A global provider of industrial furnace controls and process automation solutions announced a new collaboration with a leading industrial gas company that combines the core competencies of each company into a comprehensive offering for heat treatment customers. Praxair Inc is based in Danbury, Connecticut, and produces and distributes atmospheric, process, and specialty gases and high-performance surface coatings. Customers will have access to Praxair’s gases, application technologies, and supply systems, along with United Process Control Inc’s portfolio of specialized industrial flow measurement and atmosphere control products. This continues the long-standing relationship between Praxair and Atmosphere Engineering Company, now a member of UPC, based in West Chester, Ohio.

The combined capabilities of the two companies will bring more end-to-end technologies for a broad spectrum of batch and continuous heat-treating processes such as carburizing, carbonitriding, neutral hardening, annealing, gas quenching, and heat-treatment applications under vacuum processing.

“The automotive and aerospace industries continue to expand requirements for heat treating,” said Steve Mueller, Praxair’s Associate Director of Business Development for Metals and Materials Processing. “We have a team approach in place, combining Praxair’s process know-how and expertise in industrial gases with United Process Controls’ specialized products. Together we meet customers’ requirements for high-quality heat treating with reproducible standards in their furnace operations.”

“This strategic agreement with Praxair reflects our commitment to offer the heat-treating industry a complementary and evolving portfolio of innovative technologies that help drive process efficiency and reliability. We look forward to working closely with Praxair in the coming years, as we strive to further increase our presence in North America,” said Paul Oleszkiewicz, President, UPC.