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Volume 5, Number 3, March 11, 2008
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ASM HTS Events
Users of Vacuum Furnaces!
Don’t Miss the Chance to Register
for the HTS Regional Event
“Principles of Proper Vacuum Furnace Maintenance”
March 18-19, 2008
Doubletree Hotel Anaheim
Anaheim, Calif. USA
Sponsored by ASM Heat Treating Society
This two-day event focused strictly on vacuum furnace maintenance will cover leak detection, pumping systems, pyrometry, hot zone and cooling designs, and preventative maintenance with speakers from Solar Atmospheres, Ipsen Inc., Dry Coolers Inc., Varian Corp., G-M Enterprises, Air Products Inc., Bodycote, Seco/Warwick Corp., and Moog Inc. Aircraft Group. A plant tour at G-M Enterprises follows the seminar. For more information, visit us online.
To learn more about tabletop exhibiting and sponsorship opportunities, or to discuss customizing a program to meet your specific needs, contact:
Kelly Thomas
Exposition Sales Manager
440-338-1733
Don’t miss the HTS Regional Event!
“Induction Heating Technology and Application”
May 15-16, 2008
Sheraton Ambassador Hotel
Monterrey, Mexico
Event organizers: Rob Goldstein (Fluxtrol),
Ruben Excobedo (Inductoheat Inc.),
and Luis Flores (Ajax Tocco Magnethermic Corp.)
For more information, visit us online.
To learn more about tabletop exhibiting and sponsorship opportunities, or to discuss customizing a program to meet your specific needs, contact:
Kelly Thomas
Exposition Sales Manager
440-338-1733
Events of Interest
April 17: Vacuum Carburizing Seminar: Solar Atmospheres of Western PA, Hermitage PA.
Free three-hour seminar on developments and applications of vacuum carburizing including a plant tour. R.S.V.P. and confirmation by Solar is required by April 11; contact Lori Wansack at 866-982-0660, ext. 238.
May 7–9: European Conf. on Heat Treatment 2008 — Innovation in Heat Treatment for Industrial Competitiveness: Verona, Italy. Contact Associazione Italiana di Metallurgia, Milano, Italy
tel: +39 02 7602 1132
fax: +39 02 7602 0551
Learn more.
May 19–21: UIE 2008 (Electricity Applications in a Modern World): AGH Univ. of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland, Sponsored by International Union for Electricity Applications and the Association of Polish Electrical Engineers. Includes more than 14 hours of presentations devoted to induction heating and electromagnetic processing of materials. An exhibit will be held in conjunction with the congress.
Learn more.
May 29–30: Nitriding Symposium 2008: Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Sponsored by Nitrex Metal Inc. International technical conference dedicated exclusively to controlled nitriding and nitrocarburizing. Learn more.
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Industry News
Selas Signs New Midwest Representative
Selas Heat Technology Co. LLC, Montgomeryville, Pa., signed an agreement with Heat Equipment and Technology Inc. (H.E.A.T.) to represent the company in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, and West Virginia. H.E.A.T. provides equipment for thermal processing, such as temperature controls and gas pressure regulators. The company also will provide installation and field service of Selas products.
Learn more.
ABP Induction and Pillar Combine Operations
Induction melting and heating equipment manufacturers ABP Induction LLC, Dortmund, Germany, and Pillar Induction Co. LLC, Brookfield, Wis., combined their operations into ABP Induction LLC. Both companies are owned by CM Acquisitions, a Chicago-based investor. The combination creates one of the world's leading induction companies with nine locations globally.
Learn more.
Despatch Industries Supplies
Furnaces to Goodrich Aerostructures
Despatch Industries, Minneapolis, Minn., will supply two drop-bottom solution heat treat furnaces to the Goodrich Aerostructures Mexicali, Mexico, facility, to increase heat treating capacity. The furnaces will be used to solution heat treat aluminum components for the commercial aircraft industry. The furnaces feature indirect gas-heating systems, and each furnace is provided with a mobile load car, glycol quench tank, and water rinse tank.
Learn more.
Air Liquide Increases Prices of Industrial Gases
Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP, Houston, Tex., increased the prices of bulk industrial gases in the U.S. effective immediately or as existing customer contract terms and conditions allow. Prices increases are between 10 and 15 percent for oxygen and nitrogen; between 15 and 25 percent for carbon dioxide and dry ice; and 15 percent and 25 percent, respectively, for argon and helium. In addition, charges for delivery, materials handling and applicable miscellaneous services will increase accordingly.
Learn more.
Elterma S.A. Names New President
Jeffrey Boswell, Group President for Seco/Warwick S.A. named Grzegorz Paluch to serve as president for Elterma S.A., Swiebodzin, Poland, effective January 1, 2008. Mr. Paluch brings over 18 years of experience in engineering, metallurgy, and business management to the 55 year-old provider of heat treatment equipment and contract manufacturing services. Paluch has a M.Sc. in metallurgy (specialty: metal science and heat treatment) from Technical University in Czestochowa, Poland.
Learn more.
Wheelabrator Celebrates 100-Year Anniversary
Wheelabrator Group, LaGrange, Ga., a world supplier of surface preparation and finishing machinery celebrates its 100-year anniversary in 2008. The company was founded in 1908 by Verne E. Minich in Pittsburgh, Pa. It currently employs more than 1,250 people in 17 countries, and is dedicated to providing customers with tailored, effective business solutions to increase throughput while lowering production time and cost.
Learn more.
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Technical Resources
Properties of
Aluminum Alloys:
Fatigue Data and Effects of Temperature, Product Form, and Process Variables
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DOE Plan Focuses on
Energy Efficiency
The U.S. industrial sector consumes 32% of total energy and over 7-trillion cubic feet (Tcf), or 7,000-trillion Btu (TBtu) of natural gas. A robust Research, Development and Deployment (RD&D) plan for the Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) at the U.S. Department of Energy entitled “Priorities for Clean, Efficient Natural Gas Industrial Applications,” identifies technology development, assessment, and transfer that will improve industrial productivity, raise energy efficiency, and increase U.S. competitiveness in a global market. A partnership among the energy industry, federal government, NGOs, state RD&D entities and educational institutions is critical to gathering the necessary resources to carry out the plan. To read the complete document, visit the Gas Technology Website and look in Hot Topics.
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