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.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: The influence of sulfur content on the fatigue behavior of ferrite-pearlite steels
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.
Continue readingIpsen delivers Turbo2Treater vacuum furnace to Vacu Braze
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.
Continue readingNitrex receives supplier approval from Honeywell
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.
Continue readingSolar Atmospheres vacuum hardens 16,000 pound aluminum extrusion liner
Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania, Hermitage, successfully vacuum hardened one of the largest aluminum extrusion liners ever produced by Lake Park Tool and Machine located in Youngstown Ohio. The 10 bar vacuum furnace was completed by Solar Manufacturing and is one of the fastest cooling large vacuum furnaces in the industry.
Continue readingThe Mint of Poland orders second furnace from Seco/Warwick
Seco/Warwick, Poland, has supplied a second Vector vacuum furnace to The Mint of Poland, a producer of circulation and collector coins for the National Bank of Poland. The historic 250 year-old-plus institutions will begin producing stamps and coins with the latest Seco/Warwick solution. The latest furnace is primarily intended to increase the efficiency of the mint.
Continue readingResearchers use neutrons to study weld-induced stress relief in energy applications
The U.S. Department of Energy has a team of researchers exploring how a weld is put together atom by atom in order to unlock the key to making crack-free welds. The goal is to investigate the performance of welds used to build large thermal energy storage tanks at concentrating solar plants—facilities with vast networks of mirrors used to collect solar energy, some stretching several million square feet in size.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: The difference in microstructure by controlled and conventional rolling
The temperature of thermomechanical treatment affects grain size via the transformation of recrystallized austenite and its subsequent transformation to ferrite and pearlite. Lowering the forging finish temperature causes the final grain size to become smaller and improves the impact toughness.
Continue readingNitrex supplies Alugen Aluminum with nitriding system
Nitrex Metal Inc., Montreal, has supplied the Turkish aluminum extrusion company, Alugen Aluminium, with a high-performance compact nitriding/nitrocarburizing system allowing the company to bring all manufacturing operations in-house for more optimal work planning and quality control. Founded in 2012, Alugen is a dynamic company and the only business of its kind in Turkey operating in a free trade zone, with customers in various European countries.
Continue readingSteel Authority of India issues final acceptance certificate to CAN-ENG furnaces
CAN-ENG Furnaces International LTD has been issued the Final Acceptance Certificate (FAC) for the Roller Hearth Plate Quench and Temper system by the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). The system is designed to heat treat a wide range of plates from 6 mm to 100 mm thickness x 3,000 mm wide and lengths up to 13,000 mm long in a wide variety of grades for commercial and non-commercial applications.
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