Solar Atmospheres, Greenville, S.C., announces that it has ordered a new 12-foot car-bottom vacuum furnace with advanced pumping system and rapid cooling capability manufactured by sister company Solar Manufacturing, Hermitage, Pa.
Nitrex installs nitrocarburizing system for treating aluminum profiles and extrusions
Nitrex Metal, St. Laurent, Canada, announces that it has delivered and installed a Nitrex nitrocarburizing system for a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility on a greenfield site in northwestern Romania for the Swiss corporation Alu Menziken Extrusion AG, a manufacturer of aluminum profiles and complex extrusion press products.
Paulo acquires HIP to combine heat treating and hot isostatic pressing of 3D printed products
Paulo Heat Treating, Willoughby, Ohio, will add hot isostatic pressing to its thermal processing services with the acquisition of a hot isostatic press from Quintus Technologies.
Ajax Tocco induction heat treating lines process upset tubing at 15 to 20 tons per hour
Ajax Tocco Magnethermic, Warren, Ohio, announces the delivery of two large induction heat-treating quench and temper lines to facilities in the United States that process upset tubing inline.
One Minute Mentor: Austenitizing Temperature and Time
As austenitizing temperature increases, so does the matrix carbon content; the actual matrix carbon content depends in a complex way on the alloy elements present, their amounts, and their locations (segregation) within the matrix.