What On Earth Is This?

What On Earth Is This?

Recently we did an appraisal of some operating heat treat furnaces which included a number of vacuum furnaces. Amongst the items we looked at was this furnace, one which still has us scratching our heads. At first glance it appeared pretty standard, an older VFS...
Can-Eng To Supply Rapid Heating Furnace

Can-Eng To Supply Rapid Heating Furnace

“Can-Eng Furnaces International Limited was recently awarded a contract from a research organization for the supply of a Rapid Heating Furnace to be used for Light Weight Hot Stamping & Formed Aluminum Automotive Component product development. This organization...
Michael Cousin/Diablo Furnaces, LLC

Michael Cousin/Diablo Furnaces, LLC

Looks like Michael Cousin very recently started with furnace manufacturer Diablo Furnaces, LLC., in Machesney Park, Illinois, USA as Director of Technology.  Michael has had a long distinguished history in the heat treating industry having worked at companies such as...
Monday Morning Briefing

Monday Morning Briefing

For today August 18, 2019 we are going to start out with an updated news item from Germany. Bach in March of this year we mentioned that Jens Baumann & Edgar Falkowski in Germany had parted ways with controls company UPC (the UPC ad can be found on the right side...
Distortion and its possible causes

Distortion and its possible causes

Distortion and its possible causesThe heat treatment of steel is necessary in order to manipulate the mechanical strength and metallurgy of the steel the manipulation of physical characteristics of the steel is necessary for prior machining and for the successful...