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A Baker’s Dozen Quick Heat Treat News Items to Keep You Current

Heat Treat Today offers News Chatter, a feature highlighting representative moves, transactions, and kudos from around the industry.

Personnel and Company Chatter

• Based in Lima, Ohio, Heat Treating Technologies recently installed its third heat treating furnace as the final step of a $3 million expansion project, to be used to process parts for agriculture and automotive industries.
• Mark Hemsath has been hired as director of nitriding and special vacuum furnaces at SECO/VACUUM Technologies, LLC. Hemsath has previously worked with SECO/WARWICK Corp. and Advanced Heat Treat Corporation in Waterloo IA, and operated his own heat treat furnace manufacturing and alloy fabricating company. He will be the primary contact for gas nitriding furnace applications in North America and will handle special vacuum furnace products throughout North America.
• The new president and chief executive officer of Norsk Titanium AS, an aerospace-grade titanium components manufacturer based in Plattsburgh, New York, will be Michael J. Canario.
• A company that manufactures high-temperature refractories and specializes in the toll firing business serving a variety of industries such as aerospace, automotive and petrochemical recently completed the task of relining the bricks on one of their roller hearth kilns, which can now reach greater operating temperatures – up to 2,650 ºF (1,454ºC). In addition, Ipsen Ceramics has also announced a collaboration with ceramics distributor, Carpenter Brothers, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Equipment Chatter

• A leading aerospace manufacturer of landing gear and associated components based in New Zealand recently purchased a large resistance box furnace and quench tank from L&L Special Furnace Co., Inc. The furnace is equipped with a pyrometry package for AMS2750E class 3 equipment with temperature uniformity of +/-15°F throughout the operating range.
• A custom environmental reach-in temperature/humidity/vacuum cycling chamber was recently shipped by Tenney Environmental to a company in the agriculture industry for use in testing food grade material.
• A high-temperature horizontal air flow cabinet oven was shipped from Grieve to a customer which will use it for heat treating at its facility. The No. 1045  is a 1250°F (677°C) oven measuring 38” W x 38” D x 38” H.
• A Gruenberg truck-in oven was recently shipped to the technology industry by Thermal Product Solutions. The oven is rated for Class A operation to handle processing solvents per the NFPA 86 specifications and has a maximum temperature rating of 650° F and work chamber dimensions of 144” W x 84” D x 72” H.
• Six propane gas fired enhanced duty walk-in series ovens were purchased by a material testing laboratory to be used for hydrogen embrittlement relief of various parts. The batch ovens commissioned from Wisconsin Oven Corporation have a maximum operating temperature of 500° F and work chamber dimensions of 8’0″ wide x 4’0″ long x 4’0″ high and were designed with the capacity to heat 1,020 lbs. of steel and 220 lbs. of a stainless-steel load cart from 70° F to 480° F within 60 minutes when loaded into an ambient oven.

Kudos Chatter

• Dana Incorporated was recognized as the 2018 Outstanding Power Electronics Solution Provider for its Long^® ThermaTEK™ insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) cooling solutions.  The award was presented during the 10th Annual Green Vehicle Convention in Shanghai, China.
• PJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works’ (“MMK”) most powerful unit, hot-rolled products Mill 2000, produced 527,500 tonnes of metal in May 2018, setting an all-time record for monthly output. It was the highest production volume at the mill since its commissioning in 1994, beating the previous monthly record of 526.2 ths tonnes set in January 2015.
• Solar Atmospheres of Western PA recently continued its merit status for NADCAP Nondestructive Testing for penetrant inspection. Solar Atmospheres specializes in Method A (water washable) Fluorescent Penetrant inspection and is able to accommodate parts of varying sizes in their world class NDT cell. Solar has its own in-house Level 3 inspector as well as six Level 2 inspectors and one Level 1 inspector.
• Professional fastener manufacturer ARP is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2018. “It was 1968 when Gary Holzapfel—whose background was in aerospace fastener manufacturing—developed some bolts and studs for his racer friends that were a marked improvement over what was available at the time. This lead to the founding of Automotive Racing Products Inc. … ARP proudly does everything in-house, which includes engineering, R&D, forging, heat-treating, machining, finishing, packaging and distribution in its ISO 9001:2008 and AS9100 registered California facilities.”