A southeastern U.S. manufacturer will receive a dual-chamber heat treating and tempering furnace. The recipient, a leading manufacturer of shopping carts and display cases, will be using the furnace to thermally process various projects.
The L&L Special Furnace Co. model QDS124 has two chambers: the top chamber (10"X11"X22") rated to 2,350°F is used for heat-treating various steels and other non-ferrous materials; the bottom chamber (10"X10"X20") rated to 1,250°F includes a recirculation fan and baffle for tempering, stress relieving or preheating.
The furnace was painted with custom colors to match the customer’s existing equipment. Shipped with the furnace was an accompanying QTO1224 oil quench tank.
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Twice a month, Heat TreatToday publishes an episode of Heat TreatRadio, a unique-to-the-industry podcast that covers topics in the aerospace, automotive, medical, energy, and general manufacturing industries. Each episode features an interview with an industry leader and is full of in-depth descriptions of technical content as well as heart-felt stories from industry legends. In today's Technical Tuesday, enjoy this snapshot of four episodes from Heat TreatToday's May 2022 Induction Heating print edition.
Heat TreatRadio: Lunch & Learn with Heat TreatToday – Heat Treatment vs. Thermal Processing
Dan Herring "The Heat Treat Doctor" The HERRING GROUP, Inc.
There is a world outside the heat treating comfort zone! The heat treating world can be steel-centric, iron-centric, aluminum-centric, and natural-gas centric. What may come as a surprise to most heat treaters is heat treating is a part of a much larger industry: thermal processing. In the thermal processing industry, steel, iron, aluminum, and natural gas are less the star of the show — although they are still important. The thermal processing industry deals more with finished goods like jewelry, while the heat treating industry deals with semi-finished goods like gears and other unassembled components.
In this episode of Heat TreatRadio, Dan Herring, The Heat Treat Doctor®, takes the heat treating world out of its comfort zone and into the world of thermal processing. Learn the difference between the two terms and some surprising ways thermal processing is used — including producing mayonnaise! Also included in this episode are some interesting statistics about natural gas consumption in the U.S. and a description of calcining, an area of thermal processing.
Read the transcript, and listen to or watch the podcast here.
Heat TreatRadio: All About Heat TreatBoot Camp with Doug Glenn
Bethany Leone, Heat TreatRadio editor, and Doug Glenn, publisher of Heat TreatToday, sit down to discuss Heat TreatToday's newest undertaking: Heat TreatBoot Camp. Heat TreatBoot Camp will cram 3 to 5 to 7 years of information into just a day and a half of classes. Settle into the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel & Suites in Pittsburgh Downtown the evening of Monday, October 31st for a good night’s sleep. Lectures begin the morning of November 1st and will end the afternoon of Tuesday, November 2nd. It won’t be all lectures though; there will also be soon-to-be-announced events in the Pittsburgh area.
What is the content of the lectures? Doug Glenn and Thomas Wingens of WINGENS LLC International Industry Consultancy will provide information on the heat treating industry players, products, processes, markets, and materials. If you are an industry-insider, an industry-outsider, a new employee in the industry, or an investor interested in mergers/acquisitions and feel like you need to know more about the heat treating industry, this event is for you. There is no other seminar or webinar like Heat TreatBoot Camp.
Read the transcript, and listen to or watch the podcast here.
Heat TreatRadio: Robotics in Heat Treat, a Conversation With Dennis Beauchense, ECM-USA
Dennis Beauchesne, Managing Director, ECM-USA, Inc. Source: ECM-USA, Inc.
Labor availability is a crucial issue in today’s heat treating shops. Are robots the solution to the ever-growing labor shortage? Dennis Beauchesne, managing director at ECM-USA, Inc. thinks mechanical arms may indeed be the solution to the lack of human arms. And robots are not replacing humans or taking away their jobs — they’re actually helping workers by doing the dull, repetitive jobs no one wants to do.
Listen to this episode of Heat TreatRadio to get up to speed on developments in robotics in heat treat. Vision recognition is a key factor in improving robots. Some heat treaters are even using robot cameras to measure distortion control on finished parts. Traceability with robots enables heat treaters to track exactly where a part was in a bin throughout the entire heat treating process. And, as Dennis puts it, robots are not just for heat treaters with a high-volume of the exact same part, because with new developments, robots can be programmed on the floor to deal with many different part shapes and sizes.
Read the transcript, and listen to or watch the podcast here.
