Thursday, December 10 Mobex Global in Franklin, Indiana, USA will be auctioning off some surplus equipment including 3 Despatch Aluminum Drop Bottom Ovens. Quite often what you see at these auctions is tired, worn out old junk but in this case this is really nice looking equipment and our prediction is that it will sell and sell for a reasonable price; “HEAT TREAT SYSTEMS (3) DESPATCH Heat Treat Systems – SOLUTION 1000° Furnaces, Direct Gas Fired, 5 Million BTU, 8” Dia. Fa Duct, 9” x 16” Exhaust Duct, Full Close Damper, Purge Doors – Age Oven, Direct Gas Fired, 750,000 BTU, 338° Max Temp, Quarantine / Release Exhaust Hood & Platform – Load Cars on Tracks, Hoists for Quench Tank, Single Lateral Moving Quench Tank, MCC Cabinets & Panels.”
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We always hate hearing about fires in the industry but they are a common occurrence unfortunately. Ohio Metallurgical is a family owned company with a long, proud history in the heat treatment industry in the USA. From the
“Morning Journal” we have the story; “ELYRIA, Ohio – A fire broke out at Ohio Metallurgical Services in Elyria Monday night, causing $1 million in damages, according to the Elyria Fire Chief. Firefighters were called to Ohio Metallurgical Services, 1033 Street in Elyria. There were employees inside when the fire started, but all were accounted for and not injured. Four departments assisted in controlling the fire that caused damages to the building. The Ohio State Fire Marshal will investigate the fire Tuesday. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.”
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Today we go to India for a news item about commercial heat treater Technomet. Technomet is one of the larger heat treaters in India with a total of 15 sealed quench (batch IQ for us North Americans) and 20 vacuum furnaces spread over a number of different facilities around the country. November 5th of this year the company inaugurated a brand new facility called Bangalore Technomet Pvt Ltd., in the city of Bangalore. This is a partnership with gear manufacturer Bharat Gears Limited which will involve Technomet setting up two sealed quench furnaces manufactured by Triad Engineering inside the Bharat Gear plant in Lonand, Satara. The inauguration included a very typical Indian tradition of celebrating the start up by planting samplings and hanging flowers on the equipment as you can see in the photos below.
A number of years ago we at “The Monty” were involved in a similar ceremony also in Bangalore at the facilities of commercial heat treater HighTemp as you can see in the one photo below. The ceremony might appear rather odd to most North Americans but our feeling is that it is a very interesting custom and we enjoyed it.
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Familiar with oven builder Pyromaitre? Pyromaitre is based in Quebec City, Canada which is not exactly a hotbed of manufacturing but one of the nicest cities in North America in our opinion. The company has been around for a number of years and has made a real name for themselves in a very specialized market-tempering ovens largely for the spring industry. The company is very excited by the fact that they just produced their largest oven ever, a monster capable of processing 13 tons (30,000 pounds) per hour of product. This by the way means 1200 suspension springs per hour which is what the oven is needed for. The system has working dimensions of 110″ wide x 60′ long, is capable of 1,000 F with temperature uniformity of +-10F. It’s a pretty cool system and we congratulate the company.
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TAV Vacuum Furnaces of Italy will design, build and ship two horizontal vacuum heat-treatment and brazing furnaces to a manufacturer of aircraft structural components that specializes in spherical bearing solutions. The furnaces have useful dimensions of 600 mm wide x 600 mm high x 900 mm deep (23.5 x 23.5 x 35.5 inches) with a maximum gross charge of 600 kg (1,323 pounds). They have a maximum operating temperature of 2192°F (1200°C). An AMS 2750F-compliant SCADA system provides comprehensive furnace monitoring and control. The configuration of the furnaces enables quick and easy loading of different volumes.
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Yesterday we had a news item about Solar Atmospheres in South Carolina, USA installing a vacuum furnace as we speak. Well this is what it looks like now partway through being installed.
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Solar Atmospheres receives a 12 foot horizontal, car bottom-loading vacuum furnace, capable of processing up to 50,000 lbs of material. Below you can see the original tweet from Solar Manufacturing along with the video of them shipping the furnace.
12 foot horizontal, car bottom-loading vacuum furnace, capable of processing up to 50,000 lbs of material, painted and ready to go . . . shipping out to Solar Atmospheres in South Carolina.#vacuumfurnace #heattreating #thermalprocessing #furnaces pic.twitter.com/eFovNURMh0
— Solar Manufacturing (@SolarMfg) November 12, 2020
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As part of an occasional series about “Safety In a Heat Treatment Department” we present this cautionary tale involving austempering. Back in 2011 an individual working in the heat treat department of manufacturer Fisher Barton South Carolina, Inc., was tragically killed while adding salt to a molten salt bath at the end of a mesh belt austemper line. While standing above the open quench tank he lost his balance and fell into the quench tank and subsequently died-this is the OSHA report;
“Accident: 200375400 – Employee Is Killed In Fall Into Tank Of Molten Salt. Accident: 200375400 — Report ID: 0454510 — Event Date: 02/04/2011. Establishment Name; Fisher Barton South Carolina Inc. On February 4, 2011, Employee #1 was placing salt in a tank that was being prepared for production. He climbed on the side posts of the tank’s cover assembly, lost his balance, and fell into the tank of molten salt. Employee #1 was killed.”
It was such a terrible, avoidable death that we at “The Monty” have never forgotten the accident or the details. Fast forward to 2020 and we saw a simple, very ingenious system which would totally eliminate the chance of this sort of accident ever happening again.
What we witnessed at a captive heat treater with several mesh belt austemper lines was a completely automated system for adding salt to a molten salt bath. It consists of a vibrating hopper into which the bags of new salt are added (the vibrating feature is to break up the salt), the hopper feeds a small enclosed conveyor which delivers the salt into the covered tank through a 12″ diameter tube. The system allows the salt to be added without the quench tank ever being uncovered and completely eliminates the chance of anything falling into the tank and also eliminates the chance of “splash back”. The photo below shows the system. A simple ingenious idea which would have prevented a needless death.
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We see that long time ALD Vacuum Technologies employee Mr. Joachim Boss very recently received a well deserved promotion. Joachim was Sales Manager, Heat Treat for the company, recently he became Head of Heat Treatment. ALD based in Hanau, Germany is both a manufacturer of new furnace system, specializing in vacuum carburizing and also one of the largest commercial heat treaters in the world. Congratulations to Joachim.
In the USA Pontus Nilsson just became Business Development Manager for Quintus Technologies based out of Västerås Sweden and with US Headquarters in Columbus OH. When we think of Quintus we think of “HIP” systems (hot isostatic pressing) a technology which has been in the news quite a bit recently. Previous to this Pontus was Vice President, Sales and Marketing at GM Enterprises one of the larger suppliers of vacuum furnaces. Below you see a photo of Pontus along with a picture of a new Quintus HIP systems at Stack Metallurgical in Oregon. We at “The Monty” took this photo back in January of this year when we were privileged to be able be part of the grand opening of Stack’s new HIP facility.
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