Recently added articles from Industrial Heating:
Fuel change--choices and consequences.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
Nov 01, 2007; Miller, Reed ... As of late, it seems everyone is seeking change. Change can certainly be a good thing, but there are times when change--for change sake--is not good. Research for our recent editorials on global warming and China have provoked thought in this area. This takes me back to a course taken some ...
Industry-health myths, unions and bad management.(FEDERAL TRIANGLE)
Nov 01, 2007; Ashby, Barry ... Recently, a reader of this column wrote to complain about the ill health of the U.S. manufacturing industry due to foreign competition. I reminded him that survival belongs to those who adapt by changing. And that started me thinking about U.S. industrial health and what needs recognition ...
How to move molecules in vacuum systems Part one: mechanical and booster pumps.(THE HEAT TREAT DOCTOR)
Nov 01, 2007; Herring, Daniel H. ... In order to create a vacuum within a closed container, or vessel, we need to remove the molecules of air and other gases that reside inside by means of a pump. The vacuum vessel and pumps (mechanical, booster, diffusion, holding) together with the associated piping manifolds valves, gages ...
Electricity deregulation--is competition the answer?(ENVIRONMENTAL & SAFETY ISSUES)
Nov 01, 2007; Zingale, Nick ... Be careful what you ask for ... you just might get it. Just ask the coalition of Industrial Energy Users in Ohio. In the late 1990s, they lobbied hard for electricity deregulation. As a result, Ohio Senate Bill 3 was passed in 1999, which established a framework to "deregulate" energy ...
Phoenix Heat Treating: a four-generation heat-treating company.(MTI PROFILE)(Company overview)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Over one century of experience and four generations of family ownership. These are just two vital characteristics that make Phoenix Heat Treating (PHT) the successful heat-treating business it is today. PHT got its start in the early 1900s in Milwaukee, Wis. The ...
Rolled Alloys: global supplier of specialty metals.(IHEA PROFILE)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Rolled Alloys was founded on the introduction of wrought RA330 alloy as a replacement for cast HT alloy in the commercial heat-treat industry. Since this introduction in 1953, the company has enjoyed continuous growth through the expansion of alloys offered, markets served, customer base, ...
Red hot--up close and personal.(NOW YOU KNOW: Thermal Processing & Metals in Everyday Life)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Who has a more personal connection to high-temperature metals processing than the blacksmith? Do you think blacksmiths no longer exist? Think again. This field is experiencing a bit of a resurgence as people look for a craft with an artistic component that can provide a usable product for ...
IQ furnace system.(Equipment News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Can-Eng Furnaces, Global Furnace Systems Group, of Niagara Falls, N.Y., will supply a 30-inch x 36-inch x 48-inch integral quench (IQ) furnace with companion charge car, post wash, two tempers and ENDO gas generator to the Serov Mechanical Plant in Serov, Russia. Load ...
Heat-treatment facility.(Equipment News)(Schmolz und Bickenbach and Ipsen)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Ipsen received a contract from Schmolz + Bickenbach Mexico, S.A. de C.V. for heat-processing equipment for a new commercial heat-treatment facility to be built in Queretaro, Mexico. The scope of supply includes two TurboTreater 12-bar high-pressure-quench vacuum furnaces, vacuum tempering ...
High-technology furnace.(Equipment News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Alcan Engineered Products inaugurated a technologically advanced horizontal furnace at its Aerospace, Transportation and Industry (ATI) division's Sierre facility in ...
Pusher-type furnaces.(Equipment News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... EBNER has received an order from Alcoa for two state-of-the-art HICON[R] pusher-type furnaces to be used at its Tennessee operations. The furnaces will be used to preheat and homogenize aluminum ingots before the hot-rolling process. The ingots are further processed to ...
Heat-treatment furnaces.(Equipment News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... LOI Thermprocess has received an order from Seissenschmidt AG for a new roller hearth furnace and a chamber furnace for the normalizing of low-alloy forgings at its plant in Hungary. Seissenschmidt produces precision components for the automobile ...
Vacuum degasser.(Equipment News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Core Furnace Systems (CORE) recently completed the successful start-up of a new 160-ton twin-tank vacuum degasser at IPSCO's Montpelier, Iowa, facility. The vacuum degasser will be used to reduce the hydrogen ...
Hydrogen generation units.(Equipment News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... H2Gen Innovations of Alexandria, Va., announced the sale of two HGM 2000 on-site hydrogen generation units to EBNER Industrieofenbau GmbH. The units will be installed at Egyptian Iron and Steel Company (EISCO) in Cairo, ...
Control system.(Equipment News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Super Systems Inc. (SSi) of Cincinnati, Ohio, developed, manufactured and supplied a complete automated nitriding control system that was installed by Euclid Heat Treating of Cleveland, Ohio. The nitriding system includes all the ...
Liquefier.(Equipment News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... A new liquefier to be built by Air Products will generate an additional 400 metric tons per day of industrial gases to meet growing demand in Polish manufacturing sectors. The new liquefier will be located at the company's Kedzierzyn facility ...
Dual-line tunnel roller-hearth furnace.(Equipment News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Bricmont, Inc. of Canonsburg, Pa., has been awarded a contract to supply a dual-line tunnel roller-hearth furnace to heat slabs for the new thin-strip production line at Dongbu Steel Co. Ltd. (Asan Bay, South Korea). Line 1 is ...
Control systems.(Equipment News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Yokogawa Electric Corporation received an order from Shell Eastern Petroleum to supply control systems for the Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex in Singapore. The delivered systems will include the CENTUM ...
Meltshop revamp.(Equipment News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Tenova has been awarded an order relevant to the revamping of the existing meltshop of Mechel's Izhstal OAO plant in Ishvesk, Udmur Republic (Russia). Tenova will supply an electric arc furnace, ladle furnace vacuum degassing station, fume dedusting plant, ...
Timken to expand aerospace capabilities.(Business News)
Nov 01, 2007 ... The Timken Co. has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of The Purdy Corp., a leading precision manufacturer and systems integrator for ...