Maciej Korecki

Vacuum Furnace Designed Specifically for MRO Industry

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Aero Space Power, an MRO facility, has ordered a custom-made vacuum furnace to be utilized in repair solutions for both complex aircraft engines and gas turbines in the energy industry. 

Mark Peter Biro
Commercial Sales Manager at Aero Space Power
Source: LinkedIn

“We decided to acquire in-house heat treatment because we want to be independent in production. It will also give us much better control over the process and treated part quality," commented Mark Peter Biro, commercial sales manager, Aero Space Power. "By installing production capacity in-house and creating our own heat treatment department, we not only become independent from external suppliers, but we also significantly reduce transportation costs.” 

The furnace on order from SECO/WARWICK, a company with locations in North America, is unique due to the size of the heating chamber. It has been adapted to the Aero Space Power requirements and has a working area of 51" x 39" x 59" to enable heat treatment of large components up to 55" diameter especially large aircraft parts, as well as gas turbines for the energy sector. The custom technology on order, in addition to non-standard dimensions, is designed to process work in the presence of two gases: argon (used for partial pressure) and nitrogen, which is used mainly in the cooling process. A dew point sensor for each of the gases will be included with the furnace.

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Precision Electrical Components Manufacturer Adds 3 Vacuum Brazing Furnaces

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Maciej Korecki
Vice President of Business of the Vacuum Furnace Segment
SECO/WARWICK

A manufacturer of a wide variety of vacuum circuit breakers ordered vacuum furnaces for metal heat treatment. The circuit breakers must be brazed with high vacuum.

In 2017, the first furnaces provided were two SECO/WARWICK furnaces. The most recent expansion is three Vector vacuum furnaces that provide high vacuum level and temperature uniformity within the entire load.

"[T]he specificity of this electric power control production requires incredible precision. Circuit breakers need a high level of vacuum and temperature uniformity. They are brazed in vacuum furnaces in a very high vacuum; therefore, it was necessary to use an efficient pumping system consisting of a turbomolecular pump and a dry pump." Maciej Korecki, vice president of the Vacuum Products Segment at SECO/WARWICK Group, a manufacturer with North American locations.

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Industrial Automation Manufacturer Adds In-House Heat Treat Capabilities

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Maciej Korecki
Vice President of Business of the Vacuum Furnace Segment
SECO/WARWICK

An industrial automation manufacturer has ordered a heat treatment system to establish a captive hardening plant within their machine park. The line of two vacuum furnaces, an atmosphere furnace, and a washer will harden and carburize parts, specifically gears, pinions, and shafts.

SECO/WARWICK , a manufacturer with North American  locations, will produce the furnaces to harden and vacuum carburize the elements used in motor reducer production. These parts figure in the automation applications production process for industries such as automotive, aviation, food and printing.  

“In these times of constant problems with maintaining the supply chain, having captive heat treatment within a machine park provides our partners with a huge competitive advantage and independence," says Maciej Korecki, vice president of the Vacuum Furnaces Segment at SECO/WARWICK Group. "Within a relatively small area, we can create a heat treatment system that will meet the Partner’s needs."

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Heat Treater Expands with Vacuum Furnace

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HTD Size-PR LogoA Swiss commercial heat treater ordered a vacuum furnace. A system will increase the production capacity of their nickel and silver brazing processes.

Maciej Korecki
Vice President of Business of the Vacuum Furnace Segment
SECO/WARWICK

The SECO/WARWICK vacuum furnace helps with hardening larger size parts and significantly increases the efficiency of the current hardening plant. The furnace increases production. In the version ordered by the Swiss, a large working zone (36"X36"X48") with the potential to adjust to an oversized load utilizes the advantages of a round heating chamber.

“[With a] cooling capacity of 15 bar, it is possible to process parts that require very fast cooling . . . . Vector also allows the system to perform more difficult brazing processes with either nickel or silver," explains Maciej Korecki, vice president of the Vacuum Furnace Segment, at SECO/WARWICK Group. "This is our second installation with this partner. Previously, we delivered a solution from the SECO/WARWICK furnace family of a similar size, in a non-pressurized version."

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Hardening and Tempering Capabilities “Take Off” for Aviation Heat Treaters

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HTD Size-PR LogoA European machinery group will receive a vacuum furnace for hardening and tempering processes, and its design has been customized in order to meet the group’s need to harden aviation steel used as landing gear. The heat treatment solution will improve the process economy in European plants and is characterized, in part, by low energy consumption.

Maciej Korecki
Vice President of Business for the Vacuum Furnace Segment
SECO/WARWICK

To meet this particular application, SECO/WARWICK engineers fitted the Vector® vacuum furnace with a non-standard system for subquenching with liquid nitrogen that enables the required quick cooling down of landing gear components. The solution has also been expanded with a vacuum system designed with a diffusion pump and is equipped with a directional cooling option and convection heating system with a specially designed fan. 

