Industrial Heating back issues from August 2008:
Industrial heating's Web search power page.(Directory)
Aug 01, 2008 ... ALLOYS Steeltech Ltd.: Alloy Castings, Fixtures and Furnace Components Heat-resistant alloy castings including: furnace fi xtures, furnace replacement parts, radiant tubes, and furnace rolls. Check out our Green products on the new Steeltech Ltd. website. Contact: 24 ...
Energy legislation and its impact.(EDITORIAL)
Aug 01, 2008; ... One of the key discussion points from April's IHEA meeting--Going Green--was energy (or emissions) intensity (EI) reduction. When you hear discussions of legislation to "control greenhouse gases," be sure to identify whether the controls are absolute reductions in C[O.sub.2], or if they ...
Energy laws doing more harm than good.(FEDERAL TRIANGLE)
Aug 01, 2008; ... In keeping with the theme of this issue, we need to address the U.S. energy crisis. It is a true predicament, will not get better quickly and presents problems caused by the "Gang of 535," who is more responsible for the current situation than anyone else. But wait ... it gets worse. ...
Proper care and feeding of furnace mesh belts.(THE HEAT TREAT DOCTOR)
Aug 01, 2008; ... Mesh belts come in all shapes, sizes, materials and weaves and are used for such diverse applications as case hardening, brazing, sintering and glass-to-metal sealing to name a few. Belts run at temperatures from near ambient to several thousand degrees. They are expected not only to work ...
Solar power is hot.(NOW YOU KNOW: Thermal Processing & Metals in Everyday Life)
Aug 01, 2008 ... With today's cost of energy, it's no wonder there is a renewed interest in generating electricity by means of the sun's energy. This is not a new concept. The development of solar energy goes back more than 100 years. Early solar power plants produced steam from the heat of the sun, and ...
Advanced Heat Treat Corp. Specialists in ion nitriding.(MTI PROFILE)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Advanced Heat Treat Corp. (AHT) and ion nitriding--the two pretty much go hand in hand. Although AHT provides a wide variety of services at its four facilities, the company is widely known for its UltraGlow[R] ion-nitriding process. They also proudly boast the world's largest ion nitrider ....
Selas: the heat technology company.(IHEA PROFILE)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Selas is a well-known name to people in the combustion and heat-treatment industry. After all, the Pennsylvania-based company is celebrating its 112" anniversary this year. Selas has gained a solid reputation not only for their high-quality standard products that are still a ...
Traveling homogenizing furnace.(Equipment News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... SECO/WARWICK (Tianjin) Industrial Furnace Co. Ltd. has completed the installation of a traveling homogenizing furnace at Miluo Longzhou Aluminium Co., a specialty aluminum billets manufacturer in Hunan, China. The company operates a recycling aluminum alloy billet production line that can ...
Vacuum purge/gas nitriding furnace.(Equipment News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Solar Manufacturing has delivered a vacuum purge/gas nitriding furnace to Winston Heat Treating. The furnace has a rapid furnace heating rate of one hour to nitriding temperature and has an equally fast cooling rate ...
Vacuum furnace.(Equipment News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... HIGHTEMP VAC AERO Pvt. Ltd. recently commissioned its first vacuum furnace at the joint venture's facility in Nelamangala near Bangalore, India. The furnace was built to the VAC AERO Model VAH 3436 HV-2 design with 2-bar pressure ...
Integral quench furnace system.(Equipment News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Consolidated Engineering Company has contracted with a manufacturer of business-jet aircraft to design and manufacture an integral quench furnace system for their new heat-treat facility in Mexico. The system will be treating a ...
Hot isostatic press.(Equipment News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Avure Technologies is constructing an extremely large hot isostatic press (HIP) system for Bodycote's Surahammar, Sweden, facility. Installation is scheduled for late 2009. The system will be larger in size than Bodycote's two HIPs at ...
Hardening machine.(Equipment News)(GH Induction Group )(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... GH Induction Group has received an order from a U.S. bearing manufacturer for a two-station gear/raceway hardening machine. The machine incorporates several new design features, resulting in increased productivity and reduced setup time because of the second ...
