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May Issue 2011
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Table of Contents
Heat Treat News
Used Equipment
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Continuous
Draw/Temper
Generator
Induction
Miscellaneous
Salt
Vacuum
Employment Opportunities
Seeking Employment
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Introduction
The Monty/May 2011. Death and destruction in Japan, widespread unrest in the Middle East (this of course
is a waste of words), fears of debt defaults in the European Economic Union and the unease over the US
national debt all should contribute to a general feeling of trepidation and unease. However rejoice at being
in being in the heat treating industry, the optimism just keeps on growing. This issue of "The Monty" has
reports from three major furnace companies, Seco Warwick, Solar Manufacturing and Ipsen all of whom
are reporting that business is strong and getting stronger. A number of news items in this issue about the
potential blow to vacuum carburizers because of an acute shortage of acetylene would appear to be
resolving itself and as a further sign that the world is a brighter place for our industry we see that global
commercial heat treater Bodycote is forecasting a very good year and seeing it's stock reflect this. Yes the
world around us appears to be going to hell in a hand basket but heat treaters are reveling in a very
significant upturn in business which appears to be growing day by day. On a sadder note we see that Tom
Lotze, one of the pioneers of oxygen probe technology very recently passed away. He will be missed.
We look forward to hearing from our readers with their own news stories.
Whether it be bragging about equipment additions, new products to be launched, exciting new furnace
projects-it is all "grist for the mill" and we look forward to giving you some free advertising.
Best Regards,
Gord
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Heat Treat News
Used Equipment Available. New listings include 2 Ipen P-6 pusher furnaces, 2 Salt Pots -yours for the
price of removal and a NASS Austemper Furnace Line. Complete Batch IQ Line with working dimensions of
30" X 48" X 24" high-absolutely complete and a new, very attractive asking price. A real gem is a batch IQ
furnace with working dimensions of 36" X 48" X 32", top cool, hot oil and all the bells and whistles in
excellent condition; I/O 3000-E Batch IQ Furnace. Associated Batch IQ equipment available includes a
Surface Combustion Double Ended Charge Car and 2 Surface Combustion Dunk/Spray Washers. If you
require endo generators we have a number of units all very well priced, including a Surface 3600 CFH unit
in immaculate condition with an asking price of $29,000 USD-very well priced in our opinion. Moving on to
other items we recently added asking prices for 2 pusher Lines, a single row Ipsen and a Holcroft 2 Row
Pusher listed on our continuous page. Our used equipment listings are constantly changing. If you don't
see what you are looking for please let us know and we should be able to find it for you.
[email protected] April 29/11
Business Opportunities. Do you want results when it comes to filling a position within the heat treating
industry? "The Monty" is the most economical, fastest way to fill that position. Looking for a job? Send
us your ad and we will put it on the site free of charge for as long as you would like. When it comes to
filling positions within the heat treating industry "The Monty" can't be beat! With a readership of almost
20,000 heat treaters/month we will help you fill your position or help you find a job.
Our latest position looking to be filled is a Metallurgist which is required by Akebono Brake Corporation.
Bodycote is in search of Brazing Engineers for the following facilities: Fremont, Calif., and Ipswich, Mass.
Heat Treating Services Unlimited, Inc. (HTSU), a Greenville, SC based service company, is actively
seeking Field Service Technicians. An Aerospace Manufacturer is seeking a Special Processing Supervisor
in Arizona. Another new position added last Friday, this being a commercial heat treater in the US
Northeast looking for a Sales Manager. Two other new positions have just become available a Plant
Manager in Michigan and an Experienced Heat Treater in Canada. Cincinnati Steel Treating located in
Cincinnati, OH has an immediate opening for a Plant Metallurgist. This is just a short summary of positions
within the heat treating industry that are available. April 29/11
Bodycote. Global commercial heat treater Bodycote is seeing what most heat treaters are seeing these
days….improving business. The news report below from Reuters summarizes where the company is at.
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What I find interesting is the specific mention about heat treating of heavy truck components, not quite
sure why this of all the areas Bodycote is involved in deserves a special mention. April 29/11
"Bodycote sees strong FY on demand from heavy truck makers. April 27 (Reuters) - British engineering
company Bodycote said on Wednesday it expected its headline operating profit for financial year 2011 to
be at the top end of analysts' forecasts on demand from heavy truck makers. Bodycote, whose operations
include heat treating jet engine turbine blades and other parts for car and plane makers, said sales for the
three months ended March 31 were 19.2 percent higher than last year. The company serves the
aerospace and defence, automotive, power generation, oil & gas, construction, medical and transportation
industries. "Heavy truck revenues have continued to increase strongly and sales to general industrial
customers have continued the robust performance seen in the latter part of 2010," the company said in a
statement. Analysts forecast a full-year headline operating profit of 55.5 million pounds to 76.6 million
pounds. Bodycote shares, which have gained more than half their value over the past year, closed at
336.4 pence on Tuesday on the London Stock Exchange, valuing the company at 631 million pounds."
Heat Treating Mexico. Yesterday we mentioned how aerospace components manufacturer HerouxDevtek was setting up a new facility in Queretaro, Mexico. We opinioned that if this facility follows the lead
of the other companies in this group any heat treating requirements would be outsourced. A reader in
Mexico (who should know) informed us that there are no commercial heat treaters in Mexico Nadcacp
certified with the possible exception of ALD TT in SALTILLO. April 29/11
Seco Warwick Update. We have encouraged our advertisers to provide us with regular updates about
how they are fairing, new products they are developing and what they are seeing in the market. The latest
update comes from Janusz Kowalewski, General Manager of Seco Warwick in China (new furnaces) who
provided us with these interesting and very gracious comments. April 28/11
"Beijing Heat Treatment Show. "With great expectations, I am waiting for the Beijing May 25th to 27th
Heat Treatment show to see all my friends from the US heat treatment industry. From the public
announcements, it looks as if we are all expanding geographically and materially with new products. An
example of SECO/WARWICK’s newest innovation is an entirely new integral quench furnace “Casemaster
Evolution” with an advanced low pressure carburizing system. Recently, I developed a list of companies
that I personally admire even though many times I’ve competed with some them and wished they weren’t
so good. The biggest surprise was that some of the companies are not very well known and some are of
foreign
origin.
So,
for
better
or
worse,
here
is
my
list:
US/Canada : Harper International, AFC Holcroft, Ipsen USA, Solar Manufacturing, Nitrex.
Europe: Aichelin Austria, Cieffe Italy, Rubig Austria, SECO/WARWICK S.A. Poland, Ebner Austria, LOI
Germany
Asia:
Vac-Long
Taiwan,
San
Yung
Taiwan,
Beijing
Huangxiang
China.
Ulvac
Japan
Many of the companies mentioned above are developing a new standard for innovations or marketing
channels that the heat treatment technology and industry will benefit from. And this is a good thing for
everybody. Janusz Kowalewski, General Manager"
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Heroux-Devtek Inc./Queretaro, Mexico. Based just outside of Montreal, Quebec, Canada Devtek is a
supplier of aerospace components, primarily landing gear. Landing gear heat treating is of course "top
end" with very few companies around the world certified to do this work. The firm has just announced that
they are investing $20 million in a 4,200 square metre facility in the booming Queretaro industrial park
which is home to more than 50 companies involved in the aerospace industry. Plans are that they will
start producing parts early in 2012. If this plant is similar to others in the group we would have to assume
that any heat treating will be outsourced which would be difficult in Mexico with few commercial heaters
having vacuum furnaces Nadcap certified. April 28/11
Elm Plating. A reader sent us this interesting item about Elm Plating in Jackson, Michigan a heat treating
and coasting company focusing on the fastener industry. What makes this article interesting is the effect
the recession had on the company, an experience which mirrored many companies around the world. April
28/11
"In the midst of the recession, Elm Plating was hurting. Sales dropped by 50 percent, pay and benefits for
the workers were cut and 75 percent of workers were laid off. Then its bank complicated things even more
by raising fees and interest rates on the company's loans. It almost caused the plant's closure. But last
year the third-generation family business was awarded a $2.5 million loan guarantee that allowed it to
refinance its debt and bring back laid-off workers. That was made possible by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture Rural Development's Business and Industry Guaranteed Loan Program, and was financed by
the federal stimulus bill. On Tuesday, Judith Canales, federal administrator of the program, was in Jackson
to tour the factory. She thanked executives from Ann Arbor State Bank, which partnered with USDA to
help keep the company afloat. "We can't do it without you guys," she said. Michigan's USDA Rural
Development State Director James Turner said the stimulus helped to fill the funding void when the larger
banks weren't lending to small businesses, or were calling in loans on struggling companies. Elm Plating
President Jonas McCluskey said he spent more than a year trying to find financing to keep the company
going before getting help from the USDA. "It was like a miracle when it finally happened," McCluskey said.
Since receiving the loan, he said the company has more than doubled its employment and he is paying
back the loan well ahead of schedule. The company employs about 120 at its plant, where workers do
finishing and heat treating on bolts and fasteners that are found in many vehicles. He has also purchased
an additional facility that gives them room for a new line of business, using an organic coating process.
"Business is really strong right now," he said."
CM Forge Group/Dixie Industries. The Columbus McKinnon Forge Group consists of two manufacturing
divisions, Midland Forge, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Dixie Industries in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Our focus
today is on Dixie Industries which makes forged components for ratchets primarily for the towing and
forestry industries. The company very recently started up their new in house heat treating department
which consists primarily of direct fired belt furnaces and pit draws. The company is to some extent
bucking a small trend towards outsourcing to commercial operations however there are quite a number of
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reasons that manufacturers prefer to heat treat in house such as turnaround times and the ability to
control all aspects of their manufacturing. April 27/11
General Motors, Willow Run Plant/Ypsilanti, Michigan. May 17th to the 20th an auction will be held
for the equipment at the General Motors Willow Run transmission facility. Amongst the thousands of gear
machines available will be a smattering of used heat treat furnaces including several Holcroft
carbonitriding furnaces, some generators and a couple of belt furnaces. April 27/11
McLaughlin Services LLC. A fellow in the North American heat treating industry that we know quite well
asked if he could brag a bit about a new project he just did. Jeff McLaughlin of McLaughlin Services in Fort
Wayne, Indiana is probably best known as a furnace rebuilder/maintenance individual however Jeff also
has built quite a number of new furnaces over the years.The photos below show a project he has just
completed for 3 new furnaces which he built from scratch and had up and running in just 13 days which is
quite a feat considering these were custom built for this particular customer. These particular furnaces
were designed for normalizing at 2,000F. "All of us here at McLaughlin Services would like to thank all the
guys at Custom Electric, Super Systems, Summit Controls, and Wick-Fab. It takes a lot of hard work for a
project like this one to all come together. Jeff McLaughlin". April 26/11
Accurate Steel Treating Inc./Southgate, California, USA. Several years ago we made the prediction
that thermal salt processing would decrease due to environmental considerations. Reflecting upon this we
have to admit that this was not one of our more accurate predictions. Yes a number of older salt pot lines
have disappeared due to environmental issues and the cost of electricity however at the end of the day
salt is an excellent way of heat treating. We were partly correct (well maybe less than half right) but heat
treaters still buy new salt lines. Witness Accurate Steel Treating in California, a larger than average
commercial heat treater which offers Ion Nitriding, Vacuum, Gas Nitriding and batch IQ processing. The
company just installed and now has running a brand new high speed salt line built by Ajax. To this story
we have to add that heat treating in California is a world unto itself. With generally small volume,
aerospace related work the type of equipment that you see is quite unlike other areas of North America if
not the world. Of course we should add that it is typically higher margin work than areas such as Michigan
which is high volume, low margin. April 26/11
Solar Atmospheres Viewpoint. Our advertisers (which is a fine cross section of the most impressive
companies involved in the heat treating industry) are free to send us updates on what they are seeing in
the industry. Commercial vacuum heat treater Solar Atmospheres, probably the largest in North America
gives us this very cheerful update. April 25/11
"Current Industry View from the Solar Atmosphere Companies. All of our Solar H.T. plants are
running at near capacity except California where volume is just building, after start up in March. Recovery
from the 09 / 10 recession is short of amazing. Some older customers are not back but this business has
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been replaced by new vacuum brazing accounts, our growing vacuum carburizing and vacuum nitriding
business, raw material processing like titanium and tantalum hydriding, and new processes spinning out of
our R&D center. We have continually invested in new vacuum furnaces adding two production furnaces
over the last year in our Souderton, Pa. facility and investing in several new fully computer controlled
furnace systems. Investment in several new high efficiency hot zones has been completed in both our
Souderton, and Hermitage, Pa. plants. We expect H.T. business to remain firm through this year with a
possible slight turn down in mid 2012 due to political uncertainly, and other economic predictions supplied
from the MTI business forecast.
Solar Manufacturing has a near one year backlog for new vacuum furnace business, primary from the
North American market, a major order from China, and good additional business potential from Europe.