“This is already the fourth purchase order for a furnace from this product segment from this customer,” commented Maciej Korecki, VP of Business Segment for Vacuum Heat Treatment Furnaces at SECO/WARWICK, the sister company to North American heat treat supplier SECO/VACUUM. He also added that “The product solves the customer’s problem with the hardening of special aviation steel, significantly increases the capacity of the existing production line of this component, and also improves process parameters, since the current devices used by the customer are not fitted with a subquenching system using liquid nitrogen. It will certainly be one of the unique solutions completed this year.”

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Automotive Heat Treater To Receive Vacuum Aluminum Brazing Furnace

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HTD Size-PR LogoA manufacturer in the automotive industry has placed an order for a large-capacity, high vacuum furnace, equipped with a cooling station to increase the performance of the system. This furnace will complete their new production plant and aid in vacuum aluminum brazing various components.

Maciej Korecki
Vice President, Business Segment Vacuum Heat Treatment Furnaces
SECO/WARWICK
(source: SECO/WARWICK)

SECO/WARWICK, the sister company of North American manufacturer SECO/VACUUM, provided the furnace to the automotive manufacturer of engines, filters, electric equipment, and cooling systems. For this project, the client required that the vacuum furnace have automatic loading and transportation of parts, as well as an increase in precise control of temperature uniformity and distribution.

"The equipment [. . .] has been installed in a new production plant that will significantly improve the capacity of the entire group," explains Maciej Korecki, vice president of the Business Segment of Vacuum Heat Treatment Furnaces at SECO/WARWICK. "A key to success in this project was the huge trust displayed by our partner and close cooperation at the design stage."

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Tecnovacum to Heat Treat with New Vacuum Furnace

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HTD Size-PR LogoBrazilian commercial heat treater Tecnovacum recently received a vacuum furnace, produced in cooperation between a Polish-based furnace suppler and a Brazilian-based furnace manufacturer.

For the first time in the history of the SECO/WARWICK Group, parent company to North American SECO/VACUUM Technologies, the order was executed in a 50/50 cooperation system – Tecnovacum’s financing plan with an industry development bank stipulated that at least 50% of the equipment production would be in Brazil with Combustol Fornos Ind Com. Ltda, who was the partner for this project.

Maciej Korecki
Vice President of the Vacuum Furnace Segment
SECO/WARWICK
(source: SECO/WARWICK)

The Vector vacuum furnace is the first product that the supplier has provided to Tecnovacum. To implement the government subsidy program, the equipment must have 50% of the production in the territory of Brazil. The furnace was developed in close cooperation with the Brazilian partner – Combustol Fornos Ind Com. Ltda. Cooperation between the two companies has been ongoing for six years in terms of sales, supplies and start-ups of furnaces in Brazil.

"This is an exceptional situation, the first one, but certainly not the last," commented Maciej Korecki, vice-president of the Vacuum Segment of the SECO/WARWICK Group. "Under our supervision and in close cooperation, the Brazilian partner made the casing and the control cabinet in Brazil, and the company was also responsible for the equipment assembly and start-up [. . .] We are glad that we have a partner who is not only able to carry out the assembly, start-up and service of our equipment on site, but also build the entire vacuum furnace in cooperation with us."

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Tool & Die Manufacturer Increases Heat Treat Capacity

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HTD Size-PR LogoA leader in the “Tool & Dies” sector — voestalpine High Performance Metals Polska -- placed an order for a retort tempering furnace with vacuum purging. The furnace will be used for tempering tool steel after the gas quenching process.

While this is the first opportunity for the company and SECO/WARWICK to cooperate after the global-pandemic-caused crisis, the contract is the result of long-term cooperation between the supplier and voestalpine High Performance Metals Polska Sp. z o.o. (formerly Bohler Uddeholm Polska). A retort tempering furnace with vacuum purging will complete the production line installed in Łomianki near Warsaw. The facility is currently operating the equipment delivered previously from the supplier, including a hardening furnace and a tempering furnace. Another furnace will significantly increase the capacity of the hardening plant.

Cezary Żurada
President of the Management Board
voestalpine High Performance Metals Polska

“Voestalpine High Performance Metals Polska is a partner whom we’ve known for many years," said Maciej Korecki, VP of the Vacuum Business Segment, SECO/WARWICK Group. "We know their needs, we are able to provide advice and most importantly, customize the equipment to their specific needs. Our relationship is not just superficial — we learn from each other, and thus we know the challenges they face in their day-to-day production."

Vacuum furnaces are perfect for hardening and tempering. They are characterized by the high-quality of processed parts, much lower number of hardening deformations and the absence of batch oxidation which directly translates into significant money savings.

