Lucifer Furnaces Inc., Warrington, Pa., announces that Century Die Co. LLC, Fremont, Ohio, has purchased a Lucifer Red Devil single-chamber box furnace for heat treating mold tooling.
SecoWarwick Compact furnace hardens tool steels at pressures under 15 Bar
Seco/Warwick Retech, Meadville, Pa., introduces the Compact furnace, designed for hardening tool and other steels at gas pressures under 15 Bar.
AFC-Holcroft heat treating systems to process aluminum auto parts
AFC-Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., announces that a Tier 1 automotive supplier has ordered a roller hearth homogenizing furnace and a solution heat treat line for the processing of aluminum auto parts.
Atmosphere control system enables oxide-free annealing of steel, copper, brass
Linde LLC, Murray Hill, N.J., introduces the Hydroflex atmosphere control system, a universal solution for clean and bright oxide-free annealing of steel, stainless steel, copper, bronze, and brass with high reliability and repeatability.
One Minute Mentor: Highly Alloyed Austenitic Stainless Steels
Highly alloyed austenitic stainless steels typically contain larger amounts of molybdenum to provide very good resistance to chloride corrosion.