Air separation unit.(Equipment News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Air Products Canada Ltd. has signed a long-term supply contract with U.S. Steel Canada for its Lake Erie Works in Nanticoke, Ontario. The agreement includes provisions for Air Products to ...
Rotary-hearth furnace.(Equipment News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... LOI Thermprocess has been awarded a contract by Daimler AG. A new rotary-hearth furnace with zone separation for the carburizing and hardening of gears is to be supplied ...
Solution heat-treat furnace.(Equipment News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Despatch Industries announced the sale of a solution heat-treat furnace to Aernnova Componentes Mexico. The furnace will be used to heat treat aluminum components for the aerospace industry at Aernnova's new ...
Blast furnace.(Equipment News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Danieli Corus will design and supply the first new blast furnace commissioned in North America in 30 years for Nucor Corp.'s new iron-making facility. Nucor has applied for a permit to build the greenfield plant on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. James Parish, La. The ...
Severstal to acquire Esmark.(Business News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Russia's OAO Severstal has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Esmark Inc. for approximately $775 million. Including the assumption of debt and loans, the value of the deal is approximately $1.25 billion. Esmark has been at the center of a bidding war between Severstal ...
Kaiser Aluminum announces expansion.(Business News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Kaiser Aluminum announced that its Board of Directors approved a $19 million expansion at its Tennalum facility in Jackson, Tenn., to increase capacity and capabilities through the addition of an extrusion press, heat-treat furnace, draw bench and ...
Harris Steel to acquire Ambassador Steel.(Business News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Nucor Corp. subsidiary Harris Steel Inc. has agreed to purchase Ambassador Steel Corp. of Auburn, Ind., for $185 million. The transaction includes Ambassador affiliate Delta Erecting Inc. Ambassador is a fabricator and distributor of concrete reinforcing steel and related products. The ...
Logan Aluminum adds recycling center.(Business News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Logan Aluminum has completed work on a new $30 million aluminum recycling center at its Russellville, Ky., facility. The plant enables Logan Aluminum to receive and melt scrap aluminum such as beverage cans and painted siding. It completely eliminates ...
Novelis to expand Brazilian operations.(Business News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Novelis Inc. announced that it will invest more than $30 million in its operations in Brazil over the next 18 months in a number of projects designed to increase production capacity and introduce new technology. Close to $21 million will be invested in process technology and equipment ...
Bell Helicopter to expand.(Business News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Bell Helicopter is set to begin a $55 million expansion project at its Grand Prairie manufacturing plant. The expansion is part of the company's plan to boost production of helicopter components and spare parts. According to Bell, it is adding 60,000 square feet that will ...
HITCO to supply Composite components for Boeing.(Business News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... HITCO Carbon Composites, a subsidiary of SGL Group--The Carbon Company, has signed a long-term agreement with Alenia Aeronautica S.p.A. to supply the trailing edge components for the Boeing 787 ...
SECO/WARWICK patents energy-saving system.(Business News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... SECO/WARWICK has recently patented a power-management option for high-pressure-quench vacuum furnaces that reduces electrical consumption by creating a single system of alternate control of the heating and cooling ...
Bodycote acquires thermal-spray businesses.(Business News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Bodycote announced the acquisition of three United Kingdom companies, Plasma & Thermal Coatings Ltd., Greenhey Engineering Services and ...
AFE Cronite opens facility in Mexico.(Business News)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... AFE Cronite Technologies, a supplier of heat-treatment alloy fixtures and furnace parts, has opened a manufacturing plant in Monterrey, Mexico. The plant, located in a 50,000-square-foot building close to the Monterrey International airport, is a sand-casting foundry with a ...
ArcelorMittal to acquire Bayou Steel, Astalloy.(Business News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... ArcelorMittal has signed an agreement to acquire Bayou Steel, a producer of structural steel products for $475 million. Bayou Steel operates facilities in LaPlace, La., and Harriman, Tenn., producing billets, equal leg angles, unequal leg angles, flats, channels, standard beams and wide ...
