Seco-Warwick Corp., Meadville, Pa., has commissioned an advanced furnace design that provides improved durability for stainless steel heat treating. This vacuum furnace is equipped with a 15-bar gas quenching system and a full HMI data retrieval control package. Its Super Expanite process improves the hardness and corrosion resistance of stainless steel.
The furnace was built for a manufacturer of stainless steel products in the northeast United States. The company supplies furnaces to customers involved with steel, titanium, and aluminum production as well as aluminum recycling, forging, automotive, aerospace, commercial heat treating, HVAC/R, electronics, wind energy, medical equipment, and nuclear industries.
The Seco-Warwick Vacuum Team offers vacuum heat treating furnaces for hardening, tempering, annealing, solution heat treating, brazing, sintering, carburizing, carbonitriding, high vacuum, CVD–graphitizing and degassing. It has built some of the largest and technically advanced vacuum furnaces in operation today, using advanced technologies such as Universal HPQ (High Pressure Quench), PreNit & FineCarb LPC vacuum carburizing, fully automated control systems, and modeling software. Vacuum furnace configurations are available for vertical, horizontal and elevator style furnaces. Both cylindrical and rectangular hot zones with metallic or graphite heating elements are available.
