Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped an electrically heated four chamber hot-stamping furnace to the Gestamp Research and Development facility located in Auburn Hills, Mich. Gestamp is an international corporation that designs, develops, and manufactures metal automotive components.
The hot stamping furnace features one stack of three high-heat chambers and one low-heat chamber. The maximum temperature rating of the high-heat chambers is 1920°F and the low-heat chamber is 1000°F. Each furnace chamber was designed with load space dimensions of 36 x 30 x 8 inches.
The furnace is integrated at the Gestamp facility with a robotic transfer system and hydraulic hot stamping press. The four chambers operate independently, with the top chamber designated for aluminum treatment. This type of hot stamping system allows the customer the flexibility to treat different steels simultaneously, and has a much smaller footprint than a continuous system. Click here to view a video of the integrated hot stamp furnace at the Gestamp facility.
Lindberg/MPH hot-stamping furnaces are available in batch or multiple batch style configurations, and are designed to heat any structural size or shaped part. They can be designed with rapid and selective heating areas, fast opening doors to meet any loading/unloading speeds, and data acquisition systems for full process reporting.
