Industrial Heating articles from February 2005

Industrial Heating archives from February 2005

Journey's end.(EDITORIAL)
February 1, 2005... It is with sad hearts that we say goodbye to a man who at one time was the heart and soul of Industrial Heating. On December 21, Charles (Chuck) Taylor McClelland, past owner, editor and publisher of IH passed away at the age of 80 in Upper...

Hard power, soft power.(FEDERAL TRIANGLE)
February 1, 2005... Four months ago we looked at unreasoned but prevalent European, negative views of the "American condition," popularized by politicians and the media. Why this divisive and arrogant view of U.S. success exists and its impacts on America deserves...

Understanding aluminum heat treatment.(THE HEAT TREAT DOCTOR)
February 1, 2005... The heat treatment of aluminum and aluminum alloys are precision processes, which must be carried out in furnaces and ovens properly designed to provide very precise thermal conditions and equipped with adequate control instruments to ensure...

Changes to environmental rules are not hard to believe.(ENVIRONMENTAL & SAFETY ISSUES)
February 1, 2005... Some things are hard to believe. In a recent White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) report on international regulatory accounting, the United States was ranked among the least regulated nations around the globe. According to the...

Merrill Lynch: exclusive new equipment lease program designed for heat treaters.(MTI PROFILE)(Metal Treating Institute)
February 1, 2005... MTI and Merrill Lynch can provide financing options that can help maximize cash flow, reduce taxes and ensure the optimum use of capital. In addition to special lease financing rates, this partnership provides MTI members with education on...

Gas Technology Institute.(IHEA PROFILE)(Company Profile)
February 1, 2005... Gas Technology Institute (GTI) is a leading research, development and training organization serving the natural gas industry, including industrial heating. From wellhead to burner tip, technological advancements produced by GTI are at the...

Business trends that may impact the thermal processing industry.(BUSINESS TRENDS)
February 1, 2005... ECONOMIC INDEXES [GRAPHIC OMITTED] SHORT TERM INTEREST RATES [GRAPHIC OMITTED] MTI BILLING [GRAPHIC OMITTED] METAL PRICES [GRAPHIC OMITTED] EQUIPMENT PURCHASES [GRAPHIC OMITTED] IHEA ORDERS ...

Electric arc furnace.(New Equipment Orders)
February 1, 2005... SMS Demag AG in Germany received an order from Feng Hsin Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. to supply an electric arc furnace. The order includes an electric arc furnace with enclosure, an alloy addition system, a dust collecting facility, and the...

CuproBraze[R] furnace system.(New Equipment Orders)
February 1, 2005... SECO/WARWICK Ltd. Poland (Swiebodzin, Poland) manufactured and shipped a semi-continuous, three-chamber electrically heated CuproBraze[R] furnace system to Finland-based Suomen Jaahdytintehdas Oy (SJT). Furnace production was scheduled to begin...

High-temperature sintering furnaces.(New Equipment Orders)
February 1, 2005... Centorr Vacuum Industries (Nashua, N.H.), a high-temperature vacuum/controlled atmosphere furnace manufacturer, received orders from various customers for three silicon carbide sintering furnaces for 2005 delivery. The furnaces include a 2...

Induction line pipe heater.(New Equipment Orders)
February 1, 2005... Radyne (Berkshire, UK) has been awarded a contract to supply a 3.2 MW induction heating installation to Bredero-Shaw Coaters Ltd. of Leith to heat line pipe prior to applying a corrosion-resistant coating. The equipment will be installed at the...

Carburizing heat treat furnace.(New Equipment Orders)
February 1, 2005... Metlab (Wyndmoor, Pa.) upgraded one of its largest pit carburizing furnaces, doubling its capability to carburize, nitride and quench and temper gears, bearings and other components measuring up to 14 ft in diameter by 12 ft long (4.2 by 3.6...

Gas-fired chamber furnaces.(New Equipment Orders)
February 1, 2005... OTTO JUNKER GmbH (Simmerath, Germany) received orders from Profilglass for four indirect gas-fired chamber furnaces with jet heating (patented swirl nozzle system with slot nozzles in star-shaped arrangement) for the annealing of aluminum strip...

