Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Ill., recently shipped eight vacuum heat-treating systems to customers in Costa Rica, India, Germany, and the United States, where the equipment will be used to support the additive manufacturing, aerospace, medical, MIM, and tooling industries.
Continue readingHarper and Ferrite partner to expand solutions for industrial microwave heating
Harper International, Buffalo, N.Y., announces that it is partnering with Ferrite Microwave Technologies, Nashua, N.H., to utilize FMT’s high-power microwave heating technology to complement its product portfolio of traditional gas and electric fired furnaces.
Continue readingJ.L. Becker IQ heat treating furnace line processes workloads up to 4000 pounds
J.L. Becker, a Gasbarre Furnace Group Company, Plymouth, Mich., recently manufactured, shipped, and commissioned a complete IQ furnace line at the East Carolina Metal Treating facility in Raleigh, N.C.
Continue readingALD SyncroTherm compact heat treating system supports manufacture of aerospace parts
ALD Vacuum Systems Inc., Wixom, Mich., has received a purchase order from a North American based aerospace manufacturer for a SyncroTherm brand, fully integrated vacuum heat treating system.
Continue readingQuesTek CEO & ASM Fellow Aziz Asphahani elected to National Academy of Engineering
QuesTek Innovations LLC, Evanston, Ill., announces that Dr. Aziz Asphahani, Questek President & Chief Executive Officer and a Fellow of ASM International, has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Low-Temperature Surface Hardening of Stainless Steel
The graph shows a schematic time-temperature-transformation (TTT) diagram of austenite with a high nitrogen or carbon content. In order to prevent the development of chromium nitrides/carbides, a long-time low-temperature treatment could be applied.
Continue readingWisconsin Oven purchases 130,000 square feet of manufacturing space from Plymouth Tube
Wisconsin Oven, East Troy, announces that the company has closed on a property purchase from Plymouth Tube.
Continue readingArconic Very Thick Plate Stretcher enables larger aluminum and Al-Li wing ribs and frames
Arconic, New York, announces that the installation of the Very Thick Plate Stretcher has been completed at the company’s facility in Davenport, Iowa.
Continue readingAFC-Holcroft provides roller hearth annealing furnace to automotive systems producer
AFC-Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., announces that a leading global supplier of automotive systems and components has purchased a new roller hearth annealing furnace to be installed in a plant in the Southeast region of the United States.
Continue readingSeco-Warwick supplies PTE muffle belt furnace for heat treating fasteners
Seco-Warwick, Meadville, Pa., reports that it will supply a type ATE technology line consisting of a PTE muffle belt furnace designed primarily for carbonitriding, washing, and annealing, to a Polish manufacturer of screws for wood, metal, and plastic.
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