Heat TreatRadio: Heat TreatLegends: Dan Herring, The Heat Treat Doctor®
“. . .I don’t view work as work, I view it as just a true labor of love.” In this episode of Heat TreatRadio, Doug Glenn interviews a Heat TreatLegend: Dan Herring, The Heat Treat Doctor®. Dan describes how he got his start in heat treating and manufacturing as early as six years old. Now, with six books published in the heat treating industry as well as many technical articles, Dan Herring is an easily-recognizable name. Dan is known throughout the industry as an expert problem solver who truly loves his work.
Learn advice from The Heat Treat Doctor® on how to succeed as a young person in the industry, how to contribute to science, and the first lesson of business: Be honest. Tune in to hear more words of wisdom from Dan about work-life balance, living in the moment, and having infinite patience.
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“In the near term, the thermal processing industry faces landmark decisions and the most commonly postulated future, based entirely on electricity is only one of many possible outcomes. This option, however, is not realistically implementable… there is insufficient green energy surplus to meet expected demand in its entirety.”
Everyone is talking about the future of heat treat and how to process parts for the future. Technology, such as systems related to IoT and 4D, is seen as the solutions. So what about the future of combustion? The color is green.
Read this guest column from WS Thermalwhich summarizes a few key caveats which stand in the way of transforming energy sources. Give it a read, and email editor@heattreattoday.com if you have an op-ed or guest column that you would like to submit to Heat Treat Today!
WS is well known when it comes to low NOx combustion of natural gas in industrial furnaces. By means of the patented FLOX® technology, WS burners can achieve NOx emissions lower than 0.07 #/MMBTU in most operating scenarios, which sets the benchmark for modern gas heated furnaces around the globe. The future, however, belongs to renewable energy sources. Aside from their ecological advantages, it is foreseeable that the economic benefits will become reality far sooner than previously predicted. Even more so, if external effects such as an adequate carbon tax are considered.
In the [short] term, the thermal processing industry faces landmark decisions and the most commonly postulated future, based entirely on electricity is only one of many possible outcomes. This option, however, is not realistically implementable. At this point in time, there is insufficient green energy surplus to meet expected demand in its entirety: heating of thermal process applications, electrolytically generated hydrogen for direct reduction of iron ore, or for fueling long-haul transportation, battery electric mobility, space heating and cooling via heat pumps and many additional applications. Renewable electricity faces demand many times greater than its short or medium-term generation capacity. All this does not even take into consideration the necessity of simultaneous demand and generation in the electric network.
Using a broad spectrum of green energy sources, likely generated in a decentralized manner, and with regional focus on infrastructure capabilities such as transportation and storage of energy carriers, seems more plausible than focusing purely on an electricity-based energy system. However, at this point in time it is impossible to foresee which energy carrier will play the dominant role, or which market shares the various options will garner over time. Hydrogen from electrolysis or from reforming biogas, bio propane, synthetic fuel like ammonia synthesized in sunny regions, or synthetic CH4 which could utilize the existing global transportation infrastructure and current end user devices. The only thing that seems certain is that chemical energy carriers will continue to play a large role in the future. Only they offer the unique advantages such as high availability, high energy density and storage capability, which ultimately enable an airplane to fly, or make it possible to supply thermal processing applications with enough green energy to reliably maintain process temperature for long periods. Therefore, at WS we are committed to our core message: We are …
Regardless of which renewable chemical energy carrier you will ultimately be using in the future, it is already in our focus. Even now, we are implementing technologies aiming at our green future in WS combustion systems. For example, we are exploring technologies that minimize NOx emissions even when combusting ammonia or hydrogen. On a case-by-case basis, we can determine if your WS burners are suitable for use with a given new energy carrier or if a retrofit kit is needed. In any case, due to the long service life of your equipment, what is essential for you to know today is: WS will provide you a state-of-the-art combustion system solution – even if the future comes faster than anticipated.
Bodycote, a leading provider of heat treatment and specialist thermal processing services, has entered into an agreement to acquire Ellison Surface Technologies, of Mason, Ohio, which will provide thermal spray and engineered coating surface technology services to the aerospace industry.
Combining Ellison’s thermal spray and engineered coating surface technology services with Bodycote’s services and global infrastructure will broaden their service offering to aerospace customers.
Stephen Harris, Group Chief Executive of Bodycote
Group Chief Executive of Bodycote Stephen Harris said, “Ellison’s business is one that we have long respected and is a perfect strategic fit for Bodycote’s aerospace and Specialist Technologies’ businesses. Ellison has been successful in winning new business in recent years and it will be very complementary to Bodycote’s existing surface technology business.”
