SECO/VACUUM’s retort nitriding furnaces achieve optimum results by using uniform high convection heating, precision nitriding potential and ammonia control, along with vacuum purging to reduce operating costs to process a variety of metals. The proprietary ZeroFlow® control technology uses only ammonia as a process gas thereby reducing gas usage and gas emissions. SECO/VACUUM’s Manager Director, Peter Zawistowski, said, “We are very pleased to collaborate with this precision manufacturer to enable new state-of-the-art nitriding and nitrocarburizing capabilities in their Canadian facility. The ZeroFlow® pit retort furnace with vacuum purge incorporates a unique process developed by SECO/WARWICK to enable precision nitriding at lower cost and with lower emissions than legacy technologies.”
The new pit nitriding furnace is significantly larger than SECO/VACUUM’s standard maximum size. At 175″ deep, it’s nearly 80% deeper than the standard 98″ furnace. With a working temperature range of 300° – 1,300°F (150° – 700°C) and temperature uniformity of +/-5°, the furnace boasts the lowest ammonia consumption in the industry and includes a burn-off stack to neutralize gas emissions from the system, making it the most environmentally responsible nitriding furnace in the industry. Component manufacturers and in-house heat treating departments in aerospace and land-based turbine markets frequently process long, oversized, dense power transmission components, and SECO/VACUUM’s Pit Nitriding furnace with vacuum purge is the modern option for achieving precision nitriding with the lowest emissions possible.”
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The firm has a reasonably large sintering department which includes a total of 5 mesh belt sintering furnaces and support equipment. We mention the company today as they very recently appointed a new Sintering Manager, Mr. Roy Seltzer who has had a long career in the heat treatment industry. Roy spent over 20 years with commercial heat treater Advanced Heat Treating Inc., in PA as plant manager before a short stint as Plant Manager at Paulo in Kansas City, Missouri. We searched through our records and found this related press release which Sintergy issued back in September 2020.
The team at Sintergy is pleased with the level of control that the new system gives them and said that they were only seeing ±1°F in dewpoint variation from setpoint. Abbott has included all the improvements you would expect to see in new equipment today including state of the art controls with Allen Bradley PLC, data logging, dewpoint and methane sensors and updated gas safety system.”
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“The Monty Heat Treat News” has been proud to work closely with our host Mr. Carlos Torres to present to you “The Heat Treat Podcast”, which has had very interesting discussions with some of the most experienced, knowledgeable and dare we say it-most interesting individuals in the heat treatment industry. It is now time to wrap it up for the year but we promise you some very interesting and surprising guests in the upcoming year.
“An amazing year for THE HEAT TREAT PODCAST with the best players in the industry, I’m Carlos Torres and today we want to share all the personal advice we receive from each of our wonderful guests. See you next year with more power players in the heat treat industry. https://lnkd.in/eaVaC3zY
Thanks to all the guests: Jim Oakes Tracy Dougherty Damian Bratcher Andres Bernal John Hubbard, P.E. John R. (Chip) Keough, PE, FASM Chad Wright Dennis Beauchesne Lars Reich Gord Montgomery Raman Bawa Mike Long Doug Puerta Heather Falcone Paul Cairney Greg Steiger Ryan Fussell Chuck Thomas Jason Orosz Andrew Orr James Orr Karen Stanton Charlie Joe, P.E. Ben Rassieur Jim Senne William “Bill” Andreski Steve Maus Michael A. Coburn George Smith Andreas Fritz Janusz Kowalewski Daniel Herring Bill Heckman Fred Hamizadeh Nathan Wright Josh Harvey Ron Waligora Kyle Favors Kathy Hayrynen”
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Controls company Super Systems Europe (SSE) based in Birmingham, UK has just appointed a new Sales Director. Mr. Stephen Biggs has just joined the company and in this position he will be handling sales for the company throughout Europe. Stephen brings with him many years of sales experience including time with PhoenixTM, a TUS specialist and Thermal Profiling company.
Very recently we had the opportunity to visit SSE in Birmingham and the result was this brief summary of the company along with a photo of part of the SSE team. “Super Systems Europe (SSE); Welcome to the Super Systems Europe team based in Birmingham, UK. Global furnace controls company SSi is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA and has operations in Mexico, China and the UK-the UK team (SSE) is shown in this photo. Headed by Matt Cross the company has been offering sales, service and support to the European heat treatment industry for many years now. While SSE is in the UK the company has a far reaching team of direct sales people and independent reps covering all of Europe. During our visit the SSE team showed us incredible hospitality, in particular Mr. Robert Wilcox, Sales Manager who made us feel very much at home. From Left to Right; Gord Montgomery Dani, Karina, Matt Cross, Martyn, Brett, Robert Wilcox”
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In addition Thomas also recently became Chief Executive Officer at Berndorf Innovations & Technology GmbH (Berndorf Group is the parent company of Aichelin and Berndorf Innovations & Technology).
In related news “The Monty Heat Treat News” mentioned in October of this year that Michael Reisner had been appointed Managing Director at Aichelin in Mödling, Austria which was the position which Thomas previously held.
“October 2021 Press Release; Michael Reisner Appointed Managing Director Aichelin, Mödling, Austria; Aichelin, one of the largest furnace builders in the world recently appointed Mr. Michael Reisner to be Managing Director of their manufacturing facility in Mödling, Austria. As a sales professional, Michael Reisner was most recently managing director of a refractory group and has been in contact with “hot” topics for years. Michael will be succeeding Mr. Thomas Dopler. In this capacity he will be on a par with Mr. Bill Disler who is CEO of the Aichelin facility in North America, AFC-Holcroft in Wixom, Michigan.”
