Recently added articles from Industrial Heating:
What does the stimulus stimulate?(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The objective of any government stimulus plan is jobs growth and investment growth. How do we grow jobs and investments? Is there a risk of getting it upside down? In my experience, manufacturing is a significant job source. Consequently, any stimulus program should seek to ...
Time to recall elected incompetence.(Federal Triangle)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Remember the old movie "Sabrina"? The one where the chauffeur's daughter wanted to marry out of her class, and her father told her, "There is a front seat and a rear seat and a window in between." My friends and faithful readers, that message is imperative in the context of ...
H-band and RH-band steels.(The Heat Treat Doctor)
Mar 01, 2009; ... When and why do we use hardenability-band (H-band) and restricted-hardenability-band (RH-band) steels is a question often posed to The Doctor by design engineers. Why not use these steels all the time is a common question from heat treaters. Let's learn more. The choice of ...
American steel treating: premiere heat treating.(MTI Profile)
Mar 01, 2009 ... American Steel Treating (AST) got its start as a manufacturer in 1987 constructing and installing various types of furnaces. One year later, the Perrysburg, Ohio-based company started processing engine components and transmission gears. Today, AST has two manufacturing ...
The iron furnace--seed of the industrial age.(Now You Know: Thermal Processing & Metals in Everyday Life)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Today's blast furnaces are distant cousins to the iron works of the early colonial era. One such operation--possibly the first successful iron works in the colonies--is the Tubal Works in Virginia. Started by Colonel Alexander Spotswood nearly 300 years ago, it later became known as ...
Coil annealing furnaces.(Equipment News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Turkey's Assan Aluminium Sanaji ve Ticaret A.S. recently installed four SECO/WARWICK coil annealing furnaces equipped with high-convection Vortex Jet Heating for processing various sizes of coils. The furnaces are an integral investment in Assan's program to renovate and expand its ...
Hydrogen BAF.(Equipment News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Bokaro Steel Plant, a Steel Authority of India company, has selected Cleveland, Ohiobased RAD-CON to provide a turnkey hydrogen bell-type batch annealing facility (BAF). The facility will process 860,000 tons per year of cold-rolled steel, primarily destined for the automotive market. The ...
Vacuum tank degassing facility.(Equipment News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... SSAB has awarded Siemens a contract for a vacuum tank degassing (VTD) facility for its Mobile, Ala., meltshop. The contract is valued at approximately $14 million. Siemens will provide two tanks, two cover-lifting devices and one vacuum-pump system. Siemens will also supply a primary ...
Nitriding system.(Equipment News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Samlak Heat Treatment Co. of Busan, South Korea, received shipment of a turnkey nitriding system that will improve the lot-to-lot repeatability of high-volume production. Supplied by Nitrex Metal Inc. and started up in the fourth quarter of 2008, the system includes Nitreg[R]-C ...
Vacuum chambers.(Equipment News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... BEPeterson has supplied multiple vacuum chambers to TevTech, a supplier of vacuum-furnace systems to the advanced-materials manufacturing industry. The vacuum chambers were fabricated to ...
DFI system.(Equipment News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Linde Gases announced an agreement with South Korean steel producer POSCO for the installation of its REBOX[R] direct flame impingement (DFI) technology. The installation, scheduled for October 2009, is for improvements to one of POSCO's continuous annealing lines at its large integrated ...
Vacuum Heat-Treat System.(Equipment News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... ALD Vacuum Technologies, in conjunction with ALD-Holcroft, introduced a new size of its trademarked vacuum heat-treating system, ModulTherm[R], which is now available to process load sizes of 36 inches x 36 inches x ...
Induction Heating Systems.(Equipment News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Inductoheat Inc. shipped four CrankPro[R] induction heating systems to several leading suppliers of automobile crankshafts in the fourth quarter of 2008. The CrankPro system is a non-rotational induction hardening and tempering machine that utilizes advanced SHarP-C[TM] technology, which ...
Controls.(Equipment News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Rock Island Arsenal (RIA) has contracted Super Systems Inc. (SSi) to upgrade the control architecture and technology used in its heat-treat facility. SSi instrumentation, software and field services will provide all the necessary capabilities, including turnkey installation, training and ...
Universal stainless to invest $13 million in meltshop.(Business News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Universal Stainless & Alloy Products announced plans to invest $13 million in its Bridgeville, Pa., meltshop over the next 15 months. The capital improvement will include major upgrades in equipment, automation and plant layout. The major components of the project include the installation ...
Timken supplying steel bars to Mexican aerospace manufacturer.(Business News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The Timken Co. announced that it is supplying hot-rolled steel bars to Frisa Aerospace, a manufacturer of seamless rolled rings for applications in aerospace, chemical and energy industries. Based in Monterrey, Mexico, Frisa machines Timken's 6-, 8- and 10.5-inch steel bars into mandrels, ...
Chinalco to invest $19.5 billion in Rio Tinto.(Business News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Chinese state-owned Chinalco, one of the world's largest aluminum producers, agreed to invest $19.5 billion in global miner Rio Tinto Group in the country's biggest overseas investment. As part of the deal, Chinalco agreed to invest $12.3 billion in joint ventures in aluminum, copper and ...
AK Steel Calls Back Workers.(Business News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... AK Steel has called back 525 hourly workers at its Ashland Works as the company prepares to restart the blast furnace there. AK Steel announced plans to restart the plant's blast furnace in February and take down the blast furnace at Middletown Works for ...
ThyssenKrupp Delays Opening of Stainless Steel Plant.(Business News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... ThyssenKrupp will delay the opening of its stainless steel operation in Calvert, Ala., for about a year until October 2010, stalling construction spending in an effort to save money. No delays are planned for the larger carbon-steel unit on the same site. That facility should begin ...
Steel Industry Reaches Milestone in Energy Efficiency.(Association News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reports that the U.S. steel industry has reduced its energy intensity per ton of steel shipped by approximately 33% since 1990, signifying an industry milestone in energy efficiency. The achievement represents a further improvement since AISI ...