Our engineering department is working on a new, yet to be announced, larger vacuum furnace, with
enhanced gas quenching capabilities, with the objective to fully harden alloy materials like 4140 and 8620,
in production quantities. This new furnace will be exhibited in the 2011 ASM heat treating exhibition and
conference set for Oct 31 in Cincinnati, Ohio. In summary, current business is good and will continue
because of the “Brightest Solutions Through Ingenuity” and investment. William R. Jones, CEO"
News Worth Knowing. "Metal Treating Institute" (MTI) is reporting sales for commercial heat
treaters in North America were up 21% for March of 2011 as opposed to the same period in 2010. For the
year so far total sales for MTI members (keep in mind that while MTI represents a majority of commercial
heat treaters in North America and is the largest organization of it's kind in the world some heat treaters
most notably Bodycote do not belong to the organization) have increased to $238 million USD an
improvement of almost 25%. Michigan saw the largest growth rate at 31% which is of course almost
entirely based on the automotive industry. Our personal feeling is that issues in Japan due to the recent
earthquakes has prompted Japanese auto makers to source more parts in North America hence a growth
in heat treating. On April 6 at 11:45 p.m., an explosive device was detonated in the parking lot of
commercial heat treater "R & R Heat Treating Company" in East Stroudsburg, PA. No injuries, minimal
damage and no idea who did this according to police. "BendPak" in Santa Paula, California, USA is
starting construction of a new 480,000 square-foot manufacturing facility. Wait for it-yes you are correct
the new facility will include a metallurgical lab, heat treating and an automated powder coating line. The
company makes light and medium duty lift products, select parking systems, as well as other vehicle
repair tools and equipment. "Engineered Sintered Components" in Troutman, NC is planning on
investing $9 million USD into their powdered metal auto parts facility. Whether this includes new sintering
or heat treating furnaces is unknown. April 25/11
Odds & Ends. "ASM HTS (American Society of Metals, Heat Treating Society) and IFHTSE (International
Federation of Heat Treating and Surface Engineering) are working together to bring the "6th
International Conference on Quenching and Distortion" back to the US. It is preliminarily scheduled
for middle of September 2012. The venue has yet to be determined. This event was first held 20 years
ago in Lincolnshire IL. Since then it has been held in Cleveland, Prague, Beijing and Berlin. We hope to
have a very good event on the 20th anniversary of this event. The Conference co-chairs are D. Scott
MacKenzie (USA) and Professor Bozidar Liscic (Croatia). We have a very strong international and
domestic Organizing Committee and hope to have a very strong technical event. It is expected that the
call for papers will go out in the very near future once details have been resolved." (Editors note; Gord
Montgomery is part of the organizing committee and as part of this will be asking for papers and
presenters). "Acetylene Shortage". Recent news items on this website have warned about the possible
shortage of acetylene which could cause enormous issues to companies doing vacuum carburizing.
Currently suppliers in North America are generally not accepting new customers but vowing to maintain
shipments to existing customers. However due to offshore supplies becoming available it is expected that
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within 4 weeks the situation will return to normal. "Linamar Driveline Systems" in Nuevo Laredo,
Mexico is currently installing a large ECM vacuum carburizing system with installation expected to be
completed shortly. "Dave Stanton" who has been in the heat treating industry for quite some time has
joined Rexnord Bearings in the Indianapolis, Indiana, USA area as Process Engineer in charge of heat
treating, good man Dave. "Brevini Wind" in Yorktown, Indiana has just signed an agreement to supply
gearboxes to Windwind in Chennai, India. Brevini Wind was in the news August of 2010 when they
purchased a large batch IQ line from AFC-Holcroft in Wixom, Michigan. "Chennai: Winwind Ltd has signed
an agreement with Brevini Wind, a part of the Brevini Group to supply main gearboxes for Winwind's 1MW turbines to Winwind's manufacturing and assembly plant in India. The development and supply
agreement is for the manufacturing of 1 MW main gearboxes at Brevini Wind's newly established factory
in Yorktown, Indiana." April 21/11
Batch IQ Furnace Sizing. The most common size of batch IQ furnace in the world is the 30" X 48" X 30"
unit pioneered by Surface Combustion many years ago. Over the years thousands upon thousands of this
size furnace have been produced until they were eclipsed a number of years back by 36" X 48" X 36" or
36" X 72" X 36" size units. Then a funny thing happened, the recession hit, volumes shrunk and became
more sporadic and in the aftermath the smaller size furnace became wildly popular because of their
versatility. Their popularity has become such that prices for used units have risen dramatically and they
have become very hard to find on the used market. Now what is very odd is that while the "Super 30" size
furnaces are selling like hotcakes on the used market this does not translate into increased sales of new
furnaces this size. Most manufacturers of new furnaces still find the larger sizes to be what is selling,
Example; Surface Combustion is rumored to have 15 batch IQ furnaces on the floor in various stages of
construction and to the best of our knowledge all or most are 36" X 48" X 36" size or their larger cousin
72" deep. So the irony is that while on the used market the smaller sized furnaces are in highest demand,
on the new market the larger sizes are what are being purchased. Our best guess is that the larger
furnaces are very hard to find on the used market meaning buyers have no choice but to buy new. April
20/11
Ipsen Viewpoint April 2011. In our continuing efforts to make sure that our readers have the most up
to date news and industry trends available we have asked our advertisers to provide us with updated
reports about changes they have made and what they are seeing in the industry. Ipsen has provided the
"Ipsen Viewpoint" which we expect to be a ongoing effort. What I find most interesting are the comments
about recent expansions and new plants and the "tantalizing" hint about more manufacturing in North
America which we would assume means another facility. April 19/11
"At Ipsen we disagree with recent articles predicting that the end is near for American manufacturing. In
fact, our team is affirming every day that this is not the case. Driven by the motto, "Hard Work Wins," we
are dedicated to an intense focus on innovation, service and support, which we believe reflects why
American manufacturing continues to thrive.
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." - Steve Jobs
No matter your industry, innovation is an advantage. In the example of cars, the car-maker works hard to
understand customer needs and overlays as well as macro-economic trends, environmental concerns,
energy consumption, cost and design. After all the analysis is complete, they take a leap of faith that they
did their homework correctly and start producing 40 per hour.
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In 2008, Ipsen's Innovation team believed that this business model should also apply to heat treatment,
and an initiative called Project TITAN was born. Global acceptance of the American-made TITAN Vacuum
Furnace has exceeded expectations with systems already sold into 15 different countries, but we can't just
sit back and relax on the heels of that success. Our Innovation team is now busy working on TITAN 2.0.
American manufacturers realize that - service takes commitment - providing a quality product means
providing quality support. In recent years, we noticed that many of our customers' highly skilled
maintenance workers and technicians were retiring and not being replaced. We saw this change as an
opportunity to re-affirm our focus on service.
We started a program last year to double our service team within two years through a training school. We
then decided that this training could also help our customers build their knowledge base, and Ipsen
University (IpsenU) was born. Creating a standard development program has been a key building block for
providing all around quality to our customers.
American manufacturing's success is also linked to building a strong global support network. Globally,
Ipsen is expanding to better serve our customers. In the last year alone, we doubled our manufacturing
factory space in China, opened a service, sales and testing facility in Malaysia to serve ASEAN countries,
expanded our team in Brazil and broke ground in Bangalore for our second facility in India. The next 12
months will be no less active with further expansion plans - including expansion in the USA. With
continued focus on innovation, service and global support, American manufacturing is here to stay,
because. Hard Work Wins."
The Ipsen Install team installs a TITAN H4 - installed and online in 3 days
Jim Grann teaches an Ipsen U class.
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Ipsen Shanghai opened a second plant in greater Shanghai region town of Changzhou. The factory was
opened in mid-March to meet sharply increasing local demand in China for Ipsen thermal processing
equipment.
"Inductoheat, Inc.: 21 Systems Shipped and Order is Complete. Madison Heights, MI - Inductoheat,
Inc., the world’s leading induction heating equipment manufacturer, shipped the last StatiScan® IV
system of a 21 unit order. These customized systems were manufactured for a world leader in the mining
and oil sands exploration and are being used for induction hardening and tempering drill rods and
hardening pipe-end threads. For more information about this or additional thermal processing solutions,
visit www.inductoheat.com." April 19/11
Acetylene Shortage. The hot topic in the world of heat treating over the past few days has been a
potential shortage of acetylene, primarily used in the heat treating industry in vacuum carburizing
applications (for the complete background please scroll down this page). Because this could prove to be a
major headache to the industry we have been researching the potential effects. Below we have comments
from two experts, Mr. Bob Esper, Marketing Manager, Aerospace and Automotive, Praxair Inc., (a
major supplier of industrial gases including acetylene) and Mr. Bill Jones of Solar Atmospheres (a very
large commercial vacuum heat treater in the US). To add to these comments we have been told by two
suppliers that there will be shortages, the only question is how serious they will be. April 18/11
"Acetylene is available to the LPC market commercially in two forms, industrial grade and chemical grade.
Both grades of acetylene are suitable for the carburizing process, the difference between the two grades is
the amount and type of impurities as well as the solvent used in acetylene cylinders. Industrial grade
acetylene is generated from a reaction involving calcium carbide and water. The calcium carbide process is
175 years old and still a good commercial process. Chemical acetylene is produced as a byproduct of
ethylene production in a continuous process. Although acetylene is acetylene, the two different production
methods mean there are different impurities and differing levels of impurities with each grade. Chemical
acetylene is generally higher purity with an overall lower level of other carbon species. The higher purity
translates into more reproducible, controllable carburizing cycles. Another major difference in the two
grades is the transport solvent. Acetylene is an unstable gas and needs to be transported in solution.
Industrial acetylene uses acetone as the solvent. Chemical acetylene is dissolved in dimethyl formamide
(DMF). The advantage of DMF is its lower volatility vs. acetone. For the LPC cycle this means lower risk of
the transport solvent being drawn into the furnace with the acetylene. The DMF solvent again means a
more reproducible, controlled carburizing process. Bob Esper, Praxair."
"Acetylene Issues. The very unfortunate explosion occurred about one month ago in a plant in Kentucky
supplying an ingredient of Acetylene. The Kentucky plant supplies 70% of the North American market. Our
supplier is PraxAir and in a telephone conversation today “they expressed some concern but not a panic.
They have alternate US sources and overseas sources of supply for this component of Acetylene. The
major use of Acetylene is for steel cutting, touch brazing, soldering, and the like. These are the heavy
users and with torch head conversion can convert to the lower cost propane.” Our purchasing department
was not advised of a problem or placed on allocation. Although our Magnetic Specialty plant using
acetylene for torch brazing was advised of the problem by another supplier and “suggested alternate gas
considerations for fuel i.e. propane or propylene.” It should be noted the consumption of acetylene in
vacuum carburizing is a fraction of the gas usage as compared to traditional atmospheric use of propane
or natural gas. This is because acetylene use in the vacuum carburizing reaction is only on the surface of
the steel alloy, catalytic if you wish, and not throughout the furnace, as in traditional atmospheric gas
carburizing, resulting in excess soot and tar build up. At Solar we do use the higher purity grade of
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Acetylene, which of course carries a premiere price, more favorable to suppliers, as compared to lower
grade high production torch users. William R. Jones, CEO, Solar Atmospheres Inc., Souderton, Pa."
Tom Lotze 1928-2011. Steve Thompson of SSI shares his thoughts about Tom Lotze who passed away
this past Friday. Like Steve I will always cherish good memories of Tom and will remember him as truly a
pioneer in the field of oxygen probes in heat treating applications. April 18/11
"I wanted to share with you and your readers the recent passing of Thomas H. Lotze. Tom, as many will
remember, contributed a great deal to our industry. Tom first met my father, Bill Thompson, in the late
70’s at Cambridge Instruments. Together, along with Ted Berry, they co-founded Marathon Monitors and
Super Systems, Inc. Tom was one of the first scientists involved with the zirconia oxygen probe
technology as it was introduced to the heat treating market. His designs and never ending passion for his
work continues to touch thousands of people throughout the world. Tom, along with his wife Jody, will be
missed but never forgotten. Steve Thompson, President, SSI."
"LOTZE, Thomas, age 82, died April 15, 2011, Gibsonia, PA. Thomas H., Sr., 82, of Gibsonia, PA, formerly
of Altadena CA, Haddonfield NJ, Warminster and McMurray PA, Rochester, Peekskill and Fishkill NY,
Woodbury, CT, and Fairfield OH, peacefully joined his wife Joanne (Jody) B. (Bellas) Lotze, dying Friday,
April 15, 2011. Born July 5, 1928 in Canton, OH, the only child of Louis A. Lotze and Veronica G. (Warner)
Lotze, he grew up in both the Akron OH and Los Angeles CA environs. He was a very proud fighting Irish
graduate of Notre Dame in 1950 with a degree in Chemical Engineering. Devoted
husband for 56 years of Joanne, married September 1, 1951 in Sharon PA. Loving
father of six children: Dr. Michael T. (Dr. Joan Harvey) Lotze of Pittsburgh, PA, John
J. (Linda) Lotze of Brockport, NY; Hilary A. (Roger) Larkin of Gibsonia, PA, Jill I.
(Jeffrey) Duell of Greece, NY; Andrew L. (Amy) Lotze of Fairport, NY; and Thomas H.
