An international aerospace manufacturer orders two furnaces for its factories in the USA and Singapore. While both are single-chamber vacuum furnaces, they will serve different functions. One will be used for the heat treatment of exotic electrical steels, and the second will be used for annealing parts produced by 3D printing technology.
The furnace purchased for the heat treatment of exotic electrical steels has diffusion vacuum levels and a horizontal chamber. The chamber has the workload size of 24” x 24” x 36” and a 1300 lb. hearth capacity. Additionally, each furnace has a single-chamber, high pressure gas quench heat treat system adaptable to a wide variety of thermal processing applications including annealing, brazing, hardening, LPC and LPN, normalizing, solution heat treating, sintering and tempering.
Each of the furnaces were bought from SECO/WARWICK Vector furnaces lines. This is the manufacturer's first purchase for a US installation from this supplier. The Vector furnaces lines are used in multiple applications within the aerospace sector, including heat treating turbine blades and landing gear, as well as in the aerospace aftermarket to maintain fleets of aircraft.
“SECO/WARWICK Group," commented Maciej Korecki, Vice President of Vacuum Business Segment at SECO/WARWICK, "has delivered hundreds of Vector heat treat systems worldwide, many of which are in steady use supporting the aircraft industry. We offer Vector with either a horizontal or vertical chamber depending on part configuration and the process needs of the customer, and we support each customer all over the world with a dedicated team of aftermarket professionals to keep them running at peak efficiency.”
Vector 3D builds upon the single-chamber vacuum furnace technology to combine the advantages of gas quenching capabilities with the growing requirements of the additive manufacturing market. The result allows customers to perform processes such as sintering, debinding, stress-relieving, aging or solution heat treatment, which are essential for the metal 3D printing sector. It has numerous applications in such industries as aerospace, automotive, medical and energy.
