Vacuum Furnaces Technical Content
Ask the Heat Treat Doctor®: What are the Heat Tint Colors for Stainless Steel and When Do They Form?
Ask The Heat Treat Doctor® has returned to bring sage advice to Heat Treat Today readers and to answer your questions about heat ...
Heat Treat Radio #134: Optimizing Power Delivery in Thermal Processing
In this episode of Heat Treat Radio, host Heather Falcone sits down with Casey O'Neill, vice president of Sales and Marketing at ...
Heat Treat Radio #133: Process Qualification & Recipe Development in Vacuum Carburizing
Heat Treat Radio host Heather Falcone and guest Vincent Lelong, Senior Synergy Center Manager and Metallurgist at ECM USA, explore the realities ...
Utilization: The Hidden Sustainability Metric in Heat Treatment
As manufacturers push toward ambitious sustainability targets, heat treatment remains both essential and energy intensive, making efficiency gains critical. In this ...
Optimized Heat Treat Results Start with Optimized Cleaning
Optimized heat treat performance starts long before parts reach the furnace. In this Technical Tuesday installment, Chris Tivnan of SAFECHEM North ...
Robotic Material Handling in Heat Treatment
Manual loading and batch transfers are giving way to robotic material handling in modern heat treat operations. In this Technical Tuesday ...
Improve Vacuum Quench, Maximize Tool Life
Vacuum furnaces performing hardening have been in use for over 50 years, yet many heat treaters may not be taking full ...
Hypersonics Come Alive with Vacuum and Controlled Atmosphere Furnaces
Hypersonic vehicles and missiles operating at Mach 5 and beyond place unprecedented thermal and environmental demands on aerospace materials. In this ...
Vacuum Furnaces News
Commercial Heat Treater Launches Vacuum Hardening Operation
Kalírna Desire is opening a new commercial heat treat facility in a region that has so far lacked local infrastructure for ...
Vacuum Heat Treat Capacity Grows in Northeast
Solar Atmospheres, a commercial heat treater, is preparing to expand vacuum heat treating capacity in the Northeastern United States as construction ...
Vacuum Arc Remelting Supports Aerospace Casting
A titanium casting manufacturer is expanding its vacuum melting capacity with the installation of a vacuum arc remelting consumable casting furnace, ...
Vacuum Degassing Plant to Boost Steel Quality
A new vacuum degassing plant is expected to increase meltshop performance and capacity while enabling the production of a larger volume ...
Vacuum Heat Treat Capacity Grows for Metal AM
AGF DEFCOM, a metal additive manufacturing company, has expanded its vacuum heat treating capacity with the addition of a second furnace, ...
New Vacuum Furnace Serves Turbine Production
A commercial heat treater is expanding its vacuum heat treating capabilities for gas turbine components with the addition of a high-performance ...
Fringe Friday: Buffalo Project Supports Advanced Materials Processing
We’re celebrating getting to the “fringe” of the weekend with a Heat Treat Fringe Friday installment: the completion of a strategic ...
New Furnaces Boost Vacuum Brazing Capacity
Wall Colmonoy has expanded its vacuum brazing capacity with the addition of new vacuum furnaces, supporting the production of aerospace and ...
12-Foot Vacuum Furnace Expands Titanium Processing Capacity
Solar Atmospheres, a North American commercial heat treating company, has expanded its vacuum heat treating and titanium processing capabilities with the ...
Strip Casting Systems Support Magnet Production
New strip casting systems for rare-earth magnet manufacturing are expected to support thermal processing operations tied to neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnet production ...
Vacuum Furnace Builder Goes from Kitchen Startup to Employee Ownership
Signature Vacuum Systems, a small manufacturer of vacuum furnace equipment, recently implemented an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT), placing partial ownership of ...
New Vacuum Furnace Supports Aerospace Heat Treating at U.S. Facility
A U.S.-based aerospace manufacturer is expanding its heat treat capabilities for bearing components with the addition of vacuum heat treatment processes, ...
Andis Vacuum Furnace Controls Get An Upgrade
Andis Company, a U.S.-based manufacturer of grooming tools, has completed a controls upgrade on a vacuum heat treat furnace used for ...
AM Drives Hypersonic Engine Development Demand
Aerospace firm Velontra is leveraging metal additive manufacturing (AM) technology to support hypersonic propulsion development. Their choice of laser powder bed ...
Fringe Friday: US Lab Selects PGA Platform for New Materials Initiative
We’re celebrating getting to the “fringe” of the weekend with a Heat Treat Fringe Friday installment: a plasma gas atomization (PGA) platform selected by ...
Vacuum Furnace Boosts Tool Steel Processing
Treatnorte, a commercial heat treatment company, will add a new vacuum furnace to support vacuum heat treatment of tool steel, improving ...
Allied Graphite Develops Vertical Furnace Systems
Allied Graphite, a U.S.-based graphite materials manufacturer, is advancing the high-temperature thermal processing of its battery-grade material with a new technology ...
Custom VIM System Enhances Turbine Blade Production
An aircraft engine manufacturer has purchased a custom-built vacuum induction melting (VIM) furnace to support the production of equiaxed (EQ) turbine ...