(Sharon) Lotze of Charlotte, NC; brother-in-law of Andrea E. (Bellas) Wright of
Sharon, PA and Ruth (Croce) Bellas of Fairfax, VA. Tom is survived by 19
grandchildren, 9 great-grandchildren and two nieces spanning the globe from PA to
CA to NC to Upstate NY to FL to China. Tom was fiercely supportive of his family, a
brilliant chemical engineer. He held numerous patents for process engineering
including pH meters (Fisher Scientific and Cambridge Instruments), and heat
treatment probes and processes. He co-founded Marathon Monitors, and then Super
Systems Inc. with his friends and colleagues Bill Thompson and Ted Berry. Based in Cincinnati OH where,
until 76 years of age, he designed products and provided customer training. "I Love my family… for what
they are… not what they could be… but for what they want to be... and willing to work at it. They may
never be wealthy, but I guarantee you they will be happy. -Ol' Dad" Family and friends gathered at Holy
Savior Cemetery, Richland Twp. on April 16 at 1:30pm to honor Tom. Memorial contributions may be
made to the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Suite 1B, 5150 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA
15232. Arrangements entrusted to Schellhaas Funeral Home, Ltd., Bakerstown, PA."
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Bohler-Uddeholm Thermo-Tech/Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Bohler-Udedeholm is without a
shadow of a doubt one of the most impressive commercial heat treaters in the world. With a number of
relatively new, top end vacuum furnace in an impeccably clean location it really is a pleasure to see this
plant. We mention them today because the facility has a new Plant Manager, "Mr. Grant Robinson" who
until recently was the General Manager at captive/commercial heat treater Fused Metals in Georgetown,
Ontario. April 18/11
Potential Acetylene Shortage. For the background to this story we would suggest you scroll down to
the news item of yesterday (April 14/2011) but this is the brief summary. A recent explosion at a plant in
Louisville, Kentucky, USA has caused a severe disruption in the supply of acetylene which is crucial to heat
treaters doing vacuum carburizing. Based upon the story of yesterday we did some investigating as to
how this would affect heat treaters, this combined with feedback from our readers yielded this information
(we are hoping that one of the major suppliers of acetylene elaborates upon this Monday). The acetylene
produced by the plant in Louisville is actually a by-product of their process and would be considered an
"industrial" grade which if we understand correctly is a lower grade commonly used in welding. In North
America the alternative is a higher grade known as Acetylene DMF which is produced at a separate facility
and used by approximately half of heat treaters doing vacuum carburizing in North America with the other
half of course uses the lower "industrial" grade. As an example we understand that the largest commercial
vacuum carburizer in North America, ALD Thermal Treatment in Port Huron, Michigan uses the higher
grade and is assured of a steady supply. However the question remains; "Assuming the Industrial grade
acetylene will remain in extremely short supply will production from Acetylene DMF be enough to meet
demand"? We have heard that it might not. At this point we also understand that virtually all companies in
North America doing vacuum carburizing have expressed concern about this situation and are trying to
insure a continued supply. More to come. April 15/11
Carbide Industries/Louisville, KY, USA. Fairly recently we mentioned how the Carbide Industries
facility in Louisville, Kentucky which manufactures calcium carbonate suffered a terrible explosion which
killed two workers and shut the plant down. At the time our comment was that this could have
tremendous consequences for the heat treating industry and unfortunately it would appear that this
prophecy could possibly come true. Calcium Carbonate is a major ingredient in acetylene and this facility if
we understand correctly produces any where up to 70% of what is required. With the facility closed for an
indefinite period shortages of acetylene are already being felt. Why this potentially will have a very large
effect on the heat treating industry goes back to the history of Vacuum Carburizing. Originally vacuum
carburizing furnaces used propane as the carburizing gas, until it was discovered that acetylene does a
much better job. Because of this most vacuum carburizing applications switched to acetylene, what % of
VC units uses this medium we are unsure of however I would venture to guess most. With shortages and
rationing starting to come into effect this might mean VC furnaces shut down or converted to propane
which will of course take time. As most automotive transmission gears are processed in VC units this could
result in slowdowns in production of transmissions rippling throughout the whole auto industry in North
America and possibly the world. Reduced transmission manufacturing equals less automotive production.
We have already heard from several companies that they are facing shortages, if you have seen the same
thing or have thoughts on the matter we would appreciate hearing about them either anonymously or with
your name attached. April 14/11
"LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Carbide Industries is launching its own investigation into the explosion at its
Rubbertown plant that killed two employees last month. While investigators are silent about the cause, the
company is concentrating on an aging furnace at the center of the explosion. Carbide Industries general
manager confirms the company is flying in experts from around the world to figure out what triggered that
massive explosion. Carbide Industries General Manager John Gant took WLKY on an inside tour of the
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Rubbertown plant, including the eerie, burned-out remnants of a building that once housed a gigantic arc
furnace. On March 21, an explosion and massive fireball ripped through this building, killing two workers.
There are no official findings yet. "We've ruled out arson; we've ruled out employee error. It was some
condition inside the furnace which caused an explosion," Gant said. An arc furnace that cooked coke and
lime at temperatures of nearly 8,000 degrees to produce calcium carbonate, the highly volatile key
ingredient in acetylene torches. The furnace at the center of the explosion received routine maintenance
but Gant admitted it was due to be replaced in 2015. "It's a 29-year-old furnace," he said. "The typical life
had been 10 years prior to that until the rebuild of 1982." Still, Gant said there was nothing to indicate
there was anything wrong until the explosion ripped through the plant three weeks ago. "We don't think
there's something we overlooked, but obviously, we didn't intent for what happened to happen," he said.
Three separate investigations are now under way to figure out what did happen, including a Chemical
Safety Board review, but findings could take months -- even years. Carbide Industries is flying in experts
from around the world to conduct an internal investigation. "We want an unbiased, third party opinion,"
Gant said. "That's our main reason." The company also wants to find the cause quickly. Plans are under
way to install a new arc furnace and new building, with a startup date of April 2012. "When we start back
up, we have to know what happened, so we can prevent this from happening again," Gant said."
Odds & Ends. "Dibalog USA" has announced that they have landed orders for three (3) energy
optimization systems within the past few weeks. Two are from captive heat treaters in the southern US
and one is from a commercial heat treater in the Midwest. Dibalog is based in Heidelberg, Germany and
has over 1,000 installations around the world including almost 20 in North America. The company offers
energy optimization systems as a way of cutting down electrical heating costs in heat treating applications
http://www.dibalog.com/ The news item below is of interest as the "Metal Improvement" division of
Curtiss-Wright is one of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America with 6 locations around the
US, including Fort Wayne, Indiana, Wichita, Kansas, Lafayette, LA, Roselle, NJ, Salem, Ohio and
Emigsville, PA. At first glance this looks to be a very good fit for the company. "PARSIPPANY, N.J., Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE:CW) today announced that it has completed its purchase of the assets
of BASF's Surface Technologies business from BASF Corporation. The Surface Technologies business is a
leading supplier of thermal spray coatings for aerospace and power generation markets, and it will become
part of Curtiss-Wright's Metal Treatment segment. BASF's Surface Technologies business generated sales
of approximately $29 million in 2010 and has approximately 150 employees at its three operating facilities
located in East Windsor, CT, Wilmington, MA and Duncan, SC. All three facilities are ISO 9001 certified
and Nadcap accredited for thermal spray coating of aerospace components." "John Deere" Waterloo
Works in Waterloo, Iowa, USA is making a substantial investment in their heat treating department in the
form of a number of large batch IQ furnaces. Our understanding is that installation will start shortly. Heat
treating departments are always the "red headed stepchild" of any manufacturing facility and it is
impressive to see a manufacturer making such a large investment in their heat treating department. April
14-16th "AGMA and ABMA" (American Gear Manufacturers Association and American Bearing
Manufacturers Association) will be holding their annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas. While this is not a
heat treat meeting as such the topic will be heavily discussed as it is such an integral part of the gear and
bearing manufacturing process and it could certainly be argued that this segment is one of the largest in
the world when it comes to heat treating requirements. April 13/11
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Vac Aero International/Samsung. Now this is a real coup for Canadian company Vac Aero
International-an order for a very large vacuum furnace in Korea. Vac Aero is one of the largest commercial
vacuum heat treaters in North America while at the same time it is one of the top 5 builders of new
vacuum furnaces in North America. April 12/11
"World leader in Consumer Electronics Purchases First Vacuum Furnace from VAC AERO International!
OAKVILLE, Ontario, (April 11, 2011) - Korea-based Samsung Electronics has recently purchased a vacuum
furnace for hardening their captive press and plastic die moulds used in the manufacture of mobile
phones, LCD & OLED & PDF, refrigerator and washing machines. The furnace will be housed in Samsung's
new state-of-the Art facility in Gwangju Metropolitan City, Korea. The VAH6660 HV-6 is equipped with VAC
AERO's Honeywell HC900 interactive control system with complete network integration capabilities and
remote monitoring and control. The hot zone measures 48 in. wide 48 in. high 60 in. deep and comes with
a hot zone comprised high efficiency graphite felt, carbon composite and curved graphite elements. The
furnace operates at temperatures of up to 2400F. The vacuum pumping system includes a diffusion pump
for high vacuum applications to 10-5 Torr. Shipment is anticipated for summer 2011 delivery. This new
furnace will be the first of an anticipated three furnace order for VAC AERO's Oakville, Ontario-based
furnace manufacturing facility."
"Amarillo College/Lucifer Furnaces. Amarillo College, in the Texas panhandle, has installed a Lucifer
Furnaces Model HS84 Dual Chamber Furnace in their Manufacturing Technologies Department. The
furnace has two 12"H x 12"W x 24"L chambers mounted in a space saving arrangement. The upper
hardening chamber heats to 2450°F while the lower tempering chamber reaches 1400°F. With a heavy
gauge sheet steel reinforced shell and numerous safety features this rugged unit is well suited for the
needs of an educational facility. The upper chamber is insulated with 6 ½ inches of dry fit lightweight
ceramic fiber and mineral wool block for energy efficiency and heated with silicon carbide elements
mounted across the roof and below the hearth. An SCR power supply provides a steady low amperage and
voltage supply to the elements for longer life. A double pivot horizontal swing door keeps the hot face
away from the user at all times. The lower chamber is lined with insulating firebrick, mineral wool backup,
and a stainless steel liner, and heated with coiled heating elements in easy-to-replace holders mounted
along the side walls. A high volume rear mounted fan recirculates heat for uniform temperature. A
Honeywell digital time proportioning temperature controller is mounted in a separate cabinet on the side.
Professor Kim Hays, Chair of the Manufacturing Technologies Department, chose the furnace as part of the
school's program to teach the principals of heat treating of metals and describes the furnace as "ideal" for
the school's needs. Specifically he notes that this unit met his requirements both in terms of space and
budget. He praises the assistance he received prior to ordering the furnace and calls Lucifer's HS84
models "…the simplest most functional ovens that I have worked with. Everyone is impressed." April
12/11
Gas Nitride or Plasma Nitride. Well known heat treat consultant David Pye, [email protected] is
providing us with some details about what to consider when choosing between Gas or Plasma Nitriding.
April 11/11
The choice between gas nitriding and plasma nitriding is usually a very difficult choice to make. The choice
will come down to depend on;
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Capital Investment: The capital investment always seems to be considered as the driving force for the
decision. Yes, the plasma systems are more costly than with the gas nitride. That is a correct assumption.
But that seems to be where it stops. When making the cost comparison, between the two process
techniques will generally be finished at the purchase price line. To have a true cost comparison, one really
needs to consider the cost comparison of operating costs as well as the primary investment. It will then
come down to considering the corporate amortization period of depreciation. After that, it really comes
down to the operating costs. Once the equipment is amortized then it comes down to the direct operating
costs of the equipment. It will be seen, that after the amortization period is complete, and then operating
costs of the plasma technology are reduced, because of the nature of the process. This is because of
process gas usage and power costs are lower. The writer has experienced the following approximate value
to obtain a conventional nitrided case, as being;
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100ft³ of ammonia gas for 100ft² (approximate) of available surface area. (This is based on 5 to 7
process gas volume changes per hour). It further considers process temperature and time at
process temperature. The reason for the process gas volume on gas nitriding being high is simply
because the process vessel is being pressurized to a slight positive atmospheric pressure to act as
a ‘sweep gas’ to ensure process gas circulation within the process retort and work.
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3 ft³ of process gas per hour (approximately)(nitrogen and hydrogen) for 100ft² work surface area.
The reason for the low flow volume is because we are only using the gas necessary to generate the
activity within plasma glow seam.
Logistics
The logistics consideration will be based on the;
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What is the distance of travel from the manufacturing house to the heat treatment shop?
Do we have the equipment to enable us to observe and control the surface metallurgy achievable.
(Laboratory sample evaluation equipment)?
How quickly will the processed part be processed by the commercial heat treater?
Do we have the appropriate floor space to accommodate the equipment?
Can we maintain and service the equipment?
