Industrial Heating articles from May 2003

Industrial Heating archives from May 2003

Advanced technology vehicles looming on the horizon. (Editorial).
May 1, 2003... The internal-combustion engine isn't quite ready for the Smithsonian Institution, but the push for transportation products powered by batteries, hybrid electric systems and fuel cells is growing--technologies that include an electric drive, or...

Glass houses and sins. (Federal Triangle).
May 1, 2003... Last month we examined the disconnect between U.S. trade deficits and domestic employment, as flavored by the I philosophic dispositions of House and Senate Members regarding free trade juxtaposed the twin evils of industrial protectionism and...

Light-vehicle technology research has energy efficiency in mind. (IH Automotive Focus: Trends).
May 1, 2003... To meet legislated vehicle energy goals and emissions regulations, research conducted through the Office of Advanced Automotive Technologies (OAAT), part of DOE's Office of Transportation Technologies (OTT), focuses on eliminating the most...

Alternative fuels in a hydrogen society. (IH Automotive Focus: Environmental & Safety Issues).
May 1, 2003... The latest technological advancements in the automobile industry not only reflect on how far we have come, but also accentuate what opportunities are on the horizon. We are driving safer and more fuel-efficient cars that run better and last...

Understanding the purchasing managers index (PMI). (Business Trends).
May 1, 2003... This index is compiled monthly by the National Association of Purchasing Management in Arizona. Surveys are sent to purchasing professionals in over 300 industrial companies. A reading of 50% or higher indicates that the manufacturing economy...

Hi-Temp Inc.: 50 years of providing heat treat, plating and brazing services. (MTI Profiles).
May 1, 2003... "Promise what is needed and deliver more than is expected" was the customer philosophy of Hi-Temp's founder Ed McCrink in 1953 and still is the company's driving force today. Mr. McCrink's brazing business rapidly expanded into annealing metal...

Hauck Manufacturing Co.: combustion expertise since 1988. (IHEA Profiles: Industrial Heating Equipment Association).
May 1, 2003... Hauck Manufacturing Co. Lebanon, Pa., is dedicated to supplying the latest in combustion technology for the sophisticated needs of industry today and to developing products that anticipate the needs of industry in the future. From application...

Annealing optimization software purchased. (New Facilities and Technology).(by Stelco Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Stelco Inc. in Canada has purchased CAPS[TM] V5 Suite software from Entec Systems International, Cleveland, Ohio, to reduce operating costs and increase batch-annealing throughput at the Hamilton, Ontario facility. Stelco purchased the heating...

Rotary Furnace contract awarded. (New Facilities and Technology).(to LOI Industrial Furnaces)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... LOI Industrial Furnaces, Canonsburg, Pa., has been awarded a contract from a southern wire rod producer for the supply of a rotary furnace. With an outside diameter of 27 ft (8 m) and 10 hearth positions, the furnace will be able to produce...

Vacuum furnace installed. (New Facilities and Technology).(at Bodycote Thermal Processing Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Bodycote Thermal Processing Inc. installed a bottom loading vacuum furnace at its Ipswich, Mass, facility. The G-M Enterprises vertical furnace has working dimensions of 72 in. x 72 in. (1,830 x 1,830 mm), load sizes up to 5,000 lb (2,270 kg)...

Oxygen supply contract awarded. (New Facilities and Technology).(by Tata Steel to BOC)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... BOC, Murray Hill, N.J., contracted with Tata Steel of Jamshedpur, India, to supply oxygen for use in the company's blast furnace. The multimillion-dollar contract is for a new oxygen plant that can produce up to 220 metric tons per day of...

Furnace loader line expanded. (New Facilities and Technology).(Hi-Tech Weighing Systems to be exclusive dealer for Oakland Welding Industries' Ram Style furnace loaders)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Hi-Tech Weighing Systems, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, has teamed with Oakland Welding Industries (OWI) to be the exclusive dealer for its line of Ram Style furnace loaders. Hi-Tech Weighing has manufactured automated weight based...

Processing capabilities expanded. (New Facilities and Technology).(by Zion Industries Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Zion Industries Inc., Valley City, Ohio, completed the design and fabrication of a dual station induction heat-treating scanner for its facility. The hydraulically operated scanner is paired with a 300 kW 10/25 kHZ power supply and is capable...

Solar expands braze capabilities. (New Facilities and Technology).(Solar Atmospheres)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Solar Atmospheres completed construction of a clean room for its vacu um brazing operations in its Hermitage, Pa., plant. Solar's expansion of braze processing also includes a new alliance using S-Bond technology, a joining process used for...

Hydra Aluminum upgrades remelt. (New Facilities and Technology).(Hydro Aluminum North America)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Hydro Aluminum North America has invested $11 million to upgrade its facility in Ellenville, N.Y. The first phase of the upgrade, to be completed by the end of 2003, includes improvements to infrastructure (e.g., scrap handling facility) and a...