Cleveland-Cliffs to buy Alpha for nearly $10 billion.(Business News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Iron and coal miner Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. will buy coal producer Alpha Natural Resources Inc. for nearly $10 billion in a move to boost its role as a supplier to the global steel industry. The boards of both companies have approved the deal. The combined company will be named Cliffs ...
Abbott Furnace Company.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Abbott Furnace Company of St. Marys, Pa., a manufacturer of ...
Alloy Engineering.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Alloy Engineering of Berea, Ohio, which specializes in the design and manufacture of ...
BeaverMatic.
Aug 01, 2008 ... BeaverMatic redesigned its website (www.beavermatic.com) in an effort to clearly demonstrate its ...
Carbone Lorraine.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Carbone Lorraine has acquired 100% of Xianda, a Chinese company specializing in ...
CEC Combustion Services Group.
Aug 01, 2008 ... CEC Combustion Services Group, an industrial combustion testing company, has acquired a new ...
Conrad Kacsik Instrument Systems.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Conrad Kacsik Instrument Systems announced the establishment of a division dedicated ...
Induction Atmospheres.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Induction Atmospheres has moved to a new 19,000-squarefoot facility two miles south from ...
Ipsen.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Ipsen has deployed a full line of new service vans for North America. The ...
Metallurgical High Vacuum Corp.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Metallurgical High Vacuum Corp. announced a partnership with CF Thermal Inc. (South ...
Mark-10 Corporation.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Mark-10 Corporation has donated more than $25,000 worth of force and torque test equipment to Stony Brook University ....
The Performance Review Institute.(Website overview)
Aug 01, 2008 ... The Performance Review Institute, as part of their Customer & Support Solutions and Initiatives, launched www.eQuaLearn.com, a new website dedicated ...
Precision Control Systems Inc.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Precision Control Systems Inc., a manufacturer of power control systems and custom ...
Vacuum Engineering Services.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Vacuum Engineering Services of East Windsor, Conn., which specializes in the repair, ...
Yokogawa Electric Corporation.
Aug 01, 2008 ... Yokogawa Electric Corporation has acquired Analytical Specialties Inc., a company with a unique gas-analyzer ...
Industry events.(Brief article)(Calendar)
Aug 01, 2008 ... AUGUST 24-27 COM 2008: 47th Conference of Metallurgists; Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. www.metsoc.org/com2008 24-27 2008 Environmental, Health & Safety Conference, hosted by the American Foundry Society; St. Louis, Mo. ...
Energy conservation benefits with process control: energy conservation is the exercise of optimizing the quantity of energy used. In today's economic environment, with strict regulations and competition for resources, industrial users of energy are challenged with trying to minimize their energy footprint.(Process Control & Instrumentation)
Aug 01, 2008; ... As global demand for natural resources sharply increases, costs are escalating. According to U.S. government statistics from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), in late 2006, average spot prices for natural gas were $6-8 per MMBtu. In the first quarter of 2008, natural gas prices ...
Hybrid burners offer choices: the heat-treating industry has evolved dramatically in the last 25 years. With energy costs and environmental controls as primary drivers, there has been an upswing in technological developments to address these concerns.(Heat Treating)
Aug 01, 2008; ... As with most large jumps in technology, additional improvements or discoveries are uncovered and imple mented. We hope to describe some facets of material improvements and the results of these advances in the actual working units now deployed for use in the high-temperature industry. ...
Innovative energy savings in continuous annealing furnace: increasing energy costs over the past few years have provided incentive for metallurgical thermal-processing companies to look for new ways to improve the efficiency of their furnaces.(Industrial Gases/Combustion)
Aug 01, 2008; ... The continuous annealing furnace at GalvTech has long been identified as a candidate for energy-efficiency improvements. Unfortunately, the required capital investment to purchase traditional recuperators and the increase in N[O.sub.x] emissions, along with the necessary downtime to ...
Casting aluminum in China: Nanshan Light Alloy Co., Ltd. has recently completed the installation of a new aluminum cast house at their Longkou facility in Shandong Province, China. The Nanshan mandate was to become a high-volume, low-cost producer.(Industrial Recovery and Recycling)
Aug 01, 2008; ... To meet Nanshan's goal, Bricmont Inc. of Canonsburg, Pa., an Inductotherm Group Company, was selected to sup ply large-capacity round-top, top-charge melting furnaces with companion tilting holding furnaces. The round-top melting furnace, with its ease of loading, regenerative burners and ...
