Industrial Heating articles from May 2004

Industrial Heating archives from May 2004

Hydrogen-based transportation, or not?(Editorial)
May 1, 2004... DOE projects the demand for oil in the U.S. to increase by nearly 50% by 2025. Petroleum imports already supply more than 55% of U.S. domestic needs, and those imports are projected to increase to more than 68% by 2025. This dilemma has driven...

Economic indicator.
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Structural defect.(Federal Triangle)
May 1, 2004... While manufacturing's share of gross domestic product has declined steadily from 27% in 1960 to about 13.7% today, total U.S. employment has grown with population over the same term and in the last quarter reversed a slight, two-year decline....

Induction heating for the rest of us.(The Heat Treat Doctor)(usage and importance )
May 1, 2004... Curiosity is a wonderful thing. It forces us to question, think and learn. Induction heating is one of those technologies that many of us who don't work regularly in the field are curious about, and it seems that you either understand it or you...

Hydrogen or hybrids?(Environmental & Safety Issues)
May 1, 2004... In President Bush's 2003 State of the Union Address, he proposed a $1.2 billion investment for hydrogen fuel cell technology research. What is not so well known is that in November 2001, the U.S. Department of Energy developed the "National...

Heat Treating Services Corp. of America.(MTI Profiles)(Metal Treating Institute)(Company Profile)
May 1, 2004... Heat Treating Services Corp. of America (HTS), Pontiac, Mich., was founded in 1978. The first furnace was installed to serve as a backup for Ford Motor Co. The company continued to expand by adding furnaces to meet specific customer...

LOI Industrial Furnaces.(IHEA Profiles)(Company Profile)
May 1, 2004... The LOI Group is a world leader in the supply of major furnace systems for the steel, aluminum and automobile industries. To maintain this position, LOI continually strives to improve its global market position by strengthening its...

Understanding Prime Rate.(Business Trends)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... The Prime Rate is the best interest rate a bank charges to its best customers. It is sometimes referred to as "the price of money" but is more accurately understood as the price to borrow money. The rate is considered to be a leading indicator...

Pit-furnace systems.(New Equipment Orders)
May 1, 2004... Lindberg (Watertown, Wis.) will supply two large capacity electric pit furnaces and companion water quench tank to Semco Corp. (Marion, Ohio), a manufacturer of beryllium copper plunger tips for the die-casting industry in the U.S. and Europe....

Billet-heating equipment.(New Equipment Orders)
May 1, 2004... Newelco, part of Inductoheat (Europe), will supply a 9 ton/hr billet heater to a major automotive manufacturer in Brazil to heat square and round billets up to 124 mm and 110 mm (~5 and 4.5 in.), respectively. In addition, Newelco supplied an...

Heat treatment fixtures.(New Equipment Orders)
May 1, 2004... AFE Klefisch (Hurth, Germany), part of AFE Technologies Group, a manufacturer of heat resistant alloy cast and fabricated fixtures, tubes and furnace parts, will supply heat-treatment fixtures to GM-FIAT Powertrain (Aspern, Austria) for its ECM...

Batch integral quench furnace line.(New Equipment Orders)
May 1, 2004... Surface Combustion Inc. (Maumee, Ohio) will supply a Super Allcase[R] batch integral quench furnace line with companion equipment to ReedHycalog's (Houston, Tex.) Singapore plant. ReedHycalog specializes in manufacturing roller cone, PDC...

Integral quench batch furnace line.(New Equipment Orders)
May 1, 2004... Ipsen International Inc. (Cherry Valley, Ill.) delivered an Ipsen[R] IronHorse[TM] automatic integral quench batch furnace to SEW-Eurodrive (Lyman, S.C.), a power transmission systems and service provider. The system includes a gas-fired I/O...

Horizontal vacuum furnace.(New Equipment Orders)
May 1, 2004... Solar Manufacturing (Telford, Pa.) shipped a refurbished horizontal vacuum furnace to the U.S. Army's Picatinny Arsenal (Picatinny, N.J.). The refurbishment included upgrading the all-metallic hot zone to improve thermal efficiency, new power...