“Our main goal was to increase the capacity. Our machinery park has already included a SECO/WARWICK tempering furnace, which has proved itself perfectly," summarized Cezary Żurada, president of the Management Board of voestalpine High Performance Metals Polska. He continued, "It is worth noting that despite being less demanding, the tempering process usually takes more time than the hardening process. Therefore, in order to be able to make full use of the hardening furnace, for tooling steel we needed two tempering furnaces. Now we will be able to make production more dynamic and conquer new markets."

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Aalberts Surface Technologies Heat To Receive a Vacuum Furnace with Nitrogen Quenching

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HTD Size-PR LogoGlobal commercial heat treater with 17 locations in North America, Aalberts Surface Technologies Heat in Kalisz (Poland), will receive a vacuum furnace with nitrogen quenching and an atmosphere furnace at their specialized commercial hardening plant. This expansion of its production line builds on their acquisition of a high vacuum furnace at their Dutch branch in Eindhoven last year.

The new SECO/WARWICK furnaces, added to the furnace that they had supplied last year, will create a production line that will be used for successive vacuum carburizing (LPC) and gas quenching (with the new CaseMaster Evolution-T vacuum furnace, or CMe-T furnace), followed by annealing (with the new BREW atmosphere furnace) to reduce the internal stress of the treated metals. Performing so many processes is possible thanks to the combination of vacuum technology with atmosphere technology.

The commercial heat treater believes that this expansion in capabilities will progress their mission. "According to our mission statement," said Wojciech Matczak, plant manager at Aalberts Surface Technologies Heat Kalisz, "‘Best-in-class’ is not about our core technologies but about our commitment to do everything we can to make our clients successful."

Maciej Korecki
Vice President of the Vacuum Furnace Segment
SECO/WARWICK
(source: SECO/WARWICK)

The three-chamber CaseMaster Evolution-T furnace has 1 ton per batch capacity and an annual output of up to 2,000 tons of parts. It can replace 3 conventional atmosphere furnaces. Additionally, it has fast cooling nitrogen chamber, achieving results similar to helium and oil cooling, creating an environmentally friendly system. Using the nitrogen taken from and discharged to the air eliminates both the use of expensive and difficult to obtain helium and harmful quenching oil. This makes it possible to reduce CO2 emissions by 300 tons annually, which is the amount generated by three standard atmosphere furnaces.

“Aalberts Surface Technologies Heat had special requirements," explained Maciej Korecki, VP, of the Vacuum Business Segment at SECO/WARWICK, "regarding the components and solutions used, and thus [the vacuum furnace] will replace the existing semi-continuous processes under protective atmosphere followed by oil quenching with complete vacuum heat treatment with low pressure carburizing and nitrogen quenching (25 bar!), delivering process precision and repeatability. . ."

The second furnace, the BREW 6810 solution, will make it possible to perform the annealing process immediately after vacuum carburizing. It can operate between 572 and 1382°F (300 and 750°C) and is equipped with a system to enable treatment under nitrogen atmosphere, preventing oxidation on the heat-treated workpieces.

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SonFlow to Receive Vacuum Furnace for New Brazing Solutions

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HTD Size-PR LogoA Scandinavian manufacturer of heat exchangers, SonFlow will receive a vacuum furnace from the parent company of a North American manufacturer for copper brazing adapted to the individual needs of the company's clients. A special nozzle design and electrical penetration assembly will ensure that the device is specific for the production of the latest, high-capacity plate heat exchangers for industrial, HVAC, off-shore and sanitary purposes to be manufactured in the Kolding plant.

Maciej Korecki
Vice President of the Vacuum Furnace Segment
SECO/WARWICK
(source: SECO/WARWICK)

SonFlow is a European manufacturer which has historically been known for manufacturing high-capacity industrial pumps. The company is now expanding into the plate heat exchanger business. Manufacturing state-of-the-art, powerful heat-exchangers has provided the incentive for the plant to purchase a furnace from SECO/WARWICK that will satisfy the current production challenges associated with the brazing process.

The working area of the device (900 x 900 x 1200) will enable the plant to perform in-house brazing, without the need to outsource work to third-parties. Power savings, one of the pillars of their mission, is ensured by the graphite chamber, and the shortened cycle time is guaranteed, thanks to the vacuum level of 10-3 mbar.

"Years of experience," explained Maciej Korecki, VP of the Vacuum Business Segment at SECO/WARWICK Group, "and the above approach have resulted in developing a special design of the cooling nozzles, optimum for brazing companies. This dedicated solution consisting of the special nozzle design for these radiator applications prevents excessive deposits of brazing residues in undesired areas of the heating chamber. With this design, the risk of damaging the device during the brazing process is eliminated."

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