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To support R&D and additive manufacturing projects, Solar Atmospheres of California (SCA) has added some much–needed small vacuum furnace capacity to their expansive equipment offerings. The new vacuum furnace was procured from SCA’s furnace manufacturing sister facility, Solar Manufacturing (SAMI) located in Sellersville, PA, and was specifically designed to process a variety of materials between 600°F – 2400°F (+/-10°F) in both vacuum and/or partial pressure environments. Precise cooling capability up to 2-Bar in argon, nitrogen or helium is available with a maximum operating temperature up to 2650°F. The furnace is also equipped with the SAMI’s state-of-the-art SolarVac® Polaris Control System for optimum performance and precise cycle control.
SCA President Derek Dennis states, “We are pleased to add this needed piece of vacuum furnace equipment to service our valuable customers. The additive manufacturing industry continues to grow, and this new furnace will allow SCA to respond to small builds and R&D projects quickly and precisely. SCA has become the go-to source for additive heat treating on the west coast and we want to make sure we are making the necessary investments to support our customers immediate needs and requirements. SCA will continue to focus on the best quality and on-time delivery with a focus on providing the best customer service in the industry. SCA has plans to add additional equipment in the future to ensure that we have the capacity available to handle the rebounding industry post–COVID.”
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Since 1999 “The Monty” has been publishing annually a list of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America based upon annual sales, our 2021 list can be found at https://themonty.com/articles/50-largest-north-american-commercial-heat-treats-2021-2/ This year readers will see we became much more ambitious and expanded the list to the 50 largest. In our 43rd spot we have Contour Hardening, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Contour Hardening, Indianapolis, Indiana. Contour was established in 1986 with the goal of providing a cost-effective solution to difficult heat treatment applications-specifically induction hardening systems. However the company is also known as a substantial commercial heat treater. Contour is located in Indianapolis, Indiana with a second location in Sialo, Mexico. While primarily known for their Induction hardening expertise Contour also offers gas nitriding and Nitrocarburizing.
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Earlier this year “The Monty Heat Treat News” had an exclusive article about a multi-million dollar order for new furnaces, quite possibly the largest new furnace order in North America in 2021. As a follow up to that article we have received this press release from one of the suppliers, SECO/WARWICK explaining what their involvement in the project is-to which we would have to say congratulations on a very impressive order.
We can add that the customer is a Canadian based supplier of extrusion dies with locations around the world and that the total furnace order involved more than one supplier due to different technologies. We can also add that at least in the case of the Canadian division it has been operating fluidized bed furnaces for as long as we can remember-which goes back quite some time now.
A principal maker of tooling for the aluminum extrusion industry with operations in North and South America has pulled the trigger on a massive overhaul to its heat treating operations in three locations, replacing much of its legacy equipment with modern day technology. The customer has committed a multi-million dollar purchase to modernize heat treating operations in its Canada, USA and Mexico plants.
The order consists of four (4) Vector® single chamber gas quench vacuum furnaces, six (6) tempering furnaces, and one (1) ZeroFlow® pit-type gas nitriding furnace. The Mexico plant will benefit from brand new heat treating capacity, while the USA and Canada plants will be augmented with new vacuum heat treating technology, in one case replacing its legacy fluidized bed operations with 21st century technology. Each site will also receive various upgrades to their water cooling and gas distribution systems with a full turnkey system installation to wrap things up.
The customer recognized that reliance on older gas-fired atmosphere combustion technology could not continue to move its mission forward. With more advanced vacuum heat treat technologies than any other manufacturer in the world, SECO/VACUUM was able to offer a total, comprehensive solution comprising multiple furnaces in multiple configurations to meet their needs for a clean, efficient future.
- Vector® single-chamber high-pressure gas quench (HPGQ) furnace, is the flexible choice to meet the needs of the many jobs in-house heat treating operations routinely perform. Vector is the single-chamber vacuum furnace of choice for toolmakers around the globe.
- ZeroFlow®, gas nitriding furnaces use only ammonia as a process gas, delivering precision nitriding potential with minimal gas emissions for clean, consistent, high quality results every time. Upgrading to clean ZeroFlow technology not only improves the customer’s process consistency, it allows them to reduce the environmental impact from their heat treatment activities.
- SECO/VACUUM’s tempering furnaces complete the loop by complementing the other vacuum technologies for high consistency and productivity. Integrating SECO/VACUUM tempering furnaces ensures technology compatibility as well as consistency in aftermarket support.
Tool and die manufacturers around the world are recognizing the unequivocal value of upgrading their operations with vacuum heat treatment technologies, and SECO/VACUUM makes it possible to source all-vacuum technologies from a single integrated supplier.In addition to basic environmental improvements – both in the plant and to the planet as a whole – tooling makers are recognizing the advantages of vacuum furnace technologies in increased productivity, more consistent tooling quality and performance, and savings to their bottom line.
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“Meapforni is in the assembly phase of a mesh belt furnace line for fasteners which will be delivered next year. The fully automatic line has a capacity of 1000 kg/hour, pre and post washing, a high heat gas carburizing furnace and an electric temper.”
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