Simulation system.(New Equipment Orders)
May 1, 2004... Dynamic Systems Inc. (Poestenkill, N.Y.) supplied a Gleeble thermal mechanical physical simulation system to Riva Acciaio S.p.A. (Lesegno, Italy) to help the company enhance the efficiency and quality of its mill operations in all aspects of...

Aluminum foil annealing center.(New Equipment Orders)
May 1, 2004... Otto Junker GmbH (Simmerath, Germany) designed, manufactured, installed and commissioned a new annealing center for SAM-A Aluminum Co. Ltd. (Seoul, Korea), a manufacturer of aluminum foil. The center consists of eight furnaces, five cooling...

Oxygen plant.(New Equipment Orders)
May 1, 2004... BOC (Murray Hills, N.J.), a supplier of industrial gases and related products and services to the global metals industry, will build and operate an oxygen plant under a multiyear contract for Companhia Siderurgica de Tubarao (CST), a producer...

Roller-hearth furnace.(New Equipment Orders)
May 1, 2004... Bricmont Inc. (Canonsburg, Pa.) will supply a 755-ft (230 m) long tunnel roller hearth furnace to Tonghua Iron & Steel (Group) Ltd. (Tonghua, Jilin Province, China) to heat slabs for its new Thin Strip Production Line Project. Bricmont will...

Bell annealer.(New Equipment Orders)
May 1, 2004... EBNER Industrieofenbau (Leonding, Austria) supplied a HICON/H2[R] bell annealer facility to Schwermetall Halbzeugwerk GmbH & Co. KG (Stolberg, Germany). The type HOg 200/390 Ms-H2-B annealer is designed to recrystallize and homogenize copper...

Test system controllers.(New Equipment Orders)
May 1, 2004... MTS Systems Corp. (Eden Prairie, Minn.), a global supplier of testing products, will supply several European aerospace customers with its Aero ST and FlexTest SE test system controllers and AeroPro 4.0 control and data acquisition software...

Casthouse upgrade.(New Facilities)
May 1, 2004... Hydro Aluminum in Norway and RUSAL in Moscow have successfully tested operations at the upgraded casthouse in Sayanogorsk (Russia). New installations at the casting complex include a casting unit, aluminum refining system and a continuous...

Metal powder plant.(New Facilities)
May 1, 2004... Quebec Metal Powders (QMP) Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) constructed a metal-powder blending plant, technical laboratory and product warehouse in Suzhou, 80 km northwest of Shanghai, China. Start-up is forecast for February 2005. Powder for...

Can-Eng celebrates 40th anniversary.(Business News)
May 1, 2004... Can-Eng Furnaces Ltd. (Niagara Falls, N.Y.), a designer and manufacturer of industrial heat-treating equipment, celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2004. Officially incorporated in May 1964, Can-Eng has grown to develop a market position in 17...

Veltri announces proposed sale.(Business News)
May 1, 2004... Automotive parts supplier Veltri Metal Products Inc. (Troy, Mich.) and its Canadian subsidiary, Veltri Metal Products Co., have entered into agreements to sell a substantial portion of their business and assets to Flex-N-Gate (FNG) Corp. in the...

Eclipse group completes PHAST training.(Business News)
May 1, 2004... Eclipse Global Services staff, based in Rockford, Ill., along with several of its partners including BDC, Conrad Kacsik, Marshall Nelson and Industrial Burner Systems, recently completed the PHAST (Process Heating Assessment and Survey Tool)...

Hayes Lemmerz plans restructuring.(Business News)
May 1, 2004... Hayes Lemmerz International Inc. (Northville, Mich.), a global supplier of automotive components, announced a manufacturing rationalization plan for its North American Wheel Group to significantly lower operating costs and increase facility...