LOI Group acquires 100% shares in Drever International. (Organizational Developments).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Ruhrgas Industries announced on 3 April that LOT Group of its Industrial Furnaces Division acquired 100% of the shares in Drever International S.A., Liege (Belgium). The acquisition, which took place in February 2003, was made through LOI Fours...

OM Group completes sale of SCM Metals. (Organizational Developments).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... OM Group, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, has completed the sale of SCM Metal Products, Inc. to Hoganas AB for $65 million in cash. On December 12, 2002 OMG announced details of its plan to improve cash flow and strengthen its balance sheet. In addition...

Metro Services purchases assets and inventory of ACI. (Organizational Developments).(Advanced Combustion Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Metro Services Inc., a combustion engineering company located in Chattanooga, Tenn., purchased the contacts and inventory of Advanced Combustion Inc. Metro provides field service and engineering support on combustion equipment across North...

Iceland aluminum facility agreement finalized. (Organizational Developments).(by Alcoa Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Alcoa Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa., finalized agreements with the Government of Iceland and Landsvirkjun, Iceland's national power company, to build the 322,000 metric tons per year Fjardaal aluminum facility in Eastern Iceland. Cost of the new...

U.S. Steel to acquire Serbian steel company. (Organizational Developments).(U.S. Steel Balkan d.o.o. to acquire Sartid a.d.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... United State Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa., announced that U.S. Steel Balkan d.o.o., a Serbian subsidiary of U.S. Steel, has agreed to purchase out of bankruptcy Serbian steel producer Sarrid a.d. and six of its subsidiaries for a total purchase...

Nucor acquires North Star Arizona assets. (Organizational Developments).(Nucor Steel Kingman LLC)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Nucor Steel Kingman, LLC, a subsidiary of Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., has completed the purchase of substantially all of the operating assets of the Kingman, Arizona steel facility of North Star Steel for $35 million. The purchase price did...

Curtiss-Wright to acquire six coating application facilities. (Organizational Developments).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Curtiss-Wright Corp., Roseland, N.J., signed an agreement to acquire selected assets of E/M, A Division of Morgan Chemical Products, Inc. ("E/M Coatings"), a subsidiary of The Morgan Crucible Co., plc, a $1.5 billion British manufacturer of...

QMP Germany achieves registration. (Organizational Developments).(Quebec Metal Powders Ltd facility in Monchengladbach, Germany, achieves ISO 14001 certification)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Quebec Metal Powders (QMP) Limited, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, announced that the QMP manufacturing facility in Monchengladbach, Germany, has successfully achieved certification to ISO 14001. Both the Canada and German facilities of QMP have...

Vitta celebrates 40th anniversary. (Organizational Developments).(Vitta Corp.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Vitta Corp., Bethel, Conn., celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2003 of supplying brazing products to the aerospace, automotive and industrial markers. Vitta offers a complete line of nickel brazing products and manufactures gas-atomized NADCAP...

E.ON AG secures majority shares in Ruhrgas. (Organizational Developments).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... E.ON AG in Europe became the majority shareholder of Ruhrgas AG. E.ON, one of Europe's largest electricity service providers, has EUR $80 billion in sales and more than 150,000 global employees. As a result of the acquisition, Ruhrgas AG will...

Drever grants exclusive license to the Rose Corp. (Organizational Developments).(Drever Co.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Drever Co. has named The Rose Corp., an industrial equipment builder located in Reading, Pa., exclusive licensee to manage Drever spare parts and after-market sales efforts in North America and Drever atmosphere generation equipment worldwide....

Pyronics forms alliance with Italian company. (Organizational Developments).(ESA S.r.l.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Pyronics Inc., a Cleveland, Ohio based combustion equipment and controls company has, as of March 1, 2003, formed a new long-term alliance with Italian based ESA S.r.l. This alliance broadens the equipment and controls base for both companies...

Michigan Steel achieves certification. (Organizational Developments).(Michigan Steel Spring Co. achieves ISO 9001:2000 registration)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Michigan Steel Spring Co., Detroit, Mich., a designer and manufacturer of prototype and short-run quantities of springs, clips, wire forms and stampings, has achieved ISO 9001:2000 registration after passing an audit in January 2003. The...

DSI receives International Trade award. (Organizational Developments).(Dynamic Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Dynamic Systems Inc. (DSI), Poestenkill, N.Y., manufacturer of Gleeble physical simulation systems, received an "Excellence in International Trade" award from the Capital Region World Trade Center and New York State Global Business Network. The...

Belmont Metals secures Indiana representative. (Organizational Developments).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Belmont Metals Inc., Brooklyn, N.Y. has appointed O'Brien and Sons of Fort Wayne, Ind., as its Indiana representative to provide nonferrous metals and alloys. Belmont Metals supplies nonferrous metals and alloys used in sculpture, jewelry,...

Pillar induction plans for customer sensitive future. (News Interview).
May 1, 2003... In December 2002, the management of Pillar Industries partnered with CM Acquisitions, LLC, a private equity firm in Chicago, Ill., to purchase Pillar from its previous owner, Mr. Ernest Goggio, who founded the business in 1966. According to...

