United Process Controls Inc. (UPC), Cincinnati, Ohio, and Praxair, Danbury, Conn., have formed a collaboration in which customers will have access to Praxair’s gases, application technologies, and supply systems, along with UPC’s portfolio of specialized industrial flow measurement and atmosphere-control products. This continues the long-standing relationship between Praxair and Atmosphere Engineering Company, now a member of UPC.
The combined capabilities of the two companies will bring more end-to-end technologies for a broad spectrum of batch and continuous heat-treating processes such as carburizing, carbonitriding, neutral hardening, annealing, gas quenching and heat-treatment applications under vacuum.
“The automotive and aerospace industries continue to expand requirements for heat treating,” says Steve Mueller, Praxair’s Associate Director of Business Development for Metals and Materials Processing. “We have a team approach in place, combining Praxair’s process know-how and expertise in industrial gases with United Process Controls’ specialized products.”
“This strategic agreement with Praxair reflects our commitment to offer the heat-treating industry a complementary and evolving portfolio of innovative technologies that help drive process efficiency and reliability,” says Paul Oleszkiewicz, President, UPC.
