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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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Power Generation Systems Manufacturer To Expand Heat Treat

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Peter Zawistowski
Managing Director
SECO/VACUUM Technologies, USA
Source: SECO/WARWICK

A global developer of power generation systems is planning to expand heat treat capabilities with a 2-bar vacuum furnace.

SECO/VACUUM was awarded this contract and will provide a Vector® single chamber high-pressure quench vacuum furnace to expand the company's processing capacity, including high vacuum sintering and annealing. The new furnace will provide deep vacuum levels needed for the global developer's highly specialized applications.

"Securing continued business with this [client] is about working with people as much as it is working with machines," commented, Peter Zawistowski, managing director of SECO/VACUUM. This order is for a nearly identical furnace to one the same heat treat client ordered last year, which "really validated not just our furnace quality but also the teamwork and customer service behind it."


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General Atomics Heat Treats 7 Modules for Superconducting Magnet

HTD Size-PR LogoGeneral Atomics has heat treated the seventh and final module for a large superconducting magnet for ITER, a multi-national science experiment, with a vacuum furnace from a heat treat furnace supplier in Pennsylvania.

In order to convert the 6 km long stainless-steel-jacketed coil of Niobium-Tin conductors into superconductors for the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) experiment, each of these 4-meter by 2-meter 110-ton solenoid sections had to be heat treated for five weeks, exceeding 650°C (1202°F) at its peak. The heat treatment served to alloy the Niobium and Tin strands together into Nb3Sn, which becomes a superconductor when chilled with liquid helium to 4 Kelvin.

No such heat-treating furnaces existed, so General Atomics turned to SECO/VACUUM, a SECO/WARWICK Group company in Meadville, PA, to build a heat-treating furnace large enough to fit these solenoids and packed with all the technology needed to meet the strict quality control standards of this experiment.

Peter Zawistowski
Managing Director
SECO/VACUUM TECHNOLOGIES, USA
Source: secowarwick.com

"SECO/WARWICK Group did a great job designing in backup systems and robust design," commented Nikolai Norausky, program manager at General Atomics. "Any time we had questions or needed maintenance they were there to help."

The vacuum furnace that the supplier provided had to perform multiple tasks, including to bake off residual impurities from coil fabrication and to anneal internal stresses introduced at different stages of part fabrication. “General Atomics put so much time and money into these coils we really didn’t have any room for error," added Peter Zawistowski, managing director of SECO/VACUUM, "so nearly every component had to be doubly redundant."

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Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company Acquires High-Vacuum Furnace

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Karla Sarabia
Plant Manager
Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company

Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company, a North American manufacturer of industrial heaters, sensors, and controllers, will receive a high-vacuum furnace and auxiliaries for annealing thermocouple wires between every drawing stage.

SECO/VACUUM will design and deliver the Vector® HPGQ 6-bar furnace with a customized 40"x40"x48" working zone and a 1.5 ton load capacity. The furnace package includes a 20,000 l/s diffusion pump for high-vacuum operation and a closed loop water system, loading cart, and nitrogen reservoir.

"We wanted a furnace that aligned perfectly with the exceptional capabilities and operation at our Illinois facility to ensure uniform product quality among plants," Karla Sarabia, manager of Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company's Mexico project said. "It’s also a big advantage that SECO/VACUUM has local maintenance support to serve our needs in Mexico."

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Mint of Poland Purchases Vacuum Heat Treat Furnace

HTD Size-PR LogoThe Mint of Poland, a producer of circulation and collector coins for the National Bank of Poland, has purchased a second vacuum furnace from an international heat treat supplier. The historic 250 year-old-plus institution will begin producing stamps and coins with the furnace.

SECO/VACUUM’s parent company, SECO/WARWICK, sells vacuum furnace to The Mint of Poland.
(photo source: secovacusa.com)

This is the second vacuum furnace that the Mint of Poland purchased from the parent company of North American-based SECO/VACUUM. The vacuum furnace target is equipped with 15 bar high pressure gas quenching (HPGQ) capability and is intended to increase the efficiency of the Mint of Poland. The unique design also opens up new possibilities for thin layer nitriding tests. This is an innovative application in the technological testing phase. Additionally, it will serve as a back-up resource in the event of failure or downtime due to service inspection of the current unit.

Siemowit Kalukiewicz
Production and Operations Director
at Mennica Polska SA
(photo source: www.mennica.com.pl)

“Considering the nature of the mint’s operation, including the security of the coin and tool production process,” says Piotr Kraszewski, director of the production department at Mennica Polska SA, “an important aspect is duplicating the device in order to maintain the continuity of heat treatment in any situation and to ensure that the entire technological line is carried out on the premises of the mint.”

Siemowit Kalukiewicz, production and operations director at Mennica Polska SA, added, “In our long-term cooperation with SECO/WARWICK… we value the most their technological and service support, which allows us to try innovative solutions, rare or unheard of on the market. In our opinion, the technological knowledge and individual approach of engineers to the challenges that we set before them are as valuable and unique as our products.”

 

 

 

 

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