Process evaluation
The question is now, how to test, evaluate, and most importantly, how do we control the process? A small
metallurgical laboratory can be developed (or it is a pre-existing laboratory) for the process evaluation
that would include the following equipment;
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A pre-grind system for rough grind with silicon carbide papers
A rough polish using silicon carbide papers
Final polish using the appropriate grade of polishing cloth and either an aluminum slurry or
diamond paste
Micro-hardness test unit
Inverted metallurgical microscope
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Fume hood for simple acid etching
Spill kit
The above will enable you to process most metallurgical samples and not just nitride evaluation. The
process control will come from the furnace control panel and its method of;
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Heating power control
The above is just some of control parameters that should be observed. Nitriding (gaseous or plasma)
process parameters need to be controlled if we are to produce continuous surface metallurgy and
reproducible results.
Hayes Heat Treating. Commercial heat treater Hayes Heat Treating in Cranston, Rhode Island, USA
suffered a small fire last week. The details below come from the 'Cranston Patch". April 11/11
"Cranston Firefighters responded to a fire at Hayes Heat Treating on Wellington Avenue Wednesday night
after a furnace malfunction. Nobody was injured. Firefighters said five employees were inside when the
fire erupted. They called the fire department who helped knock down the fire that started in the furnace
and traveled upwards to the ceiling. Fire officials will return to the scene tomorrow to search for a cause.
It is expected the business will open for business as well. Three engines and two rescue vehicles
responded to the scene. Hayes Heat Treating, located at 800 Wellington Ave., is a specialty heat treating
and brazing facility, according to the company's website. The business was established in 1962."
Alfe Heat Treating. North America's largest commercial aluminum processor, Alfe Heat Treating would
appear to be a generous bunch. April 11/11
"Alfe Heat Treating donated $5,000 - in the form of two scholarships at $2,500 apiece - to IPFW's Richard
T. Doermer School of Business and the College of Engineering, Technology and Computer Science,
respectively. A news release from the university said Alfe Heat Treating's first donation to the university
was more than 10 years ago for $500 and that the company's contributions continued to grow over the
years."
PPC/Metallum, LLC. With a very modern, impressive 80,000 square feet facility commercial heat treater
PPC was a good sized operation in Canton, Ohio. The company offered open fire continuous Normalizing,
Annealing (Full, Subcritical, Isothermal, Spherodize), Stress Relieving, shot blasting and coating. Late last
year the firm closed down and set up shop as Metallum LLC in Minerva, OH. Unfortunately things did not
work out as planned and very unfortunately Metallum closed earlier this year. Because the company did
have fairly large capacity this has benefitted the other large players in this market, Atmosphere Annealing,
Heat Treating Services, Woodworth and Commercial Steel Treating Corp. April 8/11
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"Ipsen Ships Vertical TITAN® V6 Model (April 7, 2011, Cherry Valley, IL) –Ipsen, Inc. recently
shipped a 2-Bar TITAN® V6 to the Texas plant of a top three global energy company. The bottom-loading
TITAN® V6, with a 60 x 60 inch work area, shipped on one standard truck and was installed within days
by Ipsen’s field service team. The TITAN® V6 offers energy efficiency, reduced footprint, easy to remove
hot zone and heat exchanger, load-proximity controls, VacuProf 4 and much more. This particular model
also included several standard options – all metal hot zone, operator access platform, 1000 gallon backfill
reservoir tank, controlled cooling using a variable speed drive, and 10 Torr Hydrogen partial pressure.
With more than 60 years of thermal processing expertise, Ipsen provides the solutions heat treaters need
to be successful: energy and cost efficiency, reliable robust equipment, manufacturing and service
locations worldwide, 24-hour service, aftermarket support – parts and service, engineered components –
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http://www.ipsenusa.com for more information. About Ipsen, Inc: Ipsen, Inc. designs and manufactures
thermal processing systems for a wide variety of markets, including Aerospace, Medical, Energy, Chemical
and Automotive. With thousands of installed systems worldwide, whether it's innovative titanium knee
implants, making cars more efficient, developing new jet engines or going to the moon, Ipsen delivers
quality." April 8/11
Halliburton/Lafayette, LA. Halliburton, one of the world's largest oilfield services companies, plans on
building a new, $65 million manufacturing plant in Lafayette, LA, USA. The facility will be 200,000 square
feet with construction to start in July of 2011 with completion by the end of the first quarter of 2012. Long
time readers will know of course where this is heading, in addition to turning and milling equipment the
plant will also have an in house heat treating department. Currently Halliburton includes heat treating in a
number of their facilities, while we are guessing on this our guess would be that the heat treating will take
the form of batch IQ furnaces. April 7/11
Bluewater Thermal/Jennifer McPeek. Now this is very interesting, Jennifer McPeek has joined
Bluewater Thermal as their Southeast Region Business Develpment Manager. Jennifer ran Suncoast Heat
Treating for many years, very competently as we understand it and when the company was acquired by
Braddock Metallurgical we lost track of her. Excellent fit with Bluewater in our opinion. April 7/11
Bluewater Thermal Solutions/Jennifer McPeek. "MCPEEK APPOINTED BLUEWATER’S BUSINESS
DEVELOPMENT MANAGER – SOUTHEAST REGION Jennifer McPeek has been appointed to the position of
Business Development Manager – Southeast Region for Bluewater Thermal Solutions. Terry Brown,
Bluewater’s Director – Commercial states “Jennifer’s experience, industry contacts, and professionalism
will make her a valuable team member and an important part of Bluewater’s growth plans.” Jennifer has
over 20 years experience in the commercial heat treat industry, holding several positions of increasing
responsibility including marketing, customer service, finance mergers and acquisitions, and NADCAP
certification, most recently as Director of Operations at Suncoast Heat Treating."
Odds & Ends. "Bill St. Thomas" (we believe his official title was Sales Manager, Vacuum Carburizing) at
Ipsen has parted ways with the company. Bill is a long time member of the heat treating community and a
very experienced guy. "Greg McFee" formally of Lindberg and most recently Thermal One in Ohio, USA is
now the General Manager of commercial heat treater Desert Fire Industries Inc., in Phoenix, Arizona.
Nothing to do with anything but "Desert Fire" has to be my favorite name for a heat treat. Recently we
had a brief write up about commercial heat treater and new furnace builder "Rubig Engineering" in
Wels, Austria. We included one photo with the original story but missed the one below. This is one of the
most impressive, cleanest Ion Nitriding operations that I have ever seen. April 6/11
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Rubig Engineering/Wels, Austria. plasmanitriding and surface engineering department
Bodycote. So how is worldwide commercial heat treater Bodycote doing these days? We regularly post
their financial results however to better demonstrate how the company is doing have a look at the chart
below showing the share price for the company over the past year. As you can see the stock is doing very
well and while not at the level it was several years ago it is getting closer every day. April 6/11
Metallurgical Enterprises/Rossville, Georgia, USA. Commercial heat treater Metallurgical Enterprises
in Rossville, Georgia is in the process of shutting down. This was a very small commercial shop that over
the past few years had been relying on one customer. Always a shame to see. April 5/11
Marty Keylon. One very well known individual in the heat treating industry in California is Mr. Marty
Keylon. For years he was with commercial heat treater Bodycote eventually becoming the "direct spoken"
(which is of course slang for speaking his mind) General Manager of the Santa Anna facility. Marty left the
company a number of years back and after a short interval became Senior Sales Manager for North
American Cronite (cast high temperature alloy components). His path has changed slightly and he has
joined that elite brotherhood of independent manufactures reps serving the heat treating industry. His
new company is called "Keylon Thermal Consulting" which will serve as a rep organization for North
American Cronite, BeaverMatic as well as consulting and mock OSHA inspections. He will be covering Calif,
Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, ND, and SD. April 5/11
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Nickel Pricing. The chart below gives you the latest on nickel pricing and for buyers of furnace alloy
fixturing and components it hurts a bit. April 5/11
Names in the News. "Mike Roy" has been hired by Ipsen (new furnaces) as a field service technician in
the New England area. Our personal feeling at "The Monty" is that this is one of the hardest positions to
fill. Finding people with good qualifications that are willing to spend most of their time on the road away
from family is not easy. Hauck-Kromschroder has hired "Mike San Antonio" as Commercial Sales
Manager. Hauck-Kromshroder is a manufacturer of burners and controls. Bodycote (commercial heat
treating) in Eden Prairie, Minnesota has hired "Mike Cornelius" as General Manager. This particular
location offers Batch IQ, Continuous, vacuum and nitrocarburizing amongst other processes. April 4/11
Japan. We have two first hand reports from Japan and how the recent earthquakes/nuclear situation has
affected the country, industry and heat treating. The first comes from Julian Bashore of Bodycote, Japan.
The second comes from a friend of Bill Jones (Solar Atmospheres). April 4/11
"As of today (Friday, April 1, 2:00 p.m. local time), Bodycote Japan is operating under normal conditions
and we can account for all employees and their immediate families. Our location in Nagoya is about 500
kilometers (300 miles) from the nuclear power plant in Fukushima. The initial earthquake on March 11th
and aftershocks in the following days were felt here in Nagoya. Recently, there have been no more
aftershocks in our region; however, aftershocks continue in Tokyo and the area northeast of Tokyo."
“My apologies for the delay with my reply as I am in the process of making my way back to the US from
Japan. The full effect from the accident at the Fukishima Daiichi nuclear power station won't be
determined until they get the situation under control. They are far from there yet. Just the other day we
learned of the presence of plutonium in the soil near the plant and more radioactive water leaking into the
ocean. It seems every day they make some progress only to move two or three steps backwards as they
learn more of the damage. It is frustrating as I feel for them. The cooling systems are still not operational
and they have contamination throughout these facilities making it difficult for the operators to spend much
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time repairing the damage. Four of the six reactors will have to be scrapped. The full assessment of the
damage will not be known for awhile. The loss of electric power from these nuclear stations is a problem
for the customers these reactors serve, although I haven't heard as much about this recently. I think the
voluntary reduction in power by consumers is helping. However, it appears to have affected our
competition in that area. But we aren't sure. The latest talk revolves around the potential for
contaminated food and water. They did find trace amounts of radioactive material in the water supply in
Tokyo last week, but nothing more. I think this is the greater concern right now. My agent was monitoring
from where our food was coming, but it is often so hard to determine. Particularly if you are eating a lot at
restaurants. Away from the affected area where I was life goes on pretty much as usual, however during
the first week I know our agents were watching for airborne contamination making its way down to Kobe.
However none made it this far down as we are some 350 miles from Fukushima. I am told that the
population is a little wary of everything that is being told them by their government. They feel the
government might be holding back so as not to create general panic. This is particularly a concern for
such large population centers as Tokyo where you have a lot of people. Panic there would not be good.
But all in all I feel safe here in Japan and out of harms way. The Japanese are extremely efficient and
competent people. So I do trust them to a large extent even though some of their people may be
skeptical. I think that is the feeling of the foreigners too who are familiar with Japan. I would gladly stay
but my tour of duty is up for this trip. Nonetheless, there is great opportunity in Japan. It is a great
country and I plan to return in the future.” From a personal friend on a tour of duty for his American
company. WRJ
"United Process Controls (www.group-upc.com) completed a turnkey project for Baldor Electric to
upgrade furnace controls and automate heat treat operations at the company’s Greenville, SC plant. After
many years of satisfactory service, MMI legacy controller-based systems of tempering and carburizing
furnaces used for heat treating gearbox components had become obsolete. Reliability and downtime were
becoming a serious concern, and the old control systems had limitations in meeting the company's new
automation strategy and traceability requirements. To optimize and centralize control, UPC scrapped the
old control consoles and replaced them with compact, state-of-the-art control systems based on the
Protherm 600 programmable controllers for monitoring and controlling all furnace process parameters.
The scope of the control upgrade also included PLCs, motor controls for fans, conveyors, oil and agitators,
VRT controls, supervisory flame pilots, SCR heater controllers, and Waukee's AccuBlendor™ endothermic
generator systems with turndown control for just-in-time delivery of mixed gases. All controllers and
control systems are interfaced with the Protherm 9800 production management software, which performs
data acquisition, data analysis, alarms and recipe management, monitoring, and much more. The
Protherm 9800 also allows live, real-time remote viewing and control of furnace control systems, and it
incorporates modules for laboratory documentation and process design. The 'Quality Control Lab'
documentation module lets operators review and assess laboratory and testing information. The Diffusion
module provides two-part functionality. First, it takes the complexities out of the creation, modeling and
optimization of carburizing processes; and second, it can execute and control a carburizing treatment in a
fully automatic self-correcting mode.
ABOUT UNITED PROCESS CONTROLS United Process Controls is an alliance of four companies all with a
strong presence in heat treating and combustion, whose aim is to provide prime control solutions through
their worldwide sales and services network with easy-to-access local support. United Process Controls
includes Furnace Control, Marathon Monitors, Process-Electronic and Waukee Engineering." April 1/11
M & M Technologies Conference/India. On March 8th to the 10th, The Pune , India Chapter of ASM
held a Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Conference with 129 papers presented. The presenters
from the morning session on Day 2 of the Surface Modifications & Coatings Section are pictured with the
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moderators of the session. Top Photo; The keynote address was delivered by Madhu Chaterjee, Bodycote
(3rd from right). The author’s presentations were delivered by Damian Bratcher, Super Systems Inc. (2nd
from left), Dr. Valentin Nemkov, Fluxtrol Inc. (3rd from left) and Dr. JN Balaraju, National (Indian)
Aerospace Laboratories (2nd from right). In addition to the presentations, the vendor exhibition included
companies such as ALD, Hightemp & Fluidtherm . During the conference Steve Plumb, Dr Gowri
and Pratap Ghorpade jointly submitted a paper titled “Surface Properties Enhancement by the Nitrotec
Process. Steve Plumb of TTI Group in the UK did the presentation. Nitrotec is a worldwide patented
Surface Engineering Process for the treatment of steels and cast irons carried out in the temperature
range of 550 - 7400C using a gaseous nitrogen bearing atmosphere. From experience I can say that this
process has been quite successful around the world. April 1/11
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wide X 11' deep. Gas fired 1750F. Prewired freestanding control panel. Two upgraded digital temperature
controllers. Dialatrol overtemp. Complete switch gear including all necessary pushbuttons switches and
indicating lights. Fibre lined with 2 zones of control. Over and under fired by 8 North American 4422-5-511 burners. One vertical rising hydraulically operated door. Hydraulic winch system moves car in and out.
