Seco Warwick, Meadville, Pa., has been awarded a new technology patent for Pit-LPC furnaces that have set a new direction for carburizing processes. The LPC abbreviation refers to the “low pressure carburizing” formula, which is a process conducted under pressure or in a vacuum, in an oxygen free atmosphere by means of hydrocarbons.
Wisconsin Oven ships electrically heated oven to plastics industry
Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, announced the shipment of an electrically heated enhanced walk-in series oven that will be used for sintering parts for plastics applications. The maximum temperature for this oven is 800°F and the normal temperature is 700°F.
Sites Medical expands manufacturing capabilities with two Ipsen furnaces
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., was awarded an order from Sites Medical, Columbia City, Ind., for two TurboTreater vacuum furnaces. Sites Medical is an orthopedic technology development company that invents and de-risks new technologies and collaborates with OEMs to bring them to market and drive mutual growth.
One Minute Mentor: Equipment for Forging
The forge quenching process requires that quenching equipment be placed as closely as possible to the equipment used in the forging stage. Since the early 1960s, various direct-forge and quench equipment has been installed in this manner, thus enabling the use of carbon steels, which have good hardenability from grain growth and high dislocation density from the thermomechanical deformation performed during hot forging.
Nitrex installs a 5-in-1-turnkey nitriding system in Turkey
Nitrex, Quebec, has installed of a nitriding system that combines five Nitreg technologies with application know-how for processing a variety of components for electromechanical systems and actuating mechanisms used in aviation, land, and sea vehicles.