{"id":9880,"date":"2018-07-30T15:09:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T15:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.asminternational.org\/hts-new\/amsted-rail-purchases-afc-holcroft-carburizing-rotary-hearth-and-other-furnaces\/"},"modified":"2023-02-23T22:35:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T22:35:12","slug":"amsted-rail-purchases-afc-holcroft-carburizing-rotary-hearth-and-other-furnaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asminternational.org\/hts\/amsted-rail-purchases-afc-holcroft-carburizing-rotary-hearth-and-other-furnaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsted Rail purchases AFC-Holcroft carburizing, rotary hearth, and other furnaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span>AFC-Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., announces that Amsted Rail, a global leader in fully integrated freight car systems for the heavy haul rail market, has added a complete AFC-Holcroft UBH line to meet a growing need for additional heat treatment capacity. This latest purchase includes a batch style carburizing furnace, two expansion modules to increase endothermic generator gas output, a rotary hearth reheat furnace for press quenching, and a continuous integrated parts washer and temper furnace. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>\u201cThe batch furnace itself has an effective load size of 72 inches by 72 inches by 56 inches with a gross load capacity of 13,000 pounds, which is considered very large for this type of equipment, but is in fact one of AFC-Holcroft\u2019s standard sizes,\u201d says Tracy Dougherty, Sales Manager at AFC-Holcroft. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>Amsted Rail is headquartered in Chicago, with locations spanning the globe, in every significant railroad market. The equipment is scheduled to ship to a joint venture facility located in Eastern Europe, in the third quarter of 2018. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afcholcroft.com\">www.afcholcroft.com<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC-Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., announces that Amsted Rail, a global leader in fully integrated freight car systems for the heavy haul rail market, has added a complete AFC-Holcroft UBH line to meet a growing need for additional heat treatment capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[440,441,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-news-articles","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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