Stress rupture and creep testing services.(New Equipment Orders)
February 1, 2005... Laboratory Testing Inc. (Hatfield, Pa.) added stress rupture and creep testing to its list of services by purchasing four fully automated stress rupture/creep machines that test at temperatures up to 2000[degrees]F (1095[degrees]C). Temperature...

New carbon foam-manufacturing facility to be built in West Virginia.(New Facilities)
February 1, 2005... Touchstone Research Laboratory, in partnership with Regional Economic Development Partnership, the state of West Virginia and the U.S. Dept. of Defense, has announced plans to build a new facility to produce a carbon-foam (CFOAM) material made...

Construction begins at aluminum remelt plant.(New Facilities)(Triple M Metal)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Triple M Metal, one of Canada's largest recyclers of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, broke ground on its new $65 million facility in Brampton. The 110,000 f[t.sup.2] facility for the new company (Matalco Inc.) will create 50 new jobs in the...

Building expansion in South Africa.(New Facilities)
February 1, 2005... Allied Mineral Products Inc. (Columbus, Ohio), a producer of monolithic refractories for the foundry, steel and aluminum industries, completed a building expansion project at its office and production facility in Johannesburg, South Africa....

Air products, Surface Combustion announce joint marketing strategy.(Business News)
February 1, 2005... Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) entered into a marketing agreement with Surface Combustion Inc. (Maumee, Ohio) in which both companies will jointly market a newly integrated portfolio to the metals processing industry. The agreement leverages...

Alcan, GM, NRC to develop new application for automotive industry.(Business News)
February 1, 2005... Alcan Inc. will join automaker General Motors of Canada and the National Research Council's Aluminum Technology Centre (NRC-ATC) to create ground-breaking techniques that will be used in new aluminum applications for automotive structures. The...

Joint venture in China for Techint and Simest.(Business News)
February 1, 2005... Techint Technologies (Milano, Italy) and Simest, the Italian Government Agency for the promotion of the Italian Investment abroad, belonging to the Ministry of Industry, recently established China Metals Processing HK Ltd. in Hong Kong. The...

Handy & Harman Precious Metals Group acquires Protechno S.A.(Business News)
February 1, 2005... The Precious Metals Group of Handy & Harman (Milwaukee, Wis.) acquired Protechno S.A., a French manufacturer and distributor of brazing and soldering materials. The Handy & Harman Precious Metals Group includes Lucas-Milhaupt Inc. and Handy &...

PVA TePla AG signs joint venture in China for crystal growing systems.(Business News)
February 1, 2005... The Crystal Growing Systems division (CGS GmbH) of PVA TePla AG has signed a joint venture agreement with the Technical University of Xian (TUX) to establish Xi'an HuaDe CGS GmbH, located in Xi'an, China. TUX is one of China's biggest producers...

Esmark completes acquisition of Century Steel.(Business News)
February 1, 2005... Esmark, Inc. (Chicago, Ill.), a steel services company, completed its purchase of the assets of Century Steel LLC for $40 million in cash. Century Steel is a flat-rolled steel specialist with annual revenues of $130 million. It sells...

Maryland QC Laboratories changes name.(Business News)
February 1, 2005... Maryland QC Laboratories Inc. (Belcamp, Md.), an independent nondestructive examination and testing company, changed its name to MQC Labs to better reflect its ability to serve both national and international customers. Over the past 22 years,...

Carl Zeiss microscope software wins competition.(Business News)(Sohard AG)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... The Light Microscopy division of Carl Zeiss AG (Goettingen), together with the Sohard AG, Furth software company, has won first place in the .NET Solutions Competition, 2004 organized by Microsoft in the category of "Best .NET Project." The...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
February 1, 2005... In the article "Advancements in Microwave Heating Technology" on page 48 in the January 2005 issue of IH, Research Microwave Systems LLC was mistakenly listed as being located in Alfred, N.Y. The company is located in Troy, N.Y.

Correction.(Correction Notice)
February 1, 2005... In the article "Automated Measurement System for Gas Nitriding/Nitrocarburizing" in the January 2005 issue of IH, the company name in Fig. 1 (p 35) should be Service Heat Treating instead of Surface Heat Treating, and the part shown in Fig. 5...

Upcoming trade shows.(Calendar)
February 1, 2005... TMS 2005-134th Annual Meeting & Exhibition February 13-17, 2005 Moscone West Convention Center, San Francisco, Calif. The TMS 2005 Annual Meeting, sponsored by the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) will feature more...