8 hydraulic cylinders affect the car seal. 4 hydraulic cylinders for door seal. Includes 1 heavy duty car with
8 wheels. Complete combustion controls & safeties including flame safety, spark ignition, purge system
and door and car limit switches. Very good condition. Asking $55,000 USD.
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Item #B299 Hawk Carbottom Furnace. Job #4FX 71969. Gas fired, working dimensions of 15' wide X
25' long X 8' high. 480V/3 phase/60 cycle. 1650F. Free standing control panel with Honeywell digital
temperature controls, recorder, over-temp and Epic II pressure control. Allen Bradley PLC. Fibre lined with
10 top fired burners with flues at bottom. Motorized car with a capacity of approximately 90 tons. Cam
operated door closers and sand seals. Excellent condition. Asking $175,000 USD.
Item #B298 L&L Special Furnace Co. Model AQ 524-H596-1-F80-20853N, Atmosphere Furnace with
Internal Gas-Quench capability, 2000F, Work Zone: 16"W x 14"H x 26"D, 18 kW, Electrically Heated,
208V/3Ph/60Hz, Full Load Amps: 71.5 30kW, Needs no retort, Nichrome heating elements. Has cast
alloy roller rails for load movement. Pneumatic inner door and outer door. Pneumatic load pusher. Ideal
for hardening air-quench alloys such as D2. Capable of operation with Air, Nitrogen or Argon. Honeywell
controls with Allen Bradley SLC100 PLC. Drawing No. 4596-1, Serial No. J1186TS. What is unique about
this furnace is the internal gas-quench system that can be used with air, argon or nitrogen. It is ideal for
hardening air-hardened steels like D2. Price: $9,800.00 USD
Item #B297 IPSEN I/O 3000-E Batch IQ Furnace – Mfg Date 6-1990. Working dimensions of 30”
wide X 48” deep X 30” high. Gas fired, recuperated “U” tube burner assemblies. 1400F-1750F.
Atmosphere panel with Waukee flowscopes (currently Nitrogen/Methanol). Dual quench cylinders, Hot Oil
Quench, and top cool. SBS Air to Oil heat exchanger with pump system. Control panel with Honeywell
digital controllers over-temp and carbon control. Access platform with ladder. Shim Port. Excellent
condition , currently installed, complete and ready to go. This furnace will require nothing to be back in
operation. Call for pricing.
Item #B296 Complete Batch IQ Line. Manufactured by Dow (now part of AFC-Holcroft) the line has
working dimensions of 30" X 48" X 24" high. The IQ furnace has new SCR Eclipse burners on it and is a 12
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burner system. New radiant tubes were installed June of 2010. New internal door also June of 2010.
Marathon controls for temperature and atmosphere. New oxygen probe January 2011. Also included are
two tempers, one washer, double ended charge car, 2 scissor lift tables, 2 staging tables and 1 SBS air/oil
quench oil cooler with inline heater. Also included are hoods and duct work for the tempers furnaces. This
line was in operation until January of 2011 at a large captive heat treater. It is in excellent condition and
is still installed and potential buyers are able to run test parts. Consider this a "plug and play" system.
Asking $135,000 USD for everything.
Item #B295 Holcroft Slot Type Box Furnace . Working dimensions of 102”W x 16”H x 72”L .
Maximum temperature of 2200°F . Gas Fired, never used-excellent condition. Asking
$59,500.00 USD.
Item #B294 Pyrotech Services Box Furnace. Electrically heated, 480/3/60/120 kW, model
#132x30x36E-HT-M, S/N 001. Operating temperature of 2000F. Work Area : 30"W x 24"H x 132"L (11'),
external dimensions of 7' 6" wide x 15' long w/o end tables x 11' high Approx. wt. is 15,000 lbs. Controls :
Controls are located in a separate remote mounted enclosure. There are 3 zones of control. Each zone has
a Honeywell UDC 3000 digital temperature controller and a Honeywell UDC 2000 digital high limit safety.
A Honeywell UDC 2000 high limit for the exhaust fan. A Honeywell DPR 3000 multipoint 12" wide strip
chart recorder is also mounted in this enclosure. Three separate SCR enclosures are attached to the side
of the furnace and house the Control Concepts SCR power controllers. Three 50 KVA step down
transformers, 1 for each zone, reduce voltage to the heating elements. Description: Vertical lift door on
each for use as a pass through furnace. Doors have pneumatic cylinders with a foot pedal operator. There
are 48" long tables on each end. Furnace is lined with 10" thick ceramic fiber modules on the side walls,
roof and doors. The floor has hard brick piers to support the 3 rows of alloy roller rails. Rollers are spaced
on 9" centers to support the work trays, no trays are supplied with the furnace. Ribbon style heating
elements are located on each side wall and on each door for good uniform heating. A flue vent is located
in the roof. There is also a powered exhaust fan located on top of the furnace. Excellent condition-never
used. Asking $49,000 USD.
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Item #B293 Controlled Atmosphere Brazing Furnace (CAB). This item is a vacuum purge controlled
atmospheric brazing furnace system (CAB). Built in 2000 by AFC-Holcroft it was used only for lab work
and can be considered basically new. Rated for 1-3 loads/hour (154-463 pounds/hour). Maximum capacity
463 pounds/hour. Operating temperature 1060-1165F. Maximum operating temperature 1200F.
Temperature uniformity +-5C. Load capacity 60kg aluminum plus 10kg steel. Working dimensions of 600
mm wide X 600 mm high. Working height of 1000 mm. Edwards vacuum pump. Working vacuum of 0.5
mbar. Maximum vacuum 0.1 mm. Heating rate >20C/minute. Nitrogen backfill. 160KW. 415 volt, 3 phase,
50Hz. Currently removed from service, dismantled, shrink wrapped and on a skid ready for
transport. When new this was $750,000 USD, asking $275,000 USD. Further technical details available
upon request.
Item #B292 Surface Combustion Atmosphere Box Furnace. Model Super-RTB, S/N BX-38621.
Working dimensions of 30" wide X 48" deep X 30" high. Natural gas fired-1.3 million BTU/hour. 1750F.
Brick Lined Atmosphere Box Furnace complete with (4) "U" Shaped Radiant Tubes, Top Mounted Cast
Alloy Circulating Fan, Alloy Roller Rail Hearth, Front Door Flame Curtain, and Vertical Rising Pneumatic
Front Door. Control Panel complete with L&N Digital Temperature Controller, Honeywell 3000 Series
Digital High Limit, and L&N 12" Strip Chart Recorder. Overall dimensions of 9'6" Wide x 10'8" Deep x 12'6"
High. Approximate weight 16,000 pounds. Very good condition. Asking $35,000 USD.
Item #B289 Accutemp Batch Integral Quench – Model # 1QA-121236-1177. Working dimensions of
12” x 12” x 36”D; Muffle Design; Electric 230V/3 phase/60 cycle. 180KW SCR Controlled; Maximum
temperature 1900F. This furnace has a Alloy Muffle in the Heat Chamber for extremely tight carbon
control. Control panel with Super Systems 9200 (Carbon/Temper/Video Recorder), Super Systems 7SL Hi
Limit Controller, and HP2000 Heated Probe System. Comes with loader/unloader. Unit has embedded
heating elements in the floor and sidewalls. Brick lined on walls and floor with fiber in the top, both in
good condition. Spare Elements and slightly use muffle. All Maintenance Records. Asking $15,000
USD.
Item #B287 Super 30 Allcase. Early 1970's vintage this unit has working dimensions of 30" X 48" X
30", is gas fired and has "top cool" option. This furnace is basically a shell with fair brick condition. It
does have tubes which are in fair shape as well and most of the alloy (with the exception of the fan) is
also available. Asking $5,000 USD.
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Item #B286 Ipsen T-5 Batch IQ Lines (2 available). This package consists of 2 Abar Ipsen T-5 batch
IQ furnaces with working dimensions of 24" wide X 36" deep X 18" high and 1 companion temper. Batch
furnaces are gas fired with recuperated burners. One has an internal air cooling chamber between the
carburizing chamber and the oil quench. While the equipment is desperately in need of a paint job
internally they are in reasonably good condition with one having been rebricked and with a new fan.
Package price for everything is $15,000 USD. Please ask for further details.
Item #B282 AFC-Holcroft UBQ (Universal Batch Quench) 36-48-36G Batch IQ Furnace – New.
This unit is all new, ready for immediate delivery. Special pricing is being offered to a buyer who can
take immediate delivery of this equipment, in order to regain needed floorspace.
This UBQ 36-48-36G is gas heated and has these standard features:
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36” wide X 48” long X 36” high load area
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3,500# gross load
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Operating range to 1700°F, maximum 1750°F
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Gas fired, recuperated “U” tube burner assemblies
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Air cooled recirculating fan
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Atmosphere panel with Waukee flowscopes
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Shim stock port
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Automatic rear handler
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3500 gallon oil quench tank
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Propeller quench agitation w/VFD, 7.5Hp
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Air to Oil heat exchanger pump
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150°F heated quench oil, 18Kw heating
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Batchmaster II controls with HMI and AB PLC
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Air conditioned control panel
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Access platform with ladder
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Plunge cool
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Top cool chamber
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Item #B273 Surface Combustion Batch IQ Furnace. Working dimensions of 30” wide X 48” deep X
24” high. Electrically heated, 480V/3 phase/60 cycle. 1350F-1750F. Newer design with dual quench
cylinders and top cool. Free standing control panel with Eurotherm digital controllers and over-temp.
Multipro datalogging and carbon control. Good condition. Asking $50,000 USD.
Item #B262 Lindberg Electric Pit Furnace. Model 12-RP-4848-18A. Working dimensions of 48” X 48”,
electrically heated, maximum operating temperature of 1850F. 480V, 3 Phase. Honeywell UDC2000 MiniPro temperature controller. Honeywell DR 4500A Truline circular chart recorder. Equipped with an air
powered lid/cover lifting system (swing away type). Complete electrical boxes and required power units,
transformers, SCR unit, manuals and drawings. Also included are some spare parts with some refractory
repair items. Also included is some alloy fixturing. Excellent condition. Asking $49,500 USD.
Item #B249 12,000 lb Aluminum Drop Bottom Batch Furnace. Specifications Date built: 1999
Maximum Operating Temperature: 1100° F Exterior Dimensions: 12' 7" W x 22' L x 26' 6" H Work zone:
84" W x 80" L x 72" H Max Capacity: 12,000 lbs/batch Quench delay: 11-13 seconds Burners: Natural gas
@ 4,000 CFH Voltage: 460v Heat input: 4 mmBTU Recirculation Fan: 20 HP @ 25,926 CFM Equipped with:
A/B Controls / PLC; Yokogawa controllers Price: $223,000 USD.
Item #B248 12,000 lb Aluminum Quench Tank. Specifications Date Built: 2001 Maximum Operating
Temperature: 212° F Exterior Dimensions: 12' 9" W x 16' L x 10' 10" H Work zone: 84" W x 80" L x 72" H
Max Load Capacity: 12,000 lbs Max Water Capacity: 9,523 gallons Burners: Natural gas @ 2,200 CFH
Voltage: 460v Heat input: 2.2 mmBTU Blower motors: 3 HP Agitators: (4) 3 hp with 12" propellers
Equipped with: A/B Controls / PLC; Yokogawa controllers Price:$164,300 USD.
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Item #C254 Ipsen P-6 Pusher Furnaces (2 available). Available are 2 Ipsen P-6 Pusher furnaces with
oil quench mid 1980's vintage. Working dimensions of 30" X 30" X 30" with 6 trays in each of the high heat
furnaces. Endothermic atmosphere. Trays were loaded with 800 pounds/tray. Each has 3 zones of control. The
first has recuperated burners, the second recuperated burners in the first zone only. Each has updated
emperature and atmosphere controls. SSI datalogging package. Excellent condition. Currently installed but not
in operation. Asking $75,000 USD each.
Item #C253 NASS AUSTEMPER FURNACE LINE. Installed in June 2007 at Tinnerman Palnut in New
Jersey by National Applied Scientific Systems (NASS). This company is affiliated with Wire Mesh Products
Co., the leading furnace mesh belt maker in the country.