Completion of the transaction is contingent on various regulatory filings’ processes; it is anticipated that the transaction will complete during the first quarter of 2020.
There is a history in every industry and it is fascinating to go back and see how we’ve gotten to where we are, especially when you think about trade publications in the heat treat industry. These publications are quite a bit more important than many know. They’ve helped advance the industry and have played a major role keeping the industry abreast of the latest technologies.
In the heat treat world, the first industry publication appeared in the Steel City, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, compliments of I. Stanley Wishoski. In 1924, Mr. Wishoski published the first edition of Fuels & Furnaces, which changed its name to Industrial Heating in the early 1930s. Industrial Heating is still around pumping out excellent heat treat content every month.
Mr. Wishoski’s son-in-law, Charles (Chuck) McClelland, assumed ownership of Industrial Heating. Some industry veterans, Mike Kasprzyk of INEX, Inc. for example, actually met Mr. McClelland, a privilege I had only once in passing.
Charles (Chuck) McClelland, owner/ publisher of Industrial Heating up to 1988
There were four individuals associated with Mr. McClelland that have contributed significantly to the publishing industry. Stan Lasday was hired by McClelland and was the editor of Industrial Heating for years, retiring in roughly 1994. Two of Chuck McClelland’s daughters worked for Industrial Heating: Beth McClelland and Becky McClelland. Becky is still working for the publication. Kathy Pisano, a name very familiar to hundreds of heat treat industry vendors, is also still employed by Industrial Heating. Both Kathy and Becky are, by my estimation, two of the great unsung heroes of the heat treat publishing world.
In roughly 1989, the McClelland family sold Industrial Heating to what is today BNP Media. Jim Henderson was the owner of BNP at that time and his righthand man was Dave Lurie who was responsible for assimilating the new publication into the company. Dave did a masterful job building Industrial Heating from being the #2 or #3 magazine in the industry to being the number one publication. In fact, during his tenure and the 20 years that I was with the publication, Industrial Heating tripled in size and is still the leading publication in the industry under the leadership of publisher Erik Klingerman and seasoned editors Bill Mayer and Reed Miller.
Dave Lurie, with BNP Media, published Industrial Heating in the early 1990’s.
In the early 1990s, the number one heat treating publication was Heat Treating. It was owned by Chilton/CBS and later sold to Penton Publishing. Penton struggled with it and changed the size of the publication and its name to Heat Treating Digest. It soon failed and folded.
The Monty (www.themonty) started sometime in the 1990s as the first online only heat treating media outlet. Gordon Montgomery’s son, Jordan, is now involved and seems to be pushing the site to new heights.
Another very competent publishing company from Pelham, Alabama, Media Solutions, started Thermal Processing in the 2000s. This publication was a spinoff of their gear magazine, Gear Solutions. I can personally attest that this is a good group of people doing good work. David and Teresa Cooper along with Chad Morrison are the key players at Thermal Processing.
ASM International started and shuttered one or more heat treat publications over the years – remember Heat Treating Progress? HTPro is ASM’s current mostly-online heat treat e-newsletter. ASM, of course, is a publishing power-house, but mostly with books, not so much with industry publications.
Heat Treat Today, the magazine you’re reading now, started in 2016.
Today’s Heat Treat Media Brands
So that’s how we got to where we are today with three print media brands in the North American heat treat market: Industrial Heating, Thermal Processing, and Heat Treat Today, and a couple of digital-only brands, The Monty and HTPro. But more importantly, it is through one or more of these industry trade publications that you’ve learned more than you know about the technologies, processes, products, and companies in the ever-changing heat treat world. HTT
If this is your first exposure to Heat Treat Today, welcome to the heat treat industry’s newest and most innovative media brand. You’re perusing our very first Aerospace Heat Treat special print and digital edition, but we have a host of other cutting-edge aerospace heat treat resources that you might find helpful.
Here’s what we’ll cover in this brief column. I’m going to tell you about a few other Heat Treat Todayresources that might help your in-house heat treat crew and then we’ll highlight some of the industry’s best heat treat training opportunities. If you have any questions about anything you see here, contact me at doug@heattreattoday.com.
First, some shameless self-promotion of resources that the team at Heat Treat Todayis providing or plans to provide in the near future.
