21 Quick Heat Treat News Chatter Items To Keep You Current

Heat Treat Today offers News Chatter, a feature highlighting representative moves, transactions, and kudos from around the industry. Enjoy these 21 news bites that will help you stay up to date on all things heat treat.

Company Chatter

1. HarbisonWalker International (HWI), a North American supplier of refractory products and services, announced that its new Alabama One (AL1) manufacturing facility for steel customers in the southern United States is on track to open before the end of 2022.
2. Solar Atmospheres of Western PA announced their newly designed vacuum oil quench furnace (VOQ) has passed startup protocol
3. On July 6, Solar Atmospheres hosted over 40 high school students enrolled in the Summer Engineering Institute (SEI) at Lehigh University. The SEI program is a two-week residential program. Students are nominated by faculty of local high schools, and the program specifically targets students who might have limited opportunities to study in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). They received a tour of the campus that emphasized cutting-edge technologies in heat treating and manufacturing.
4. Advanced Heat Treat Corp. (AHT) announced the addition of UltraGlow® Induction Hardening at its location in Cullman, Alabama.
5. Pfeiffer Vacuum opened up a new 40,000 square foot facility May 13, 2022. This facility is located at 4037 Guion Lane, Indianapolis, IN.

Personnel Chatter

1. Advanced Heat Treat Corp. (AHT) announced that Chris Williams has joined as the new regional sales manager for its location in Cullman, AL.
2. Industrial Heating Equipment Association (IHEA) recently announced its 2022–2023 Board of Directors and Executive Officers. Serving as President is Jeff Valuck of Surface Combustion, Inc.; Vice-President is Brian Kelly of Honeywell Thermal Solutions; and Treasurer is Jeff Rafter of Selas Heat Technology Co. LLC. Scott Bishop of Alabama Power – a Southern Company assumes the Past President position.
3. IHEA welcomed to the Board of Directors Ben Gasbarre, the of Sales & Marketing for Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems, to the Board of Directors.
4. The Supervisory Board of Advanced Graphene Products has been formed, appointed by the Ordinary General Meeting on June 24, 2022. Peter Zawistowski, a graduate of the Częstochowa University of Technology, Kozminski University (MBA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Executive Program in General Management), became the new chairman of the Supervisory Board. Peter has been the managing director of SECO/VACUUM operating in the American market since 2017.
5. The Plibrico Company, a supplier of monolithic refractories and installation services, is excited to announce and welcome Shawn Story as its new engineering manager.

Kudos Chatter

1. Space-Lok, Inc. met the requirements of Nadcap accreditation and achieved approval for heat treating.
2. ALD Thermal Treatment, Inc.'s Port Huron facility received the General Motors Supplier Quality Excellence Award for outstanding quality performance for the 8th year in a row. Criteria for this award include zero official customer complaints for 12 months and quality performance of less than one defective part per million.
3. Advanced Heat Treat Corp. (AHT), a provider of heat treat services and metallurgical solutions, announced that it has renewed its Nadcap accreditation in heat treating (ion and gas nitriding) and passed its Aerospace Quality System (AC7004) audit. The company has also added additional AMS specifications to its scope: AMS2759/6 and AMS2759/12.
4. Braddock Metallurgical announced the renewal of a Nadcap accreditation at their Tampa, FL location. The administrator, , has also determined that the heat treater has gone beyond industry requirements and so earned Merit recognition.
5. SECO/WARWICK in India celebrated its fifth anniversary of its establishment in May, although they have been operating in that market since.
6. Metalex Thermal Specialties, a heat treat service provider, announced that it has achieved AS9100:2016 and ISO 9001:2015 certification for the quality management system implemented by its heat treating facility in Berthoud, CO.
7. Paulo’s Cleveland plant in Ohio has earned Honeywell approval for all HIP processing with no restrictions.
8. The MTI Educational Foundation announced that it awarded Eric Roth of Tucson, Arizona (University of Arizona) the $15,000 Founders Scholarship.
9. ITP Aero UK Limited was awarded their latest Nadcap certification for Heat Treating with full 24-month merit and accreditation length.
10. Maryam Razavipour, a senior engineer at Lumentum, was selected by the Heat Treating Society Board of ASM International for the 2022 HTS/Bodycote Best Paper Award for her paper, “Data-Driven Design Framework for Laser Heat Treatment Process of Cold Spray Coating.”

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