• Yohogowa Computer Control System for zones 1 & 2 Temperature Control and High Limit Control,
Atmosphere, Salt Temperature, High Limit Quench, Heated Rinse & Variable Belt Speed Control for
Furnace and Salt Belt. The system allows for remote monitoring.
• Hercules 1,000 lbs Capacity Parts Dumper into Syntron Automatic Feed System w/ Weight Control and
Livonia Portable 19” Wide Magnetic Feed Conveyor.
• Metro Loader - Includes a hydraulic tote dumper, parts hopper, two vibratory trays with load cells. This
unit is controlled by a computer and has proven to be an exceptionally flexible and accurate parts loader.
It can be installed so that one tray can be shuttled aside in order to hand load the furnace.
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• Hardening Furnace - Furnace hot zone is 144 inches from inner wall to drum center and is capable of
producing 1000 to 1200 lbs/hour of light gauge stampings running at a belt speed of 14 “/min. and a
loading density of 12 lbs/SF. The 48 inch wide belt is of fine closed weave design in order to prevent part
mixing. The full range of furnace belt adjustment is 10-20”/min. The furnace opening at the preheat has
been closed down to about 2” because the original part loading was 1” at Tinnerman. The overall height
can be easily increased to 6” for commercial use.
The 14’ overall heated length is heated by 9 sealed radiant “U” tubes w/direct spark ignition and all tubes
have recuperators. The temperature operating range is 1475-1725˚F. Maximum temperature is 1900˚F.
There are two zones with Fanuc PLC2 Honeywell Temperature Controllers, (2) Honeywell Oven
Temperature Controllers, Yokogawa Computer Monitoring System w/Satellite Monitoring Capability. Roof
Mounted Axial Flow Recirculating Fan, and Super Systems Oxygen Sensor and Control Box for carbon
control.
Atmosphere: The furnace is currently set up for endothermic atmosphere. We can provide a conversion to
nitrogen methanol if required. Methane additions are provided and an ammonia flowscope can be provided
and desirable if one wants to be able to carbo-nitride or carbo-austemper parts.
• Austemper Tank- Capacity 4,500 gallons/72,180 lbs of salt with a maximum temperature limit of 800˚F.
Dimensions 15’6” L x 9’6” W x 5’7” H. Quench Conveyor 48” W mesh belt & Drive Package on Discharge
End, Quench Pump 10 HP, gas-fired by two 750,000 BTU/hr with 3-HP Combustion Blower.
• (2) Rinse tanks - with 42” Wide mesh belts- 1160 gal tanks, 8’10” L x 5’5” W x 3’6” D & (1) 1560 gal
tank 10’4” x 5’9” W x 3’6”D.
• Holding Tank- 5,800 gal. capacity/93,000lbs salt/light insulation and removable & reinforced top,
500,000 BTU per hour gas-fired immersion tube with stand-alone controls and gas safety train.
Salt- There is some salt available.
Pricing: The entire line is priced to sell at $100,000 USD. Salt to be sold separately.
Item #C252 Surface Combustion Cast Link Belt Line. Working dimensions of 36" wide, with 6" over
belt and 25' of heating (hardening furnace). 3 zones of control, Recirculating fans in zones 2 & 3. Gas
fired, Eclipse recuperated burners. Automatic Walmil loading system, rotary washer, quench and mesh
belt temper. Mesh belt temper is electrically heated, capable of 1500F and is 27' long, 12" of clearance
over belt, Model E15TR54. Nitrogen/Methanol, panel is included. Barber Colman digital controls. Overall in
good condition. Asking $195,000 USD.
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Item #C251 Pacific Scientific (now Selas) Gas Fired Pusher Carburizing Furnace. Size: 24"wide x
36"long x 24"high. Capacity: 1000 lb loads. Model: Pacific/Selas PKM 75-2. Maximum temp: 1900°F
Electrics: 480v 3 phase. Controls: Honeywell 2000 digital overtemperature control. Partlow quench
temperature control. General: Air operated vertical lift front door, intermediate door and exit door. Gas
fired radiant tube, skid rail pusher, trays available. Two chamber hot zone. Includes quench cooler.
Located in South Carolina. Furnace is connected, is in operating conditions and can be cycled. Trays and
hoods available.Two trays in the high heat. Asking Price: $35,000 USD
Item #C250 Safed High Temperature Mesh Belt Furnace. Model 11 BD 30/21–Atmosphere air
hardening unit Built in 1992 for Camillus Cutlery. Used for hardening SS blades and some annealing.
Heating 460v 3ph 60 hz , fla 56 amps– 3 zones; approx. 6 ft total; electric heat, belt width 10 ½ inches;
11’ muffled cooling zone. All muffles and belts in good condition. Furnace is in excellent condition with
spare parts including 18 ft section of unused belt, over 30 new heating elements and other items. Total
furnace length is 34 ft. Max temperature aprox. 2100 F. Asking $15,000 USD.
Item #C249 Ipsen T-22 Pusher Line. Includes hardening furnace, charge car, washer and temper.
Hardener has 2 zones, working dimensions of 36" X 48" X 24" high. Set up to run carburizing,
carbonitriding and neutral hardening. Gas fired. 4 trays in the hardening furnace. 1725F operating
temperature. Temper is capable of 1200F. Installed but not in operation. Complete and in excellent
condition. Please call for pricing.
Item #C248 Holcroft 2 Row Pusher. Tray size of 42" X 18" X 28" high, capacity of each tray is 1,000
pounds. Hardening furnace has 27 U-tubes, recuperated burners and is capable of 1750F. 35 trays in
hardener. 3 zones of control, each has an SSI oxygen probe. Endo addition. New brick and alloy is also
very new. Post wash/post rinse. Temper is 1 zone and holds 33 trays. Operating temperature of 1280F.
Line is installed and in operation, overall in excellent condition. Please call for pricing.
Item #C247 Surface Combustion Roller Hearth Furnace. Tray size 60" X 60" X 36" high, 5,000
pound capacity/tray. Hardening furnace has a heated length of 110' and holds 13 trays. Gas fired, Utubes, 22 upper and 27 lower, capable of 1750F. Burners are recuperated. Brick lined. Alloy is in good
shape, some brand new. Approximately 25 million BTU's. 5 zones of control. Each has a water cooled 6
blade, pitched fan and an SSI oxygen probe. Eurotherm controls with SSI "Super Data". Waukee
electronic flowmeters. Endo addition with trim air and natural gas for each zone. Post wash with a spray
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rinse-two separate units. Temper has 3 zones of control and holds 11 trays. Capable of 1250F. Integrated
blow down for cooling after temper. Soluble oil dip tank. This line is installed, in operation and is in
excellent condition. Please call for pricing.
Item #C246 BTU High Temperature Atmosphere Pusher Furnace. This 1997 high temperature
pusher furnace was designed for sintering moly-manganese at an operating temperature of 1425C in a
reducing atmosphere. Maximum operating temperature 1550C. 3 zones of control. Working dimensions of
8" wide with 12" clearance above the belt. Total heated length 36", hearth height about the floor 42".
Furnace atmosphere DA, Nitrogen and Hydrogen. Cooling section consists of 18" insulated and a 36" water
cooled section. Return conveyor running parallel to the furnace is also included. Overall furnace length is
21' 6". Electrically heated with Molybdenum ribbon style elements. Cooling section consists of a SS muffle.
System is complete and installed. Minor repairs to the controller are necessary. Please call or E-mail for
more details. Asking price $99,000 USD.
Item #C245 AGF Rotary retort furnace line. : Ser# 59183. 11ft 10” Long x 30” dia. hardening
retort. Nat. Gas fired, 15 direct fired burners, North American. 2000F max oper. Temp. DC VF Drive.
Honeywell controls and paper chart recorder. Full control panel with contactors. Ran on Endo, Natural
gas and Nitrogen atmosphere. 1980s vintage. Shut down in Oct. 07. It has a 1 yr old retort and trunion
assys., HW material, new chains and sprockets and combustion blower, over $200,000 invested in it in
06. Rotary feeder with timers on the charge end. Tube and shell heat exchanger. All 480V 3 phase.
Includes quench tank and conveyor. Seco Warwick quench control panel for temp. and agitation. Spray
washer by MetalWash. CEC, draw furnace. 20ft long x 6ft wide, 10ft high. Electrically heated with 4
controlled heater banks. Omega controls. Retort has a DC VF Drive. One circulating fan. Furnace is +-2F,
max of approx. 600F. 480 V 3 phase. Screw type discharge conveyor. Currently installed but not in use.
Asking $20,000 USD.
Item #C243 AFC PIFCO Mesh Belt Furnace Line. Built in 1998. Gas fired with a heated length of 26'
feet. 4 zones of control, chart throat opening 5' 4 1/2", 18 burners. Operating temperature of 16501700F. Currently installed and in operation. Included is the loading system, mesh belt atmosphere
controlled hardening furnace, mesh belt tempering furnace, quench tank, rotary drum washer and all
instrumentation and controls. Complete line rebuilt within the past 2 years. Excellent condition. Can be
seen in operation at any time. Asking $299,000 USD. Please call for more details and additional photos.
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Item #C242 CI Hayes Humpback Brazing Furnace. Working dimensions of 24" wide X 8" high X 12'
(high heat). High heat has 3 zones of control with 12 elements. Maximum operating temperature of
2100F. Overall length 60'. Controls are Honeywell DPR units. Overall the line is in very good shape
although the elements in the first zone need to be replaced. All drawings and manuals are available.
Currently installed but not in use. Asking $75,000 USD. Available immediately.
Item #C237 Can Eng Mesh Belt Furnace Line. Model 661503404. Late model complete heat treat
system. Maximum operating temperature of 1750F. Work area of 4” high X 36” wide belt X 144” heated
length. Gas fired 797,600 BTU’s/hour. Hardening furnace has a new tight weave mesh belt and new alloy
skid hearth. Brick lined with fibre roof. Heated by SER’s and U style radiant tubes. Two zones of control.
Metro Scale computerized loading system and pre-wash. Quench system with SBS cooler. Wash/700F
temper with 20’ of heating. Includes load baskets, spare parts, drawings and manuals. 4 free standing
enclosed control panels with PLC’s. Digital read out solid state controllers. Good condition. Asking
$125,000 USD.
Item #C235 AFC Austempering Line. Model # MBA-30-96, S/N 60866-71. Work area approximately
30” wide X 117” (heated section) X approximately 3-4” over belt. Rated for 500-600 pounds/hour.
Maximum temperature 1700F. Electrically heated 480/3ph/60cycle. Line includes Eriez magnetic conveyor
loader, Hi-Vi vibratory feed and Metro Scale weighing and loading system, AFC furnace and salt quench,
AFC wash system, air cool station, exit conveyor and in line Weber cryo unit. Furnace has re-circulating
fan. Barber Colman temperature controller, over temp and circular chart recorder, Barber Colman salt
level controller and Marathon over-view carbon control system. Footprint (overall system) 36’ wide X 50’
long (approximate). Overall system appears to be in good condition. Approximately 10 years old. Asking
$125,000 USD
Item #C234 Hayes High Temperature Pusher Furnace. Model MY-040890-90PH. 4” height over
hearth, 8” wide tray width. Recommended tray size 8” X 8” X 7/8”. 90” preheat section, 1100C, 42 KW, 6
control zones, Nichrome elements. 90” high heat, 1500C, 72 KW, 6 control zones, Moly elements. Power;
117 KW, 460/3/60. 198” cooling section in 5 zones. Automated doors at each end of furnace with nitrogen
atmosphere, flushing. Dissociated ammonia/nitrogen blending atmosphere with nitrogen purge. Multiple
inlets for even atmosphere flow and flushing. Overtemperature protection control for both preheat and
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high heat. Allen Bradley SLC-500 Logic Control. Screw drive, dual speed, anti-jam detection. Articulated
return conveyor. Hearth level 44”. Overall space requirement 125” wide X 545” long X 72” high (without
burn-of stacks). Very nice condition, asking $80,000 USD.
Item #C219 ABBOTT MODEL 6ZSCR-18-432HH6-VC-2150. 18" wide belt, 4"+ opening over the belt,
432" heating chamber (silicon carbide muffles), six zones, 36" long vari-cool with 162" of additional
cooling including two curtain boxes. 2150 deg.F. max temp., piped for dissociated ammonia atmosphere
and nitrogen purge, 335 kw @ 480/3/60,Honeywell UMO 800 controller/programmer, OAD: 84" w x 90" h
x 720" l. Currently used for annealing knife blades but with a little effort a metallic muffle in the front half
of the heating chamber could be added for debinding and sintering of PM parts. Asking price: $160,000
USD OBO
Item #C212 Holcroft Mesh Belt Annealing Furnace. Nitrogen Atmosphere, 1650°F. Electrically
heated. 72” wide belt, 9” high over belt, 24’ heated section. 8’ cooling section. Consider this in good
overall condition. Asking $175,000 USD.
Item #C211 Holcroft Austempering Lines (3 available). This is a cast link belt furnace, electrically
heated with an operating temperature of 1750F. Belt width is 48” X 21’ long (heated length). Automatic
shaker pan loading system. Salt quench tank with discharge conveyor. Wash tank with conveyor. Rinse
tank w/conveyor. Parts dryer with conveyor. Height over belt 7-3/4".Asking price $110,000 USD loaded
on to a truck.