Porter Steel Treating celebrates anniversary.(Business News)
May 1, 2004... The Geo. H. Porter Steel Treating Co. (Cleveland, Ohio), which opened for business in April 1919, celebrates its 85th anniversary in 2004. The third-generation family owned business specializes in tool work. Info # 158 or www.IHadinfo.cc

Engine supplier selected for 7E7 aircraft.(Business News)
May 1, 2004... The Boeing Co. (Seattle, Wash.) selected Rolls-Royce to supply a new generation of Rolls-Royce Trent engine (The Trent 1000) for Boeing's 7E7 Dreamliner. The Trent 1000 will be offered to power all variants of the 7E7, from short to long-range...

Slater Steel completes sale of Sorel Forge.(Business News)
May 1, 2004... Slater Steel Inc. (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) completed the sale of substantially all the assets of Sorel Forge (Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada) to a subsidiary of A. Finkl & Sons Co. for approximately $41 million. Sorel Forge, with about 270...

Industry events.(Calendar)
May 1, 2004... MAY 30-June 3 16th International Plansee Seminar on Powder Metallurgical High Performance Materials, Ruette, Austria, organized by Plansee Holding AG; tel: +43-5672-600-2800; fax: +43-5672-600-62800; e-mail: plansee.seminar@plansee.com;...

Gear heat treatment using induction: new process alternatives and advantages; value in gear-making results from having the fewest number of operations performed successively in a synchronous manner with little or no work in process between operations.(Induction Heat Treating)
May 1, 2004... Heat treating of gears is performed to achieve the necessary wear resistance and bending strength. A hardened outer layer on the gear flanks resists wear and scuffing as the mating gears slide in and out of mesh with one another. Additionally,...

Liquid induction treatment offers extensive capabilities: new liquid induction heat treatment and thermochemical processing technologies represent a significant breakthrough in material science, metallurgy and heat treatment, and offer a broad range of all metal treatment capabilities.(Induction Heat Treating)
May 1, 2004... Heat treatment and thermochemical processing of metal components is a vital part of many machine, equipment and tool manufacturing processes. SPI has developed new thermal processing techniques including liquid induction carburizing...

Temperature measurement in vacuum: thermocouples, when properly selected and used, provide highly accurate, reliable process temperature data in a vacuum furnace environment.(Process Control & Instrumentation)
May 1, 2004... Thermocouples have been the overwhelming choice for temperature measurement and control in the area of batch-type vacuum heat-treating furnaces. When properly selected and used, they provide accurate, reliable process temperature data, which is...

VPS fabrication of crucibles and furnace cartridges: new vacuum plasma spray-forming technology combined with post-spray heat treating is a viable method for fabricating new and improved materials for high-temperature furnace cartridges for use in space applications.(Heat & Corrosion Resistant Materials/Composites)(vacuum plasma spraying)
May 1, 2004... High temperature furnace components used for microgravity processing in space are made of refractory metals, taking advantage of their high melting temperatures and inherent chemical stability. Techniques were developed to produce...

Induction heating systems.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Ajax TOCCO Magnethermic Corporation Ajax TOCCO Magnethermic Corporation is a world leader in the induction heating, melting and forging industries. Our proven applications include brazing, annealing, hardening, tempering, seam annealing,...

Commercial Induction Heat Treating Lab.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Alpha 1 Induction Service Center Commercial Induction Heat Treating Lab has machines from 10 to 300 kW and 3 to 450 kHz. This includes our new 3-10 kHz and 450 kHz, both 300 kW, 60 inch dual scanner with a 600 lb max. spindle weight....

Induction heating power system.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Bone Frontier Company Bone Frontier Co. currently is shipping its newest model of induction heating power system, the Evolution 5. The brochure features Bone Frontier's machine manufacturing capabilities and illustrates the features and...

Induction heating equipment.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Capital Induction Our product quality, engineering and manufacturing capability of induction coils, transformers and fixtures have made Capital Induction a leading supplier to manufacturers in the automotive, farm equipment and heavy...

