“Leading furnace servicing company Vacuum & Atmosphere Services has earned its official gas registration after two engineers achieved their qualifications. VAS, based in Middlemore Road, Smethwick, is now on the Gas Safe Register, the UK’s only official registration body for gas businesses and engineers, after Michael Day and Daniel Perry passed their training courses.
VAS can operate gas services, registered as meeting Gas Safe Register standards, after the duo reached the accredited standards. Under Gas Safe Register rules, an engineer can only be aligned to a registered business and be issued with a licence to undertake gas work on their behalf if they hold a valid and current qualification.
Daniel has progressed after joining VAS as an apprentice in 2016, while Michael has been with the company for three years. The pair achieved the necessary qualifications by completing the external courses, which required extensive off-site work and stringent examinations, all conducted over a six month period.
Andy Nisbet, Quality & Health & Safety Manager for VAS, said he was impressed by the duo’s level of commitment in completing their qualifications during the Covid-19 pandemic. Andy said: “Daniel and Michael have shown great dedication in doing their courses given the challenges we have all been working under in recent months.
“VAS is now a registered Gas Safe company, which means we can offer services around installations and repairs for clients. The business has invested in Daniel and Michael’s studies and will see the benefit as we move forward. It is great to have them both on the team.”
VAS launched in 2000 to offer services for vacuum and atmosphere furnaces, before the company progressed to offer the complete service package to the heat treatment industry, from bespoke new furnaces to spare parts.
Originally started by two engineers, the company now employs 31 staff and provides furnace services for a range of clients including Mercedes, GE Power, Moog and Collins Aerospace.
The caption for the photo below is: VAS Managing Director Mike Long, right, congratulates from left Michael Day and Daniel Perry.
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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 42nd spot we have Zion Industries.
Zion Industries based in Ohio is rather unique in that it is part of a very select group of commercial heat treaters, a group which focuses on Induction Heat Treating. “Zion Industries is an induction heat treating company that has been an industry leader since its founding in 1977. We provide high quality both in heat treating services and handling equipment for induction heating applications. Zion, like so many others, strives for excellence in service and quality. What distinguishes us is our primary motivation: Excellence that brings glory to God. We care about our customers, and are committed to the services we provide. Our goal is to meet the outsourcing needs of the manufacturing industry by delivering unmatched customer service and enhancing value for all stakeholders. Today Zion’s 100+ employees serve customers nationwide with facilities in Ohio, North Carolina and Michigan. We also serve clients from Pennsylvania (PA), Indiana (IN), Tennessee (TN), and Kentucky (KY).”
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While “The Monty Heat Treat News” mentioned this a few weeks back we now have the official press release from Delta H about their new Director of Sales, Ms. Rosanne Brunello.
“DELTA H TECHNOLOGIES is proud to announce the appointment of Rosanne Brunello as the company’s new Director of Sales. This announcement comes at an incredibly exciting time for the company as they conclude another record year of growth including several new job creations and prepare for an additional year of aggressive growth in 2022.
Rosanne is the latest addition to DELTA H’s growing Senior Management Team. She will manage sales operations at DELTA H and play a key role in the development of strategies to provide exceptional customer service and best-in-class products. Current products include single and multi-chamber heat treat furnaces, horizontal quench furnaces, industrial walk-in ovens, and cabinet ovens. These furnaces and ovens are designed to perform a wide variety of heat-treating applications including solution heat-treating, annealing, aging (precipitation hardening), tempering, and curing.
Ellen Conway Merrill, Vice President of DELTA H states, “Rosanne brings years of knowledge and experience not only from the industrial furnace and commercial heat treating industries but also in the aerospace industry which makes up a significant portion of our clientele. From the moment I met Rosanne a few years ago, I knew she was special. Her energy is exhilarating, and her business acumen is immediately obvious to anyone she meets. In fact, it was the synergy between us that led to us Co-Founding the group, Women in Heat Treat, in late 2019—which is continuing to develop more and more members every day. When the opportunity presented itself to offer this newly created position at DELTA H to Rosanne, I couldn’t have jumped on it any faster. She’s a perfect fit for our “family” here at DELTA H and we are very excited and honored to have her on our team.”
As for Rosanne, she feels as if she is “home”. “It’s my desire to continue and build upon the legacy already started by Richard Conway and his family. Their singular focus on pleasing the customer with fast, courteous, knowledgeable products and services is a passion for me,” commented Ms. Brunello.
Rosanne has spent most of her career in the aerospace industry. Given DELTA H’s already strong reputation in this industry and its growing presence in other emerging markets, Ms. Brunello’s skills will help the company accomplish its goal of far exceeding customer expectations.”
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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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