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Harper International, Buffalo, N.Y., has successfully completed factory acceptance testing of a new continuous, graphite rotary tube furnace at 2000°C for a global chemical manufacturer. The furnace will process refractory metal powders in hydrogen and inert atmospheres.

Accurate Brazing, New Hampshire, a provider of specialized heat-treating solutions will add a second hot isostatic press unit in 2021 to its Greenville, SC facility. The model QIH 122 M URC press is equipped with the Quintus proprietary uniform rapid cooling (URC) feature, which combines HIP and heat treatment in a single process.

Lucifer Furnaces, Pennsylvania, has supplied a top loading furnace to a leading tooling manufacturer. This joins a second Lucifer furnace already in use for the production of dies to cut fabric to make N95 masks for the medical industry. These furnaces are completely wired, assembled, and shipped ready for connection to a main power supply.

Sulfur content plays a major role in improving the fatigue strength of ferrite-pearlite steels. Finely dispersed MnS plays an active role in providing transformation initiation sites for ferrite within austenite grains and interrupts the formation of large pearlite.

Ipsen, Illinois, delivered a Turbo2Treater vacuum furnace specially designed for carburizing and solution nitriding to Vacu Braze, Pennsylvania - a specialty commercial heat-treating facility. The Turbo2Treater is used to harden steels with Ipsen's patented solution nitriding process which increases surface hardness and improves resistance against wear, erosion and cavitation for parts ranging from surgical instruments to household appliances.

Nitrex, Nevada, has received certification from Honeywell for copper plating services. The copper plating supplied will mask selected areas of the metal part to prevent nitriding of the substrate surface. Honeywell is a global leader of aerospace parts and services supplying the commercial, defense, and space aircraft industries.