Item #C210 CM High Temperature Pusher Furnace. Model # 488-120-3Z-480V-3PH-A. Tray size 8” X
12” X 5/8” alumina. Preheat is 90” long with 3 zones of control, 1100C operating temperature, 66KW.
High heat is 120” long with 3 zones of control, operating temperature is 1800C, 135KW. Height over
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hearth is 7”. Automatic doors at both ends and atmosphere flushing and burn-off stacks. Atmosphere is
Hydrogen with a Nitrogen purge. There are two cooling sections with a total length of 120”. Screw drive
pusher and load return conveyor system. Overall dimensions are 87” high X 132” wide X 57’ long. The
furnace was tested for operation at 1800C but only used for 2 years at 1200C. Asking price is $200,000
USD or best offer. **New price**
Item #C203 2100°F Belt Atmosphere Furnace. Lindberg™ 20" Wide x 12" High Belt Atmosphere
Furnace, Electric (Globar elements), 2100°F (may be 2150°F) Max. Temperature, 10ft Heating with 30ft
Cooling, Set up for Exothermic (combustible gas) atmosphere, Good for a variety of heat treating
applications, but Ideal for Brazing or Annealing applications. Atmosphere Burn-off, Guillotine End Doors,
SCR Control, Complete rebuild included but was not limited to: new brick, new cooling muffles, new
elements, new belt, etc. Does not require a muffle, so lower long-term maintenance costs. Contact us for
full details. Reconditioned, and ready for quick shipment. Price: $75,000 USD Location: Midwestern
U.S
Item #C194 AFC Mesh Belt Austemper Line.
Operating life of equipment was 1979-2005. Equipment was in full production until plant shutdown. The
equipment was refurbished in 2002 by Great Lakes Company (located in the Detroit area). Rework on the
austenitizing furnace consisted of all new Yokogawa temperature control instruments with paperless
temperature and carbon control recording, all new recuperated radiant tube burners, re-work of cold belt
return and water sealing under the furnace. Original AFC hand drawings are available. Original AFC
operating instructions are available.
Technical Details
Austenitizing Furnace
• Production capability is 900 pounds per hour based on belt loading of 10#/ft2 and time in the furnace of
26 minutes.
• Furnace belt 36” wide x 16’-8” effective length. Roller hearth design with variable speed.
• Three (3) zones of temperature control with one (1) zone of automatic carbon control.
• Paperless recording of temperature and carbon.
• Burner input of 2,500,000 Btu/hour with 5 HP combustion air blower.
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• Capacity of 85,000 pounds of salt. Insulated tank with a maximum temperature of 750°F.
• Quench conveyor is 42” wide with variable speed control.
• Quench curtain pump is 2 HP. Salt agitation pump is 18” diameter propeller with 7½ HP motor.
• Gas fired heating system is 1,000,000 Btu/hour with 3 HP combustion air blower.
• Individual temperature controls and separate gas safety train.
Holding Tank
• Capacity of 85,000 pounds of salt. Non-insulated tank.
• Gas-fired heating system, 1,000,000 Btu/hour.
• Temperature controls, combustion air blower and gas safety train shared with the austemper tank
through a selector switch.
Wash Tank and Rinse Tanks
• Capacities 1200 gallons of water.
• Mesh belt conveyors 42” wide with fixed speeds.
Asking Price: $200,000 USD.
Item #C178 Pacific Scientific Rotary Retort Furnace.
Endothermic Atmosphere Rotary Retort Furnace, Throughput ~300 lb/hr, Owner has gone through the
equipment thoroughly in preparation for start-up. But minor rewiring remains for furnace to be ready to
operate. Pacific Northwest Location. Asking Price: $55,000 USD.
Item #C167 Shaker Hearth Hardening Line.
400 lb/hr Sunbeam Shaker ("Shuffle Hearth") Hardening Furnace Line, Includes Automatic Part Loader,
Electric Shaker Furnace, 1800°F, 112 kW, Quench Tank with Dragout Belt, Rotary Parts Washer and
1000°F Continuous Belt Temper Furnace, 50 kW. Overall Line Length, if in straight line is approx. 61 ft.
Overall Height is approx. 8ft-6in., Max. Overall Width is approx. 7ft-3in. with piping. Still under power for
demonstration. Extra spare shaker hearth and spare belt for temper. Price: $50,000 USD whole line.
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Aluminum Age Oven
Aluminum Drop Bottom
Batch Furnace
Aluminum Quench Tank
Beavermatic Tempering
Oven
Depatch Oven
Despatch 500F Walk In
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Despatch V-34 Standard
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Park Forced Air Draw Furnace
Pit Temper Furnaces
Pit Furnace
Precision Quincy Oven
Surface Combustion Temper
Surface Combustion Temper
Furnace
Surface Combustion Continuous
Draw
Surface Combustion Mesh Belt
Item #T230 Surface Combustion Temper Furnace. Working dimensions of 36”W x 30”H x
48”L . Model: HFC-36-54, Serial Number: BX-38208-1A. 1400°F, gas fired. Asking $29,500.00 USD.
Item #T229 Dow Temper Furnace. Working dimensions of 30”W x 30”H x 48”L . Gas fired, operating
temperature of 1250°F . Asking $15,500.00 USD.
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Item #T228 Surface Combustion Temper. Working dimensions of 36”W x 30”H x 48”L. Gas fired.
Model HFC-36-54, Serial Number BX-38208-1B. 1400F operating temperature. Excellent condition.
Currently in indoor storage. Asking $29,500.00 USD.
Item #T227 Pit Furnace. This is a square furnace with working dimensions of 48" square X 72" deep.
Operating temperature of 1500F, temperature uniformity of +-15F. Electrically heated, SCR's with half
new elements and spares. Recirculating fan in the bottom rear blowing across the base and up. Clam shell
lid. Control panel included but new temperature controllers are required. Currently installed and in
operation. Please call for pricing.
Item #T226 AFC Temper. Working dimensions of 36" X 72" X 36". Gas fired, Type: SDB-6612-14-G ,
S/N: 60071-2 , Max Temp: 1400F , Type of fuel: Nat Gas , Press: 1-15 PSIG , Input: 550000 BTU .
Voltage: 480/60/3 . Good overall condition, asking $30,000.00 USD.
Item #T223 Park Forced Air Draw Furnace. Gas fired. This unit will handle a 30" X 48" X 30" basket.
Currently installed and in operation-available shortly. S/N #992. Rated for 1,000,030 BTU/hr. Honeywell
controls and circular chart recorder. Asking $8,000 USD.
Item #T221 Grieve Batch Recirculating Oven. Work zone of 48" X 48" X 48". Electric 208/3/60,
15Kw, 20 amps. Operating temperature of 350F. Model #CBV350E8. Partlow 1400 single set point control,
digital display. 10" circular chart temperature recorder. Shut down timer. SCR power controller. Fused
disconnect switch. Double swing open doors. 4" insulation. Includes 2 nickel plated wire shelves (100
pounds loading each). Internal circulation, 1200 CFM fan. 1 hp. fan motor. Oven uniformity +-4F. Includes
operating manual. Manufactured in 2006, oven was hooked up and tested but never run for production.
New $24,198.00., asking $11,500 USD.
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Item #T208 Despatch Oven. Working dimensions of 27” wide X 24” high X 36” long. Electrically heated,
480V, 3 phase/60cycle/38Kw/40 Amps. Good condition, excellent door sealing system. Attached control
panel with Barber-Colman controller, overtemp and ATC timer. Asking $9,500.00 USD.
Item #T192 Precision Quincey Oven. Recirculating electrically heated floor loading style oven. Working
dimensions of 36” X 36” X 36”. Two swing out doors on the front of the oven permit easy access to the
heating chamber. A top mounted chamber houses fan and electric heating elements. The oven is equipped
with a powered exhaust. 350F. Built in 1999-2 available. Asking $3,950 USD each
Item #T187 12,000 lb Aluminum Drop Bottom Batch Furnace. Specifications Date built: 1999
Maximum Operating Temperature: 1100° F Exterior Dimensions: 12' 7" W x 22' L x 26' 6" H Work zone:
84" W x 80" L x 72" H Max Capacity: 12,000 lbs/batch Quench delay: 11-13 seconds Burners: Natural gas
@ 4,000 CFH Voltage: 460v Heat input: 4 mmBTU Recirculation Fan: 20 HP @ 25,926 CFM Equipped with:
A/B Controls / PLC; Yokogawa controllers Price: $223,000 USD.
Item #T186 12,000 lb Aluminum Quench Tank. Specifications Date Built: 2001 Maximum Operating
Temperature: 212° F Exterior Dimensions: 12' 9" W x 16' L x 10' 10" H Work zone: 84" W x 80" L x 72" H
Max Load Capacity: 12,000 lbs Max Water Capacity: 9,523 gallons Burners: Natural gas @ 2,200 CFH
Voltage: 460v Heat input: 2.2 mmBTU Blower motors: 3 HP Agitators: (4) 3 hp with 12" propellers
Equipped with: A/B Controls / PLC; Yokogawa controllers Price:$164,300 USD.
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Item #T184 Surface Combustion Mesh Belt Draw Furnace. Gas fired. 4 zones of temperature
control, 54” wide mesh belt with 30’ of heating. 1200 degree operating temp. Surface model MCB4X30,
S/N BC40162-1. Complete and in good condition. Asking $39,000 USD.
Item #T183 Surface Combustion Continuous Draw. 2 zones of temperature control. 46” wide mesh
belt, 28’ of heating. Direct fired, 1300°F maximum operating temperature. Complete and in good
condition. Asking Price:$39,000 USD.
Item #T179 Despatch 500F Walk-in Oven.
Despatch Walk-In Oven, 500ºF Max. , Work Zone: 66”W x 72”H x 108”L,
Model: PSC 3-31H, Ser. # 132697, 68 kW Heating, Heating Amps: 81.8
Total Motor Amps: 14.2, 480Volt/3Phase/60Hz,
Overall Size: 104"W (includes panel) x 11'6"H x 9'8"L, Electrically Heated Walk-In Oven with Double Doors
On Both Ends, This ovens is solvent rated and has a powered exhauster mounted on top. Top mounted
heater box with recirculating fan distributes air
horizontally through the oven. Controls: Mounted in an enclosure attached to the side of the oven includes
a Honeywell UDC digital temperature cont- roller, Honeywell UDC digital high limit and Honeywell digital
DR 4200 round chart recorder. All necessary pushbuttons, motor starters, relays, contactors etc. are also
contained in the same enclosure. A fused disconnect is mounted above the panel. Price: $16,500 USD
Location: Northwestern U.S.
Item #T178 Pit Temper Furnaces (2 available). Built by Lindberg in 1987. Model #12-RO-60144-14.
Serial numbers serial 25913 , 25915. Working dimensions of 60" diameter x 144" deep. The furnaces are
fiber lined and electrically heated. Maximum rated temperature is 1400F. The recurculating fan in each is
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in the bottom and the lid is mechanically lifted and then moved to the side with an electric motor.
Excellent condition. Asking $45,000 USD each.
Item #T159 Despatch V-34 Standard 500’F MOT batch oven.
E&G. 36”W x 36”D x 36”H inside dims. 3 adjustable shelves, indicating controller, high limit, motorized
exhaust. Refurbished, 90 day warranty. Asking Price: $4150 USD F.O.B.
Generators
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Ammonia Cracker Dissociator
Endo Generator, 3000 CFH
CanEng 3600 CFH Endo
Generator
GE Exothermic Generator
SunbeamExo Generator
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Surface 5400 CFH Endo Generator
Surface 5000 Endo Generator
Surface 3600 Endo Generator
Item #G161 Can Eng 3600 CFH Endo Generator. Single retort unit manufactured in 1995. Air cooling
and atmosphere control. 480 v, 3ph, nat gas heat 375,000 btu. Honeywell controllers for temp and
carbon. Good condition. Asking $21,900 USD. FOB - East Syracuse, NY.
Item #G160 Surface 3600 Endo Generator. 1980's vintage this unit has air cooling, atmosphere
control, brand new tubes and new catalyst. All in all this is a beauty and can be installed immediately with
no work. Asking $29,000 USD.
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Item #G159 Sunbeam Exo Generator. 4000 DFW Exo-gas generator. Outside dimensions of 5’ wide x
8’ high x 12’ long . Natural gas fired. S/N# F-178-82 . 240 volt, 3ph 60hz , controls 110 volt. Comes
with Baltimore air coil cooling unit. Complete, was operating until it was recently shut down. Asking
$10,000 USD or best offer.
Item #G151 Endo Generator, 3000 CFH. Manufactured by the JL Becker Company in 1995 this is a gas
fired endo generator with air cooling. Brick Lined complete with (2) Retorts, Eclipse Burner System,
Eclipse Blower, Waukee Pump, Waukee Mixer, Waukee Flowmeters, and Selas Firecheck. Control Panel
complete with Honeywell 3000 Series Digital Temperature Controller, Honeywell Digital High Limit,
Honeywell 5000 Series Digital Carbon Controller, and PCI Flame Safety. Overall dimensions 106" Wide x
114" Deep x 116" High. Approximate weight 14,000 pounds. Excellent condition. Asking $34,500 USD.
