Solar Manufacturing & Marstate Industrial Corporation to Supply Vacuum Furnaces
“Sellersville, PA October 11, 2024 Solar Mfg. Solar Manufacturing, Inc. designs and manufactures a wide variety of vacuum heat treating, sintering, and brazing furnaces. They offer replacement hot zones, spare parts, and professional service. Marstate Industrial Corp of Taiwan supplies industrial heat-treating furnaces primarily for the Asian markets. Andy Chen is the general manager of Marstate Industrial Corp since he founded the company in 1988. Marstate Industrial Corp and Solar Mfg. have collaborated on numerous furnace projects over the past two decades to provide state-of-the-art vacuum heat-treating furnaces to Asian aerospace and aircraft engine manufacturers. Recently the two companies formed a joint partnership to design and build three identical vacuum heat-treating furnaces for a well-established aerospace company in Taiwan. The furnaces major components will be shipped from Solar Mfg’s plant in Pennsylvania to Marstate Industrials facility in Taiwan where a crew of experienced Marstate technicians will assemble the furnaces one at a time. Marstate’s engineers, along with Solar Mfg. Field Service Technicians will perform commissioning and testing on each of the furnaces as they are brought online.
The three (3) furnaces are Solar Mfg. Models VBL-7072-2EQ. They will feature a Molybdenum and Stainless Steel shielded hot zones measuring 60” diameter X 72” high, capable of operating temperatures of up to 2400°F, and a workload weight capacity of up to 5,000 lbs. The furnaces will be provided with the SolarVac® Polaris PLC-based control & automation systems featuring the Allen-Bradley CompactLogix PLC, Eurotherm digital recorder, and an HMI/industrial PC utilizing Wonderware supervisory software for recipe storage, alarm management, and data acquisition functions. The external gas cooling systems will consist of 150 HP drive motor/fan assemblies, and variable frequency drives capable of quenching workloads at 2 bar positive pressure.
The major components of the first of three furnaces have recently shipped to Marstate, and they are ready to receive this shipment and will complete the assembly of the furnace at their facility. Upon completion of the furnace at Marstate facility, the furnaces will be dismantled and delivered to the end users facility. Marstate expects the first furnace to be operational in early 2025.
Solar Manufacturing designs and manufactures a wide variety of vacuum heat treating, sintering, and brazing furnaces. They offer replacement hot zones, spare parts, and professional service. To learn more about this project by Solar Manufacturing, contact Rick Jones, International Sales Manager, at 267-384- 5040 x1533, or via email [email protected] or visit us at solarmfg.com.”
