Product Provider

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Source: Thermal Product Solutions

Redline Chambers, a U.S. manufacturer of vacuum chambers and systems for the aerospace, defense, energy, electronics, and medical industries, has been acquired by a global provider of thermal processing products and test solutions.

Located in Salt Lake City, UT and specializing in vacuum technology and leak testing solutions, Redline Chambers will support the continued growth of Thermal Product Solutions, LLC (TPS), within the vacuum chamber market.

Greg Jennings
President and CEO
Thermal Product Solutions, LLC
Source: Thermal Product Solutions

TPS product offering for thermal processing and test solutions includes Baker Furnace, Blue M, Gruenberg, Tenney, Lindberg, MPH, Wisconsin Oven, and now Redline Chambers. "Redline’s ability to engineer and manufacture vacuum chambers and systems will bolster TPS’s ability to serve customers in this expanding market," commented Greg Jennings, president and CEO of TPS.

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Aerospace Manufacturer Awaits Heat Treat Vacuum Furnace

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Mark Hemsath
Vice President
of Sales, Americas
Nitrex Heat
Treating Services

An aircraft provider of small and large commercial and military jet engines will receive a new vertical vacuum furnace, measuring 84" x 84" with a 6,000 lb. load capacity and operating temperatures up to 2500°F, which will be used for heavy and large-cross section parts and processing high-stacked loads, such as tall engine components.

Nitrex Vacuum Furnaces will deliver the vertical vacuum furnace to this major engine maintenance, repair, and overhaul company in South America. The manufacturer will use the furnace to heat treat many aerospace components with processes including annealing and stress relief. “Shipment of this furnace system, after a number of COVID-related delays, was a milestone for Nitrex,” Mark Hemsath, vice president of Sales and acting general manager at Nitrex Heat Treating Services, Americas said.

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Vacuum Heat Treat Capabilities Expand for Magnetic Shields Ltd

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Colin Woolger, Director, MSL Heat Treatment
Source: LinkedIn

A U.S. manufacturer of heat treat furnaces will supply a new vacuum furnace to the heat treat subsidiary of Magnetic Shields Limited (MSL) of Kent, United Kingdom. MSL Heat Treatment will use this furnace in the manufacture of medical and scientific devices.

The partnership between Solar Manufacturing and MSL began in 2016, and this new Mentor® Pro vacuum furnace (HFL-3036-2IQ) will be manufactured in accordance with CE standards including the vacuum chamber being built to ASME/UKCA requirements.

This furnace has a working hot zone area of 18” wide x 18” high x 36” deep (457mm x 457mm x 914mm) with a weight capacity of 1,000 pounds (455 kgs). It will be able to reach temperatures up to 2400°F (1315°C) and will feature a three gas partial pressure system and an internal quench system designed for 2-bar (15 PSIG) positive pressure quenching.

"MSL Heat Treatment specialize in brazing and controlled heat treatment for medical and scientific applications," Colin Woolger, director of MSL Heat Treatment added, "This latest furnace [. . .] will enable us to continue to provide high quality solutions to our growing customer base. The inclusion of hydrogen as a process gas also allows us to utilize the furnace for magnetic annealing to a very high specification."

"[We're] pleased to continue working with MSL as a supplier for their thermal processing needs," stated Rick Jones, vice president of International Sales at Solar Manufacturing. This will be the third vacuum furnace that the heat treat furnace provider will supply to MSL Heat Treatment.

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