Managing Director
SECO/WARWICK USA
A Virginia manufacturer of high-quality plumbing tube recently commissioned a new heat treat furnace, expanding the plant’s capabilities to include aluminum extrusions. This is the first new aluminum processing equipment installation at the plant.
The supplier, SECO/WARWICK, noted that the vertical orientation of the work being heat treated is what differentiates this from others. The design allows the customer to maintain an efficient, semi-continuous process with little downtime between batches by staging loads in the drywells. The major benefit of this design is that it will allow the manufacturer to drop extrusions into the quench within 10 seconds after heat treating and soak.
Keith Boeckenhauer, managing director of SECO/WARWICK USA, commented that the company "has patented many standard processes related to aluminum heat treatment and controlled atmosphere brazing, [and is able. . .] to apply innovative designs to custom requirements."
The furnace was designed and built in Pennsylvania.
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