A leading supplier of fasteners to the automotive industry recently commissioned a cast link belt furnace for the refinement of high-strength steel screws and nuts.
AICHELIN, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, will deliver the heat treating plant by December 2018 to fastener-maker Bulten’s Swedish Hallstahamar site. This is the second industrial furnace plant for this facility. The plant line, produced in Austria, measures over 260 feet (80 m) long and weighs nearly 40,000 pounds (over 50,000 counting liquids and components).
The electrically heated high-temperature hardening furnace and the protective-gas-tight tempering furnace will be delivered with oil or emulsion hardening baths. Measuring and switching systems are included, as well as the process control system FOCOS 4.0 for the new plant (as well as an update of the data acquisition of the existing plant) and a protective gas generator.
