\n\tAFC-Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., reports that a leading global automotive supplier has placed an order for a rebuild\/retrofit of an existing pusher furnace line, along with contract additions for companion ancillary equipment, as part of a multi-phase project. The first phase rebuild\/retrofit portion involves restoration of an existing 3-row pusher furnace line including pusher furnace with quench, postwasher, temper furnace, transfers\/conveyors, electrical control panels, and flowmeter panels.<\/p>\n
\n\tAs part of the order, the existing equipment will receive a number of modifications and upgrades to meet current industrial, safety, and supplier standards.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe new companion ancillary equipment will consist of the following: 3-row magazine loader, prewasher, preheat furnace, oil storage tank, closed-loop cooling system, 13,500 cfh E-Z series endothermic gas generator, transfers\/conveyors, and powered exhaust system.<\/p>\n
\n\tA new holding chamber with press quench will integrate into the rebuilt\/retrofitted equipment that will allow for either direct part quenching (into pusher furnace quench tank) or press quenching (into the press quench). The holding chamber will be unloaded by a robot that will load\/unload the press quench.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe equipment for rebuild\/retrofit is already in storage at AFC-Holcroft’s build partner, MATTSA, in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. MATTSA will rebuild\/retrofit the existing pusher furnace line and provide the new companion ancillary equipment. Once completed, each piece will be cold-tested and shipped to the supplier’s plant for installation, start-up, commissioning and formal operator training by MATTSA and AFC-Holcroft. Completion of the first phase is expected in 2015.<\/p>\n