Induction-heating generators.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Huettinger Electronic Inc. Huettinger Electronic offers both solid-state and tube-type induction heating generators for a wide variety of applications including hardening, forging, epitaxy, crystal growing, and packaging. Outputs range...

Induction Tooling facility.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Induction Tooling, Inc. Induction Tooling, Inc. is the world's premier induction tooling facility celebrating 27 successful years. We specialize in the design, build and repair of selective hardening inductors. Our quick-change designs...

Induction gear hardening.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Inductoheat[R] Inductoheat[R] provides unique solutions for all of your gear hardening applications. This literature explains the benefits of Variable Frequency Power Supplies, standard and custom designed systems, and Inductoheat[R]'s new...

Mobile induction heat generators.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Mobile Heat LLC Brochure describes mobile induction heat generators of 1500, 3000, 5000 and 15,000 W. Unique feature is RF Head contains complete oscillator which can be operated up to 50 feet from control unit. Call 609-538-8586 ext. 232;...

Induction heating.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Pillar Induction Company Our wide range of industry experience includes applications such as heat treating, melting, brazing, soldering, bonding, and many others. Worldwide sales and service offices. Pillar Induction Company, 21905 Gateway...

Vacuum furnaces.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... PV/T Inc. Extensive standard and custom designs, backed by four decades of experience. Vacuum induction melting & casting. Vacuum brazing & heat processing. Phone: 856-235-5400; Fax: 856-273-0303; email: sales@pvt-vf.com; www.pvt-vf.com....

Radyne vertical induction scanner.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Radyne Corp. Radyne Power Integrated Dual Spindle Vertical Scan Heat Treating System is computer controlled and can heat treat shafts from 3 to 60 inches long with a total weight of up to 500 Ib. at speeds from 0 to 12 inches per second....

Transformers and inductors.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Warner Power Warner Power designs and manufactures custom transformers, inductors, power supplies and control panels for the industrial heating marketplace. Brochure and website detail Warner's capabilities, designs from 5 kW up to 2500...

Alloy castings and fabrications.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Alcon Industries, Inc. Alcon's mission is to deliver the lowest overall cost option that meets your alloy needs by using experts no restricted to only cast or only fabricated parts. Your single source for ALLOY castings, fabrications and...

Heat-resistant furnace alloys.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Alloy Engineering & Casting Company Design and produce heat and corrosion resistant castings for furnace manufacturers, commercial heat treat companies and OEM in-house heat treat operations. An ISO9002 and QS9000 certified company, AECCO...

Replacement parts.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Pro-Tech Co. Pro-Tech Co. supplies high quality cast base grids, baskets and furnace replacement parts for your thermal processing furnaces. Our castings are designed with unique features that result in longer alloy life. Furnace fans,...

RA 602 CA[TM] alloy.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Rolled Alloys After more than 1,200 cycles, RA 602 CA is still in use at a captive heat treat shop in the southeastern United States. The grid is required to support loads weighing as much as 2,000 lbs. at temperatures reaching...

Kiln support beams.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Saint-Gobain Ceramics Literature details Hexoloy[R] Sa silicon carbide kiln support beams and tile, which offer true low mass design potential for high temperature furnace applications. Hexoloy SiC's excellent strength allows for reduction...

Replacement hot zones.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Schwarzkopf Technologies Corp. Offers the world's most technically advanced replacement hot zones (pure molybdenum, ML molybdenum, TZM molybdenum, tungsten, tantalum and PM 2000 superalloy), replacement heating elements, hearth assemblies...

Protective casing.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Universal Metal Hose On-line catalog of Universal's metal hose products including stainless stell casing and armor for thermocouple leads, fiber optics and control cables. Extra floppy, high tensile strength and bend restrictor...

USA Handbook.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Omega Engineering Inc. Over 100,000 products, all made in the U.S.A., are featured in this Handbook, including many Temperature, Pressure, Force, Flow, Level, pH, Conductivity, Humidity and Data Acquisition instruments. Load Cells, Panel...