Industry events.(Calendar)
May 1, 2003... JUNE 8-12 [PM.sup.2]TEC 2003 Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials World Congress, Las Vegas, Nev., sponsored by Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF); tel: 609-452-7700; fax: 609-987-8523; e-mail: info@mpif.org; web: www.mpif.org....

[PM.sup.2] TEC 2003: 2003 International Conference on Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials. (Trade Show).
May 1, 2003... June 8-12, 2003; Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nev. Exhibit Schedule: Monday, June 9: 2:15 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.; Tuesday, June 10: 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 11: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 2:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m....

Multifuel radiant-tube burner accommodates liquid and gaseous fuels. (Industrial Gases/Combustion).
May 1, 2003... The operation of a multifuel burner can lower the operating costs of an industrial plant because of fuel cost savings that are conditional on the local infrastructure. A new low-NOx burner concept for radiant tube applications was...

Rapid tempering and stress relief via high-speed convection heating. (IH Automotive Focus: Heat Treating).
May 1, 2003... Manufacturers need tempering and stress relieving ovens that can work at high precision at the same production rate directly out of coiling or hardening stations. High-speed stress-relief and tempering processes offer significant process design...

Case hardening of stainless steel using nitrogen. (Vacuum/Surface Treatments).
May 1, 2003... Producing a hardened case on stainless steel components via carburization results in the precipitation of chromium carbides, which depletes the matrix of both chromium and carbon, reducing the corrosion resistance and hardness of martensite....

SDF induction heating provides accurate contour hardening of PM parts. (IH Automotive Focus Sintering/Powder Metallurgy).
May 1, 2003... Simultaneous dual-frequency (SDF) induction heating offers a method to achieve true contour hardening of complex-shaped powder metallurgy parts with negligible distortion at very high production rates. Powder-metallurgy (PM) technology...

Tool brazing using inductive heating. (Product Reviews).
May 1, 2003... CEIA Inductive heating is used to efficiently solder hard metal, and single-and multicrystalline diamond tips on tools, cutters, ends, inserts and dressers. CEIA devices have a constant power supply and extremely accurate temperature...

High velocity burners. (Product Reviews).
May 1, 2003... Pyronics Inc. HMGT (high momentum ceramic tube) burners are designed for process temperatures up to 2500[degrees] (1370[degrees] The burner's outer tube is made of an advanced silicon carbide and the inner firing tube is made of stainless...

Control panels. (Product Reviews).
May 1, 2003... Eclipse Inc. CP series control panels manage combustion processes and optimize system performance. The CP product line offers a choice of three control panel performance categories. The CPL method is a basic single-burner control panel....

Rotary vane pump. (Product Reviews).
May 1, 2003... Pfeiffer Vacuum The UNO 30M rotary vane pump has magnetic coupling to maximize uptime pumping speed of 35 [m.sup.3]/h (1,235 [ft.sup.3]/h) at 60 Hz, and comes standard with a single-phase motor for easy electrical connection. The magnetic...

Furnace controller & software. (Product Reviews).
May 1, 2003... Jon Goldman Associates Inc. The ICCI SLC99 furnace controller is used on new furnaces or as a replacement for old and obsolete controllers on existing furnaces. It consists of a chassis, temperature electronics module, input/output boards,...

Oven furnaces. (Product Reviews).
May 1, 2003... Charles A. Hones Inc. A line of Buzzer Fire-Box HT high-temperature oven furnaces, offering large, brick-lined work chambers and rated for 2150[degrees]F (1175[degrees]C) service are available in both floor-type and bench-type models,...

Remote viewing system. (Product Reviews).
May 1, 2003... Lenox Instrument Co. FireSight[R] high-temperature remote viewing NOx emissions by permitting color video monitoring of combustion and process control. It is capable of operating at temperatures to 3500[degrees]F, or 193 0[degrees]C...

Ipsen appoints managers. (Personnel Changes).(Ipsen International Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Patrick Weymer has been appointed Atmosphere Products manager of Ipsen International Inc., Rockford, Ill. In addition, Kelly Hoffman has been appointed Engineered Components manager.

Kolene expands technical services. (Personnel Changes).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Kolene Corp., Detroit, Mich., has expanded the technical and service capabilities of its Nu-Tride[R] operations and has appointed Brian Radford as manager of metallurgical processes and products and Vincent Marecki as account representative.

Solar fills posts. (Personnel Changes).(Solar Manufacturing Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Jim Nagy has been appointed to oversee sales and marketing for Solar Manufacturing, Inc., a newly incorporated vacuum furnace manufacturer in Souderton, Pa. After two years as manager of business operations at Solar Atmospheres, Inc., Mr. Nagy...

ZIRCAR Ceramics appoints sales engineer. (Personnel Changes).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Chris Decker has been appointed international sales engineer for ZIRCAR Ceramics, Inc., Florida, N.Y.

Computer simulation of induction heat treating: impressive, promising. (Induction Corner).
May 1, 2003... Can the results of induction heat treating be accurately predicted by computer simulation as it is for many other manufacturing processes? The answer is yes! Induction heat treating is the most complicated method to simulate because of the...