10 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.
Personnel and Company Chatter
- Arathi Krishna has been appointed managing director of Sumdram Fasteners Ltd, based in Chennai, India, as her father and manufacturing veteran Suresh Krishna retires. However, Suresh Krishna will continue to be the director and non-executive chairman of the global auto components maker. Arathi Krishna has been the joint managing director of the company since 2011 and has been on the Board since 2006.
- ASM International recently announced that William J. Lenling and Masahiro Fukumoto have been selected to become members of the 2018 Thermal Spray Hall of Fame by the ASM Thermal Spray Society Board of Directors. “Mr. Lenling is a co-founder (1992) and CTO of TST Engineered Coatings in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, which engineers and manufactures industrial coatings and coated components. The award citation reads: For sustained achievements in entrepreneurial advances of thermal spray processes and proven leadership in establishing state-of-the-art production processes and high value in-situ quality monitoring manufacturing practices. Dr. Fukumoto is a professor of mechanical engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan. Award citation: For significant contributions to the development of thermal spray technology through innovative research, published papers, and leadership in TSS and Asian thermal spray societies.” (ASM)
- UK-based Wallwork Cambridge, which supplies heat treatment, engineering, castings and vacuum equipment to the aerospace sector, has secured Rolls-Royce’s seal of approval for vacuum brazing, plasma nitriding, and heat treatment. With the installation of a vacuum brazing furnace and two new plasma nitriders, the company is more than doubling the nitriding capacity at Cambridge, enabling versatility and quicker processing of aerospace components.
- Brandon Sheldon, a project manager based at Plibrico Refractory Construction‘s Salem, Ohio office, recently received his API 936 Refractory Personnel Certification from the American Petroleum Institute (API). The industry certification program certifies knowledge of API STD 936 Refractory Installation Quality Control Guidelines for field testing of monolithic refractory materials, as well as installation and repair of refractory linings. In addition, the certification program helps to align the company’s installation teams with third-party inspection services to facilitate improved quality assurance practices overall.
Equipment Chatter
- Solar Atmospheres, Inc., in Souderton, PA, recently installed a 74″ diameter by 72″ deep horizontal internal quench vacuum furnace, designed by Solar Manufacturing, Inc., to quench with argon at 10-bar while utilizing a 600 horsepower motor running at 460 volts from a variable speed drive, and rear head moveable gas baffle doors. The goal of the massive quench system is to be able to quench larger batches of power generation castings by increasing the cooling rate and eliminating the supplemental use of helium and operating in 100% argon.
- An electrically heated cyclone pit furnace was recently delivered by Lindberg/MPH to a steel heat treater to be used for a heat treating process on aircraft components. The maximum temperature rating for this electric pit furnace is 1250ºF. The work chamber has a 38″ diameter x 48″ depth and is constructed with an alloy liner backed with 7″ of block insulation.
- Spanish supplier of aluminum sheets and coils Aludium has announced that the company will install a multi-chamber furnace to reduce metal costs and improve the sustainability of its operations. The new furnace will be installed in the Amorebieta cast house and will increase Aludium’s ability to melt lacquered scrap and is due to come onstream during 2019. The multi-chamber furnace selected is a Hertwich Ecomelt PS275, a proven technology and one of the largest shaft furnaces in the world.
Kudos Chatter
- PyroGenesis Canada Inc. has announced that it has received certification for the production of metal powders under a quality management system which complies with the requirements of ISO 9001:2008. This certification is an amendment to the company’s existing ISO certification, pertains specifically to metal powder production, and was received under the auspices of a major independent risk and standards company, SAI Global.
- Family-owned global manufacturer of plastic processing machines Arburg, based in Loßburg, Germany, has recently been presented three certifications: LQW, ISO, and IHK recognition. The LQW certificate was presented to the machine manufacturer in January after the successful completion of the “Learner-oriented Quality Certification in Continuing Education and Training”. The company received the approval of DIN ISO 29990:2010 “Quality Management Systems for Learning services for Non-formal Education and Training” inspection in February. In late 2017, the manufacturer was recognized with the “1A Excellent Training Company” award presented by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) – Northern Black Forest region.
- Countyline Tool, a Komet Service Partner based in East Peoria, Illinois, has attained ISO 9001:2015 certification. All Komet partners are currently working to obtain the ISO 9001:2015 certification, and Countyline Tool is the eighth partner to have completed the certification.
Heat Treat Today is pleased to join in the announcements of growth and achievement throughout the industry by highlighting them here on our News Chatter page. Please send any information you feel may be of interest to manufacturers with in-house heat treat departments especially in the aerospace, automotive, medical, and energy sectors to the editor at editor@heattreattoday.com.
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