Telefault II.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Protection Controls, Inc. 1/4 size, first-outage fault finder/annunciator (Tele-Fault II). Control and monitor pinpoints and signals first cause for any monitored limit, enabling repairman to proceed to failed position or equipment. It is...

Remote Vacuum Gauges.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... TELEVAC New space-saving Remote Vacuum Measurement Gauges feature patented sensor technology and offer the ideal solution for stand-alone applications where local read-out, relay control and analog output for data-acquisition or...

Vacuum furnace selection guide.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... G-M Enterprises An (8) eight page full color handout for prospective furnace buyers. The handout is a checklist of considerations when purchasing a new vacuum furnace. Please call for our "Guide to the Selection of Vacuum Furnaces", Phone:...

Technical User Group Conference.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Ipsen International, Inc. Ipsen's 8th Technical Heat Treating User Group Conference is scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, August 24-25, 2004 at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. To register and receive a brochure...

SiC heating elements.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Kanthal Heating Systems New GLOBAR SD performance includes high mechanical strength and a lower rate of reaction with process atmospheres--advantages for the ferrous, non-ferrous, glass and ceramics industries. GLOBAR SD can be supplied as...

Temperature measurement.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Nanmac Corporation Nanmac Corp., a leader in temperature measurement and control, has recently completed their Cd Handbook. This contains a catalog of advanced temperature sensors for industrial and research applications, as well as a...

Metal stress relieving/tempering.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Pyromaitre Pyromaitre has developed a process and equipment to stress relieve spring wire at very high speed. It is approved for automotive valve springs in America. The Pyro process is designed to be fast, precise and reject-free. Also...

Heat Treat Management System.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Surface Combustion, Inc. The Surface Combustion HTM--Heat Treat Management System interfaces furnace process control systems to personal computers. System allows for remote supervision of your heat treatment dept. and furnace(s) equipment...

Vacuum furnaces.(Literature Showcase)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Vacuum Furnace Systems Corp. New brochure describes the unique advantages of a firm dedicated exclusively to the science of vacuum furnace systems. VFS provides accurate quotes, delivers systems that meet expectations, and follows through...

Zeiss Axioskop 2 MAT microscope.(Literature Showcase)
May 1, 2004... Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Inc. Axioskop 2 MAT is accurate, fast and provides reproducible results. New high performance optics and improved reflectedlight beam path ensure unsurpassed image quality. Zeiss exclusive C-DIC interference contrast...

PV/T Inc., an Inductotherm Group Co.: vacuum melting and vacuum brazing applications.(Literature Feature)
May 1, 2004... PV/T, an engineering and manufacturing company that produces vacuum heating and melting furnace product lines serving applications in the production of advanced materials and components, has released its updated comprehensive catalog. The...

Industrial heating's WWWebsite Bookmarks.(Directory)
May 1, 2004... www.aecinternet.com "AEC/Heat & Cool provides a wide range of chilling, temperature control (heat/cool), reservoir pumping tank equipment and systems." www.airliquide.com www.airproducts.com Our experts understand your...

Ceramic Technology.(Technical Literature)
May 1, 2004... The American Ceramic Society (ACerS), Westerville, Ohio, published its premier issue of International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology, a new quarterly periodical that provides the most recent information on ceramic product development and...

High-Temperature Materials.(Technical Literature)
May 1, 2004... The latest edition of High Temperature Materials Handbook for electrical, structural and industrial applications is now available from Cotronics Corp., Brooklyn, N.Y. This completely revised edition includes the most up to date technical data...

Flow Measurement.(Technical Literature)
May 1, 2004... Thermal Instrument Co., Trevose, Pa., released a brochure entitled "Measuring Up To The Highest Standards In Flow Measurement," describing its in-line flow meters, probes with integral and remote microprocessor electronics. The 6-p brochure...

Titanium Alloys.(Technical Literature)
May 1, 2004... Titanium and Titanium Alloys Fundamentals and Applications, edited by Christoph Leyens and Manfred Peters, both of German Aerospace Research Center in Cologne, Germany, is now available from John Wiley & Sons. Following introductory chapters on...

