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East Coast Manufacturer To Replace Aging Fleet of Vacuum Sintering Furnaces

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An East Coast manufacturer has purchased six new vacuum sintering furnaces to replace the 1980s-era sintering furnaces it has used for heat treating components.

SECO/VACUUM received the commission to transition the production line from nine 40-yr-old SECO/WARWICK sintering furnaces to the six Vector sintering vacuum furnaces with 2-bar gas cooling. The furnace hot zones will be 26″ wide, 30″ high, and 62″ deep (660 x 760 x 1575 mm), which are the same size as the retiring furnaces, allowing them to continue using their existing heat treat fixtures.

Sintering is a critical process used to fuse metals together without reaching melting temperature. It is generally used for fixing the strands of wire mesh in place, consolidating powder metals, or any application where the objective is fusing metals together while remaining below melting temperatures.

The press release is available in its original form here.

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Choosing the Right Vacuum Furnace

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Source: TAV, the Vacuum Furnaces Blog

It pays to carefully consider the key factors to buying a vacuum furnace (source: TAV, the Vacuum Furnaces Blog)

When and why is it a good idea to purchase a vacuum furnace? Does your company really need one? A company that wants to play its cards best, in terms of investment and yield, knows about the advantages offered by vacuum heat treatments in both the short and long term. But choosing the ideal furnace best suited to your company’s needs isn’t as easy as it might appear.

In this Heat Treat Today Best of the Web feature, TAV Vacuum Furnaces gives readers a handy guide over at its blog to consider the crucial factors in choosing a vacuum furnace for your company, including tips on who needs a vacuum oven, why comparing two or more systems is a bad idea, and the role of the heat exchanger, vessel performance, and the pumping unit.

An excerpt: “There are many fields, ranging from the vacuum sintering of metal powders or ceramics to the vacuum brazing of aluminum alloys to continue with high temperature brazing, in which technological avant-garde stands out. In these sectors, the decision to use a vacuum furnace is linked to the possibility of implementing an advanced development production process, for which the focus was on high-yield plants.”

Read more: “Do I Really Need a Vacuum Furnace?”

 

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