The Industrial Heating Equipment Association, Taylor Mill, Ky., recently announced its 2013-14 Board of Directors and Officers. Serving as president (shown in the photo) is Tim Lee of Maxon, a division of Honeywell. Bob Green of Bloom Engineering was named IHEA Vice-President, and B.J. Bernard of Surface Combustion was elected Treasurer. Outgoing president Mike Shay of Elster Kromschröder, assumes the role of Past President.
Allegro MicroSystems LLC, Worcester, Mass., released a new POL converter module series. The BR200 series are thin POL converter modules with an industry standard exterior shape and footprint that are responsive to very high speed loads and compatible with ceramic capacitors. These POL converter modules have been designed with higher efficiency, increased power density and are offered in a thinner package that most competitive solutions on the market today.
Ipsen Group, Cherry Valley, Ill., will be shipping 27 vacuum furnaces to diverse customers and regions all over the world. Model types to be shipped include thirteen Titan furnaces, four TurboTreater furnaces, two vertical bottom-loading furnaces, two Turbo2Treaters, two VFCK (vacuum furnace with convection heating) models, one VFS HEQ (horizontal external quench), one MetalMaster, one Vacuum Oil Quench with AvaC carburizing, and one VTL (vertical top load) furnace.
GH Induction Atmospheres, Rochester, N.Y., has built an innovative induction heating machine that processes two automotive starter driveshaft parts every 16 seconds. A global automotive systems and components supplier contracted with GH IA to develop the machine specifically for a new starter driveshaft line. The design features dual vertical induction scanners with multiple power settings and scan speeds along each driveshaft.
AFC-Holcroft, Wixom, Mich., offers its Universal Batch Intensive Quenching (UBIQ) furnace, developed for the growing IntensiQuench market. Intensive quenching is a very rapid and uniform cooling of steel parts that causes the simultaneous formation of martensite throughout the whole part surface, creating a firm shell. The strong martensite case or shell minimizes part distortion. Metallurgical processes include neutral hardening, carburizing, carbonitriding, normalizing, and annealing.