Batch furnace.(Product Reviews)
May 1, 2004... BTU International The convection batch furnace has an eductor-driven convection flow from 200 to 1600[degrees]C (390 to 2910[degrees]F). It achieves the needed firing control to yield improved process and product uniformity for heavy load...

Gas-fired pallet furnace.(Product Reviews)
May 1, 2004... The Grieve Corp. No. 925 is a gas-heated, 2000[degrees]F (1095[degrees]C) pallet heat-treating furnace that has workspace dimensions of 30 in. wide X 48 in. deep X 36 in. high (760 mm X 1,219 mm X 915 mm). The furnace includes two...

Carbon control probes.(Product Reviews)
May 1, 2004... Marathon Sensors Inc. The Sentinel-FCP extractive carbon control package delivers carbon measurement for optimal control of heat-treating processes. It pairs an extractive lambda probe with the company's dual-loop process controller to...

Gas furnace control platform.(Product Reviews)
May 1, 2004... Texas Instruments Sensors & Controls DiagnosTECH[TM] is a gas furnace integrated ignition control platform that delivers advanced ignition control with fault code retention capability. The new control offers enhanced functions and...

Steel belt blaster.(Product Reviews)
May 1, 2004... Viking Corp. The 700S steel belt tumble blaster can handle large, hot castings with its 7 [ft.sup.3] of blasting capacity. It has a 20-in. (508 mm) lip type air wash separator, cast elevator buckets and a heavy duty lower auger. The 700S...

Electronic scaling system.(Product Reviews)
May 1, 2004... Clearwater Enviro Technologies The UL Listed ScaleBlaster eliminates formation of lime scale deposits without the need of water softening equipment, salts, chemicals or maintenance. The integrated circuitry system produces a complex...

New radiant material.(Product Reviews)
May 1, 2004... Kanthal Kanthal introduces its APMT tube material, developed using its advanced powder metallurgy technology for use in gas and electrically heated furnaces. The new material grade has improved hot strength at temperature to 1250[degrees]C...

Furnace monitoring system.(Product Reviews)
May 1, 2004... Binary Process Solutions The company's computer software system can monitor and control every furnace in a heat-treating facility. All lot data recipes, set points and alarm data can be entered from a bar code on the traveler to minimize...

High velocity burners.(Product Reviews)
May 1, 2004... Eclipse Inc. The ThermJet burner line has been extended with the addition of the ThermJet PCA burner for preheated combustion air operation. It accepts preheated air in the temperature range of 1,000[degrees]F (540[degrees]C) to achieve...

Power controllers.(Product Reviews)
May 1, 2004... Avatar Instruments The company has received UL and cUL listings for all series CP multizone SCR power controllers. The controllers range from 2 to 8 zones with ratings of 10 to 250 A at 12 to 600 Vac. The multizone SCR controls save...

Weld scan probes.(Product Reviews)
May 1, 2004... Zetec Inc. The new line of +Point[R] weld scan probes can detect both transverse and longitudinal cracks within a weld or structural component. The probes, combined with Zetec's battery-operated, hand-held tester (MIZ[R]-21B), create a...

Microporous silica insulation.(Product Reviews)
May 1, 2004... ZIRCAR Ceramics, Inc. The MICROSIL microporous silica thermal insulation has low density, which minimizes conductive heat transfer, and nano-pockets that block convection and reflect heat energy back to its source. The insulation is a...

Temperature and process controller.(Product Reviews)
May 1, 2004... Brighton Electronics The AccuCon7600 microprocessor-based universal input temperature and process controller provides versatility and accuracy and includes fuzzy logic, PID with auto-tune, universal input, universal output and...

Materials testing system.(Product Reviews)
May 1, 2004... ADMET Inc. MTESTWindows[TM] is a materials testing system for tension and compression testing that controls electrohydraulic and electromechanical test frames and records test results. It is a software program that runs on personal...