From West Lafayette, Ohio, USA we have this news item about captive/commercial heat treater Jones Metal Products having a new owner. As it happens we are quite familiar with this company and in 2018 we had a note about the company entitled; “Jones Metal Products-Do...
A year ago we visited Aichelin in Austria for a tour of their facility and one of the items that the company was very proud of was a relatively new product for them something called “heatXpress”. This is a step chain conveyor furnace with press hardening...
“Premier/BeaverMatic Spray/Dunk Washers were recently manufactured and shipped from Premier’s new 40,000 Ft² manufacturing facility in Farmington Hills, MI. The repeat customer is an international aerospace firm, this facility is in southeastern US. The Spray/Dunk...
Back in 2016 the worlds largest commercial heat treater acquired privately owned Syracuse Heat Treating in Syracuse, NY in what was an excellent fit for both companies. July 2017 the facility suffered a devastating fire as you can read about in this press...
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 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...