? On our website, www.heattreattoday.com, we have a special section dedicated to aerospace. If you’re reading this column by means of the digital edition, you can click on the following link and you’ll be taken directly to that special aerospace section. If you’re reading a hard copy, just type this URL into your browser: https://www.heattreattoday.com/category/industries/aerospace-heat-treat/
? We have a daily e-newsletter that sometimes – on average once or twice a week – highlights aerospace heat treat news. You can subscribe to that e-newsletter by clicking on this URL: www.heattreattoday.com/subscribe.
? Every Tuesday as part of the daily e-newsletter mentioned above, we publish a technical article. We call it Technical Tuesday. These articles are not all specific to aerospace, but you might find them of interest.
? How about a podcast? Heat Treat Radio is something unique only to Heat Treat Today. We interview movers and shakers in the heat treat industry, many of whom have something to say about technologies in the aerospace industry. Click here to be taken to a list of recent episodes: www.heattreattoday.com/radio.
Two more:
? Heat Treat Consultants is a unique resource provided exclusively by Heat Treat Today. Essentially, this resource is a comprehensive list of heat treat industry consultants, many of whom have expertise in aerospace heat treating. Click here: www.heattreattoday.com/consultants.
? And, how about something brand, spanking new? If you’re social media savvy, why not join Heat Treat Today’s new “Leaders in Aerospace Heat Treating” LinkedIn Group – see the image in the center of this page. If you have a LinkedIn account, sign in and search for “Leaders in Aerospace Heat Treat.” Join the group and stay current on the latest technologies, products, processes, and discussions with other leaders in aerospace heat treat.
But enough about us! How about other resources for your in-house heat treat team? Consider the following:
? Our friends at ASM International are ALWAYS the go-to guys for heat treat training and education. They really can’t be beat. If your team is not a member of ASM’s Heat Treat Society, a special affiliate organization of ASM International, they really should be. ASM is constantly cranking out on-site and virtual training opportunities covering a wide range of heat treat topics – many pertinent to aerospace. Take, for example, Aeromat 2019. This event is billed as “Engineering the Future – Cutting Edge Aerospace Materials & Processes.” It just so happens that ASM publishes a journal called Advanced Materials & Processes. If you want more information about Aeromat 2019, here’s the website: https://www.asminternational.org/web/aeromat-2019.
? Industrial Heating Equipment Association (IHEA) also offers several training resources that might be helpful. The group’s “Fundamentals of Process Heating On-Line Course” runs from April 15 through May 26, and their NFPA 86 Update Seminar is scheduled for May 14 in Elgin, Illinois. More information can be found at www.ihea.org.
? Metal Treating Institute (MTI), the world’s largest network of commercial heat treaters, offers a very comprehensive Heat Treat Academy. Space doesn’t allow us to list all of the courses provided, but I would strongly recommend you check out this resource. Go to MTI’s website, www.heattreat.net, and click on “MTI Online Academy for Heat Treaters” under the “Training” tab.
? There are two other good heat treat publications in the industry besides Heat Treat Today, both offering excellent heat treat technical and news content. The industry granddaddy is Industrial Heating. They’ve been around since the 1920s. Good people and good product being published by these folks every month. Then there is Thermal Processing, which is published by a competent group in Alabama. They are relatively new to the heat treat industry, but you can’t tell by the high-quality content they produce. Check either of these publications on the web at www.industrialheating.com or www.thermalprocessing.com.
Enjoy the content in the following pages and know that it is just the tip of the iceberg. You can nd more at www.heattreattoday.com.
Bodycote, the world’s largest thermal processing services provider, today announces the company will open a new, state-of-the-art heat treatment plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
Mexico is one of the largest automotive manufacturing countries in the western hemisphere, with many of the world’s leading car manufacturers investing in manufacturing and assembly plants.
Bodycote’s latest investment, a 100,0002ft facility, established to serve the country’s extensive and growing automotive supply chain, will be capable of supporting large automotive projects and providing the necessary heat treatment services for technologically advanced components, such as complicated transmissions.
The plant, which will be TS 16949 certified as well as holding all required OEM quality approvals, will offer a wide range of heat treatment processes, including low pressure carburizing, ferritic nitrocarburizing, and Bodycote’s proprietary Corr-I-Dur® process.
In addition to the existing Silao and Empalme plants, the San Luis Potosi facility will be Bodycote’s third plant in Mexico and will be able to provide customers with complementary services and qualified backup to the existing sites, if needed. It is scheduled to be fully operational by fourth quarter.
A southeastern U.S. manufacturer will receive a dual-chamber heat treating and tempering furnace. The recipient, a leading manufacturer of shopping carts and display cases, will be using the furnace to thermally process various projects.
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