Calendar of events.(Calendar)
February 1, 2005... FEBRUARY 28-March 2 Hauck Combustion Seminar, Cleona, Pa., sponsored by Hauck Manufacturing Co.; tel: 717-272-3051; fax: 717-273-9882; web: www.hauckburner.com. MARCH 7-10 Aluminum USA 2005, McCormick Place, Chicago, III.,...

Environmentally friendly aluminum scrap dryer and melter promise lower energy use, higher yields: an alternative method of melting aluminum scrap in secondary aluminum processing is intended to improve both the energy efficiency and environmental performance of aluminum melting furnaces. This work was funded by DOE's industrial technologies program.(Melting/Forming/Joining)
February 1, 2005... A problem faced by the primary metal and glass industries is their intense energy usage. For example, the secondary aluminum processing industry uses about 1,000 Btu/lb of aluminum to remove oil, paint, plastics and other organics from the...

Aluminum casting heat treating: looking for faster cycles: it is inevitable that technical innovation will bring about improvements to the process of aluminum heat treating.(Nonferrous Heat Treating)
February 1, 2005... Pacifica (Melbourne, Australia) designs and manufactures automotive components and friction materials for world markets. Pacifica's technology arm, Pacifica Group Technologies (PGT), has developed innovative casting technology which has been...

Use of inert atmosphere reduces scaling of induction-heated forging stock: part 1; use of a protective atmosphere during induction preheating of forging billets reduces scaling resulting in significantly increased life of forging dies compared with preheating in air.(Industrial Gases/Combustion)
February 1, 2005... Preheating billet and bar forging stock in fuel combustion direct flame furnaces results in significant metal loss through oxidation and scaling. Also, combustion products present in the furnace prevent the use of protective atmospheres; that...

Ceramic-base surface treatment technology for light-metal alloys: a unique, innovative surface treatment technology provides an alternative to current traditional less environmentally friendly coating methods.(Ceramics & Refractories/Insulation)
February 1, 2005... An innovative surface modification method, called Keronite surface treatment technology, is finding increasing interest with coatings companies and OEMs seeking alternatives to some currently used traditional coating technologies that are less...

World class heat processing equipment.(LITERATURE FEATURE)
February 1, 2005... SECO/WARWICK Corp. is a premier manufacturer of industrial heat treating equipment, atmosphere generators and nonferrous reverb melting and holding systems. Each of the company's product lines, as well as value-added engineering services, is...

Ceramic Coatings study.(TECHNICAL LITERATURE)
February 1, 2005... Business Communications Co. Inc. (Norwalk, Conn.) released an updated report, RGB-111N High Performance Ceramic Coatings: Markets and Technology, which states that the North American market for high-performance ceramic coatings services is...

Instrumentation product handbook.(TECHNICAL LITERATURE)
February 1, 2005... Action Instruments (Leesburg, Va.) published a new 350-p product handbook for 2005, which includes application notes, technical tips, engineering data and product selection information, as well as a list of dimensional drawings and agency...

Ceramic Processing and Sintering.(TECHNICAL LITERATURE)
February 1, 2005... Marcel Dekker Inc. (headquartered in New York, N.Y.) released Ceramic Processing and Sintering, second edition, by Mohamed N. Rahaman at the University of Missouri-Rolla. This 880-p reference volume is extensively revised and expanded to...

Solidification Processes and Microstructures.(TECHNICAL LITERATURE)
February 1, 2005... The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) in Warrendale, Pa., released Solidification Process and Microstructures: Symposium in Honor of Prof. W. Kurz, edited by M. Rappai, C. Beckermann and R. Trivedi. This 432-p book contains papers...

High Temperature Materials Handbook.(TECHNICAL LITERATURE)
February 1, 2005... Cotronics Corp. (Brooklyn, N.Y.) released the 2005 Edition of High Temperature Materials Handbook for electrical, structural and industrial applications. This 68-p reference source includes up-to-date data including machinable ceramics,...

Wall-mounted analyzer.(PRODUCT REVIEWS)
February 1, 2005... CEA Instruments Inc. The newly improved CEA 266 wall-mounted C[O.sub.2] gas analyzer is contained in a water and dust tight NEMA 4X enclosure with digital display readout. Ranges of 0-2000 ppm, 0-5000 ppm and 0-1%, 0-2%, 0-5%, 0-10% and 0-20%...