Vacuum heating and brazing systems--upgrade or replace? With the advent of Nadcap and AMS 2750D compliance being placed upon them by their customers, companies using vacuum heating and brazing equipment for aerospace applications will be asking themselves whether it is more cost-effective to upgrade an existing system or to perhaps replace it with a new one.(Heat & Corrosion Resistant Materials)
Aug 01, 2008; ... A number of factors should be considered before making the upgrade or replace decision. There are both "up front" costs and operating costs that need to be evaluated. Five main areas of the typical vacuum heating or brazing system (Fig. 1) need to be reviewed to make a proper ...
Portable chillers.(LITERATURE SHOWCASE)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AEC, Inc. Available in air or water-cooled models, the portable PS Series chillers offer a leaving water temperature range of ...
Process heating equipment.(LITERATURE SHOWCASE)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Eclipse Comprehensive brochure presents the entire line of process heating equipment and systems from the Eclipse family of brands. Our global powerhouse of ...
Temperature Handbook.(LITERATURE SHOWCASE)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Omega Engineering The Temperature Handbook, 5th Edition offers detailed information and specifications on over 40,000 products, for process measurement and control, ...
Combustion safeguards.(LITERATURE SHOWCASE)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Protection Controls Inc. Offers this comprehensive Service Manual covering all PROTECTOFIER combustion safeguard units. It provides important and valuable ...
PLC + PID controller.(LITERATURE SHOWCASE)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Yokogawa Corporation of America With the new 4-loop PID module for the FA-M3 multi-controller, configuring temperature loops is as simple as using single loop controllers. No ...
Extended life sensors.(LITERATURE SHOWCASE)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AccuTru Sensor Technologies Find out why so many companies are switching from MgO-insulated thermocouples and RTDs to MI-Dry ExL sensors from ...
Infrared thermocouples.(LITERATURE SHOWCASE)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Exergen Industrial Division When SIZE MATTERS, look at the Exergen micro IRt/cs. These self-powered Infrared Thermocouples will match K t/cs at ...
Pyrometry.(LITERATURE SHOWCASE)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FAR Associates FAR Associates offers noncontact temperature measurement for the 21st century. The SpectroPyrometer provides real-time temperatures, emissivity and calculated ...
Thermocouple Handbook.(LITERATURE SHOWCASE)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nanmac Corporation A new, user-friendly, free resource for temperature measurement is available on CD from Nanmac Corporation. Including a complete photo index, application guide, ...
Noncontact thermometers.(LITERATURE SHOWCASE)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Raytek Raytek has introduced a new brochure detailing the Marathon Series of infrared, non-contact thermometers designed for use in harsh ...
Data logger.(LITERATURE SHOWCASE)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Super Systems, Inc. Developed for harsh environments, the SDS 8020/SDS 8040 data logger is the latest in hardware and software technology for portable data ...
Induction heating/melting equipment.(LITERATURE SHOWCASE)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ABP Induction ABP Induction is a leading global supplier of induction heating and melting equipment. Reflecting the proud heritage of our predecessor companies, ASEA, Brown Boveri ...
Furnaces.(LITERATURE SHOWCASE)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Can-Eng Furnaces Since 1964, Can-Eng has been designing and manufacturing industrial heat-treating equipment for commercial and captive heat treaters, stamping and fastener ...
Vacuum furnaces.(LITERATURE SHOWCASE)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Centorr Vacuum Industries Furnace expansion for the Metal Injection Molding market with the introduction of new MIM-Vac 'M' line of custom metal hot ...
Heat treating data book.(LITERATURE SHOWCASE)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SECO/WARWICK Corp. SECO/WARWICK has published the 9th edition of its famous Heat Treating Data Book complete with ...
Thermal processing systems.(LITERATURE SHOWCASE)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Surface Combustion, Inc. Brochure introduces our company, as well as our overall capabilities in providing one of the most diverse product offerings in the thermal processing industry ....