AFC-Holcroft Furnaces Installed, Commissioned in China
AFC-Holcroft and partner company Shanghai Powermax are pleased to announce the commissioning of several large orders received in China. Bodycote Wuxi has started production on their latest AFC-Holcroft furnace, with the entire line now consisting of (6) AFC-Holcroft/PowerMax UBQ 36-48-36 furnaces and companion equipment. A large international supplier of bearings, with plant located in China, has...
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Sossner Steel Stamps Sets up Two Lucifer Furnaces
Lucifer Furnaces, Inc. has supplied Sossner Steel Stamps, manufacturer of high quality, precision engineered marking and decoration stamps, with both a heat treating furnace and an industrial oven for their facility in Elizabethton, Tennessee. The high temperature box furnace with chamber dimensions of 12 x 12" x 18" will be used to harden their precision machined high speed steel tool and die...
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Gas-Heated Box Furnace reached max temperature of 2,000°F.
Suited for heat treating and high temperature testing applications, No. 871 features 650,000 BTU/hr installed in 3 modulating natural gas burners with floor-mounted combustion air blower. Unit's 7 in. insulated walls are comprised of 5 in. of 2,300°F ceramic fiber and 2 in. of 1,700°F block insulation, while 6Â-½ in. floor insulation is made of 4½ in. of 2,300°F...
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Bodycote Re-Routes Complete AFC-Holcroft Furnace Line to Mexico
Bodycote Thermal Processing, the largest heat treating company in the world, has installed two new UBQ integral quench batch furnaces and support equipment in its Silao, Mexico plant. The complete line of AFC-Holcroft equipment will now consist of: (4) UBQ Universal Batch Quench furnaces with top cool, (4) UBT Temper Furnaces, (1) UBTN Nitrogen Temper, (2) UBW Universal Batch Washers , a UBTC...
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CMAA Crane Buyer's Guide
CMAA has organized this Buyer's Guide to promote standardization and to assist prospective buyer's of electric overhead traveling cranes in selection of equipment most suitable for their applications.
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Spheric Technologies' High-Temperature Continuous Production Microwave Furnace Now Operating at Alfred University NanoMaterials Innovation Center; First in Western Hemisphere
Phoenix, AZ - The Western Hemisphere's first high-temperature (1500° C) continuous production microwave furnace is now fully functional at New York's NanoMaterials Innovation Center (NMIC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Alfred Technology Resources, Inc. (ATRI), near the campus of Alfred University. The announcement came from Spheric Technologies, Inc., the Arizona company that sold the...
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EU PVSEC 2010 in Valencia - Rehm Thermal Systems Shows Solar Equipment for Metallization Lines
Rehm Thermal Systems presents an advanced new series of drying systems and firing systems for solar cell metallization at EU PVSEC in Valencia, September 6-9, 2010. These Systems offer a range of advanced process features and thermal control that enable PV manufacturers to move their processes to an entirely new level of efficiency and yield. Solardryer RDS 2100 and RDS 3000 The drying process...
Read More »AFC-Holcroft Supplies Equipment to Process Wind Energy Gearboxes for Wind Energy
AFC-Holcroft is pleased to announce the receipt of a new furnace order for a sealed quench furnace line that will be used to process specialized components utilized in the wind energy market. The furnace line is based on AFC-Holcroft's standard, modular UBQ (Universal Batch Quench) family of products, but was modified to optimize its efficiency for the mix of products required by this customer....
Read More »Solar Manufacturing Receives Order for New Large Horizontal Vacuum Furnace
SOUDERTON, Pa--Solar Manufacturing announces it has received an order for a large horizontal vacuum furnace from a major high purity metals and alloy producer serving the aerospace, aircraft and medical industries. Primary application for the furnace will be a dehydriding process. The furnace is a Solar Manufacturing Model HFL-6660-EQ horizontal, front loading design with a work zone that...
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Thermal Technology Receives Order for Spark Plasma Sintering System
SANTA ROSA, Calif., July 20, 2010 - Thermal Technology recently received an order from a European customer for a large, laboratory scale Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) system with 25 tons of force and a 10,000 amp power supply. Thermal Technology's SPS systems are designed with highly rigid four post press frames, an extra large working chamber and large access doors. The flexible footprint...
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Vertical Top-Loading Vacuum Furnace is suited for R/D work.
Featuring 7.5 in. dia x 14 in. high Hot Zone and max operating temperature is 3,000°F, Model VTL-714 is suited for homogenizing and heat treating refractory alloys, performing diffusion couple experiments, and other proprietary heat treat work. Furnace employs graphite heating elements; 35 cfm, 2-stage vacuum pumping system; graphite felt and FlexShield hot face insulation; and partial gas...
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Gorbel Introduces New Mobile Fall Protection Unit
Providing adequate fall protection is always a critical consideration and one that in many cases can be difficult to ensure. The new Mobile Fall Protection Unit is designed to facilitate positive fall protection in applications that would typically be difficult or impossible to provide with standard methods. To learn all about the advantages and convenience, see our video.
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