High temperature adhesive.(PRODUCT REVIEWS)
February 1, 2005... Aremco Products Inc. Ceramabond[TM] 813A is a single part, alumina-silica filled paste that bonds tenaciously to ceramic, refractory and metal substrates. It can work in operating temperatures to 3000[degrees]F (1650[degrees]C) and exhibits...

Electronic descalers.(PRODUCT REVIEWS)
February 1, 2005... Clearwater Enviro Technologies Inc. Seven new industrial-size models have been added to the company's UL-listed Scale-Blaster[TM] line of electronic descalers. These new models handle standard diameters of non-steel pipe from 12 to 40 in. (305...

Flow sensors.(PRODUCT REVIEWS)
February 1, 2005... J-TEC Associates Inc. J-TEC Flo-Tube flow sensors are designed to create and sense a pressure difference in a wide variety of flowing media within a pipeline or any other closed circuit. Flo-Tube provides an accurate, convenient method of...

Hardness measurement system.(PRODUCT REVIEWS)
February 1, 2005... Zwick GmbH & Co KG The basis for the hardness measurement system comprises two hardness testing devices: a machine for Rockwell testing and an additional tester for Vickers hardness tests. Both machines are fully automated and designed for...

Compaction press.(PRODUCT REVIEWS)
February 1, 2005... Hydropulsor AB The company's third generation of high-velocity compaction (HVC) presses for powder metallurgy more economically produce higher density, higher performance parts than conventional powder presses. Densities for conventional...

Universal digital controller.(PRODUCT REVIEWS)
February 1, 2005... Honeywell The UDC3200 universal digital controller is built on the same platform as the recently released UDC2500 controller and delivers higher-level functions in the one-quarter DIN size while retaining the reliability, cost...

Temperature and process controllers.(PRODUCT REVIEWS)
February 1, 2005... Athena Controls Inc. The Platinum[TM] Series X400 Line of temperature controllers and the X5000 line of process controllers are designed to serve a wide range of thermal processing applications. The X400 provides a high degree of...

Graphite cam followers.(PRODUCT REVIEWS)
February 1, 2005... Graphite Metallizing Corp. GRAPHALLOY[R] Yoke Style cam followers offer greater mounting flexibility for high temperature, low temperature and submerged applications. The followers work in temperatures to 750[degrees]F (400[degrees]C) and...

Materials testing indicators.(PRODUCT REVIEWS)
February 1, 2005... ADMET[TM] Inc. Enhancements have been made to the Gauge Buster and Gauge Buster Plus materials testing load, stress and load rate indicators for manually operated machines. The indicators are used to measure the compressive and tensile...

Ipsen names VP of sales and marketing.(PERSONNEL CHANGES)
February 1, 2005... Tim Davis has been appointed vice president of marketing, sales and after-market functions at Ipsen International Inc. (Rockford, III.). Mr. Davis comes to Ipsen after 20 years at Hamilton Sundstrand. His professional background includes...

Solar appoints VP of sales.(PERSONNEL CHANGES)(Appointment)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Peter Reh has joined Solar Manufacturing's Furnace Division (Telford, Pa.) as vice president of sales responsible for new furnace sales throughout North America. Mr. Reh has nearly 22 years of experience in the vacuum furnace industry and most...

Despatch appoints Infrared Processing Group leader.(PERSONNEL CHANGES)(Appointment)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Carson Richert has been appointed to lead the Infrared Processing Group of Despatch Industries (Minneapolis, Minn.). Mr. Richert is a pioneer in IR Thermal Processing and co-founded Radiant Technology Corp. in 1972.

Air products appoints chief risk officer.(PERSONNEL CHANGES)(Appointment)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Diane Sheridan has been appointed to chief risk officer for Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.). She is responsible for developing risk evaluation and quantification, measurements and coordinating compliance activities with global...

Eurotherm USA appoints manager.(PERSONNEL CHANGES)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Tim Davis has been appointed manager of the Repair Center for Eurotherm in Leesburg, Va. Since 1999, Mr. Davis worked as product manager for the Eurotherm Power Products line. He also has years of experience in customer sales, field engineering...