Item #G147 GE Exothermic Generator (Low Ratio). 1500 CFH Capacity. Model 9328312-G2. Outside
dimensions of 36” wide X 84” high X 96” long. Gas fired 480 volts/3 phase/60 cycle. Newer updated
Honeywell digital controls for temperature, water and alarms. Good condition. Newer Waukee flowmeters,
Selas burners and fire check valve. Asking Price: $12,500 USD.
Item #G145 Surface Combustion 5400 CFH Endothermic Atmosphere Generators (4 available)
These are gas fired, 3 tube units each rated for 5,400 CFH. All units are identical and were built in 1980.
Air cooling. Well maintained and fully operational at time of de-installation. All equipment stored in heated
facility. Asking $25,000 USD each.
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Item #G142 Ammonia Dissociator. Lindberg HYAM Ammonia Dissociator. Type 16-RO-1000-HYAM.
While we don’t have a great deal of information about this unit it was in working order when it was
removed from service, the lid insulation, breakers and gauges were replaced and overall it is in good
condition. Asking price $5,000 USD.
Item #G136 Surface Combustion 5000 CFH Endo generator.
This generator appears to be in excellent condition. Gas fueled. Barber-Coleman strip with digital
recording instrumentation and over-ride controls. Max. temp: 1950°F. Approx. outside dimension: 8'5"W x
10'1"H x 8'11"L. Air cooled. Asking Price: $29,500 USD.
Induction
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Tocco Induction Power Supply
Tocco Induction Scanner
Item #I145 Tocco Induction Scanner. Capable of handling a part up to 1,000 pounds, 120” long, with
up to a 12” part diameter. Drive System: 3 HP DC motor driving (2) 1-1/2'' ball screws. An encoder is
attached to the drive train to monitor position of carriage. Part Rotation is done by a DC variable speed
motor. Control is by an Allen Bradley PLC 2/05 programmable controller. Model 200/225-10T-01H.
480volt, 3 phase. 225 Kw, 9.6 KHz. Currently installed but not in use. Please ask for more details. Asking
$35,000 USD.
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Item #I144 Lepel Induction Power Supply. 450 KHz, 40 Kw. External dimensions are 6’ X 6’. 480Volt.
Complete ready to go. Please ask for more details. Asking $6,500 USD.
Item #I143 Tocco Induction Power Supply with Heat Station. 150kW/3-10 kHz Induction Generator
and Heat Station with multiple output taps. Complete and in good condition. Asking $18,000 USD.
**New Price**
Miscellaneous
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AFC Dunk Washer
AFC Dunk Washer
Cast Alloy Fixturing
Closed Loop Cooling
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Complete Combustion
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Cryogenic Unit
Cryogenic Unit (3)
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Induction Coils
Instron/Wilson Hardness Tester
Instron-Satec Impact Tester
MEI Cryogenic Processor
Surface Combustion Dunk/Spray
Washer
Surface Combustion Dunk/Spray
Washer
Surface Combustion Double Ended
Charge Car
ThermCraft Batch Washer
Vacuum & Diffusion Pumps
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Heat Treating Line
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Webber Industrial Dry Freezers (2)
Fluidized Bed Aluminum
Heat Treating Line
Item #M300 Induction Coils. We have available 17 integral quench inductors for sale. Sizes range
from 5 inch to 13.750 inches OD and 1.500 inches to 9.500 ID. All are in good operating condition.
Replacement value is approximately $45,000 USD, vendor is asking $14,000 USD for all.
Item #M299 Surface Combustion Dunk/Spray Washer. Serial #: BC 43406, Working dimensions of
30" wide X 48" deep X 30” High. Temperature: 160°F Min; 180°F Max Digital Temperature controller.
Cleanout and overflow skimmer. Electrically heated. 480volt, 3ph 60Hz 64KW Excellent condition. Asking
$12,500.00 USD.
Item #M298 Surface Combustion Dunk/Spray Washer Serial #: BC 42511-0 Working dimensions of
30" wide X 48" deep X 30” High. Temperature: 160°F Min; 180°F Max Digital Temperature controller.
Cleanout and overflow skimmer. Electrically heated. 480volt, 3ph 60Hz 64KW Excellent condition. Asking
$12,500.00 USD.
Item #M297 Surface Combustion Double Ended Charge Car. Model DEDP 30-48. 480volt, 3ph 60Hz
Currently in operation and in Good Condition. Asking $12,500 USD.
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Item #M296 Vacuum & Diffusion Pumps. Available are a Stokes vacuum pump, model 412-11 with 6”
inlet. Can be retrofitted to 4” inlet. Rebuilt and operational prior to sitting idle for one year. Turns freely.
Without motor, belt and belt guard. Asking $3700.00 USD. Varian diffusion pump, model HS32, 32” ,
serial# W009. Rebuilt and operational prior to sitting idle. Bottom plate is pulled in ½”. Asking $5200.00
USD. Edwards Diffusion pump. Make an offer. (Last 2 Pictures) . All available immediately.
Item #M293 AFC Dunk Washer. Working dimensions of 36" X 48" X 36". Good overall condition. No
immersion heater. Complete, installed and ready to go. Asking $12,500.00 USD.
Item #M292 AFC Dunk Washer. Working dimensions of 36" X 48" X 36". No immersion heater. In good
condition although it is missing the control panel. Currently in indoor heated storage. Asking $7,500.00
USD.
Item #M291 Instron-Satec Impact Tester.
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Instron-Satec Model SI-1C3
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Dual range, 125 & 300 ft-lbf.
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Can be configured for Charpy or Izod
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Scale in ft-lbf. and Joules
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met NIST verification requirement per ASTM E23 when in-use
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Bought new in 2002
Asking price $CDN 9,000
Item #M290 Sunbeam Dunk/Spray Washer. Model WB-10, S/N F-14-70-K. Working dimensions of
24" X 30" wide X 48" deep. Parlow indicating controller. Cleanout and overflow skimmer. Currently steam
heated, can easily be converted to electric or gas. Excellent condition. Asking $7,500.00 USD.
Item #M289 MEI Cryogenic Processor. Model #01 CP –56F
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Internal Capacity 56 Cubic Feet
Internal Dimensions 43”H x 43”W x 53”L
Load Capacity: 12,000 lbs
Interior 10-gauge stainless steel
Exterior 16-guage steel (painted)
Loading Type Front Loading
Controller Watlow – F4 Series
Probe Type Thermocouple Type “T”
Fan Type 1 Circulating fan & motor
Circulation Style Convection Style
Electrical Controls:120V (single phase – 30 amps)
Fans & Heater: 208V (three phase – 60 amps)
Type Control Panel Side Mounted
Door Type Front Loading
Method of Entry Hoist/Fork Lift
Temp Range -320F to +500F + 3F variance
Excellent condition. Asking $54,000 USD.
Item #M286 Cryogenic Unit. 2 chamber, each chamber 43" wide X 48" high, X 48" deep. Manufactured
by MEI, Model #98-128. Capable of -310F to + 500F. 128 cubic foot capacity. Load capacity 10,000
pounds. Interior 10 gauge SS. Exterior 16 gauge SS (painted. Front Loading. Watlow-F4 Series controller.
2 circulating fans and motors. Convection heating. Controls 120V, fan & heater 208 V. Pneumatic 100PSI.
Control Panel side mounted. Front loading with two doors, swing from front. Temperature range -310F to
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+500F (+-3F). Exteriors dimensions of 119" long X 90" high (plus 24" for motors), depth 79" (plus 6 1/2"
for electrical boxes. Completely refurbished. Asking $64,500 USD.
Item #M285 Cryogenic Units (3 Available). Manufactured by MEI, Model #98-128. Capable of -310F
to + 500F. 128 cubic foot capacity. Internal dimensions of 96" long X 48" deep X 48" high. Load capacity
10,000 pounds. Interior 10 gauge SS. Exterior 16 gauge SS (painted. Front Loading. Watlow-F4 Series
controller. 2 circulating fans and motors. Convection heating. Controls 120V, fan & heater 208 V.
Pneumatic 100PSI. Control Panel side mounted. Front loading with two doors, swing from front.
Temperature range -310F to +500F (+-3F). Exteriors dimensions of 119" long X 90" high (plus 24" for
motors), depth 79" (plus 6 1/2" for electrical boxes. One of these units has been completely refurbished,
all are in excellent condition. Asking $59,000 USD each.
Item #M284 Fluidized Bed Aluminum Heat Treating Line (18 feet long). This was a continuous line
that was used for demonstration by a company that sold fluidized bed equipment. The line consists of a
solution treating furnace (50” W x 20” D x 18 feet L), a water quench (72” W x 72”L x 24” D), a sand
quench (50” W x 36” L x 24” D) and an aging furnace (50” W x 20” D x 18 feet L). Both furnaces are
lined with 330 stainless, use gas fired P-tubes and have a maximum temperature of about 1100 degrees
F. Allen Bradley controls. The line has been disassembled and the walking beam has been discarded.
The line was rarely used and is in new condition. Asking $150,000 USD or best offer.
Item #M283 Fluidized Bed Aluminum Heat Treating Line (24” x 32” x 32”). This was a manual
line that was used for demonstration by a company that sold fluidized bed equipment. The line has a
working area of 24” W x 32” L x 24” D. It consists of a solution treating furnace, a water quench, a sand
quench and an aging furnace. Both furnaces are lined with 330 stainless, are electrically heated and have
a maximum temperature of about 1100 degrees F. Allen Bradley controls. The line has been
disassembled and is in new condition. Asking $80,000 USD or best offer.
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Item #M282 Cast Alloy Fixturing. We have available 3 sets of cast fixturing suitable for an AFC 36" X
48" X 30" high batch IQ furnace. Each set consists of base tray and cast sides. This fixturing is used but as
you can see in the photos still has a lot of life left. Best offer over scrap value.
Item #M279 Complete Combustion System. This system includes 24 3" Kinemax Burners, Part #
Maxon 34-36613, gas solenoids, burner shut off valves, pilot line solenoids and many other items too
numerous to list. Burners are rated for 1 1/2 million BTU's each. All components were bought new in 1997
for a large carbottom furnace and used for 2 years only. All parts are complete, in excellent shape and in
storage. Please ask for a complete list. New these components were well over $100,000 USD, vendor is
asking $25,000 USD for everything. Also available are 8 Infra Red Sensing/Control Temperature
sensors.
Item #M277 ThermCraft Batch Washer – Model# 515GAL –Built in 1999. Working dimensions of 24”x
36” x 24”; Electric Heat: 480/3Ph/60Hz 36KW; Max Temp: 200°F This unit is good Operating condition.
Asking $7,500 USD.
Item #M258 Webber Industrial Dry Freezers (2 available). Type WF-60-125. 480V/3
phase/60cycles. Minimum temperature -125F with digital controls. Good condition, vertical operating door.
Serial numbers 10898 and 12801. Asking $30,000 USD each.
Item #M257 Closed Loop Cooling System. This is a complete closed loop cooling system using glycol
mixed with DI water at a 50 % ratio. Rated at 260 Tonnes. Was running several 10 bar vacuum furnaces
and well as miscellaneous equipment. Comes with a Baltimore fluid cooler Model # F 1463-P. 40 HP 1800/
900 RPM fan motors575 V. Also comes with a control panel complete with motor starters for circulation
pumps for process side as well. Process pumps are a GOULDS 550V index # 16ADIN6EO. SIZE 3 X 4 X –
8. MODEL # 3656M. Impeller size 6.38. Two pumps on glycol reservoir are made by Peerless, Type 840.
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System is in good shape. Removed from service, vendor will load on to a truck at no extra cost. Asking
$10,000 USD.
Salt
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AFC Austempering Line
AFC Mesh Belt Austemper
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Holcroft Austempering
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NASS Austemper Furnace Line
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Salt Pots (2)
Item #S013 Salt Pots (2 available). This is nothing fancy but it is free for the price of removal. (2)
Salt Pots complete with transformers (fire brick pot built in structural steel frame) – 20” x 20” x 60”
capacity. One pot re-built and used less than three months . (2) Structural steel frames for salt pot – 55”
x 55” x 90”. (2) Salt quench pots.
Item #S012 NASS AUSTEMPER FURNACE LINE. Installed in June 2007 at Tinnerman Palnut in New
Jersey by National Applied Scientific Systems (NASS). This company is affiliated with Wire Mesh Products
Co., the leading furnace mesh belt maker in the country.
• Yohogowa Computer Control System for zones 1 & 2 Temperature Control and High Limit Control,
Atmosphere, Salt Temperature, High Limit Quench, Heated Rinse & Variable Belt Speed Control for
Furnace and Salt Belt. The system allows for remote monitoring.
• Hercules 1,000 lbs Capacity Parts Dumper into Syntron Automatic Feed System w/ Weight Control and
Livonia Portable 19” Wide Magnetic Feed Conveyor.
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• Metro Loader - Includes a hydraulic tote dumper, parts hopper, two vibratory trays with load cells. This
unit is controlled by a computer and has proven to be an exceptionally flexible and accurate parts loader.
It can be installed so that one tray can be shuttled aside in order to hand load the furnace.
• Hardening Furnace - Furnace hot zone is 144 inches from inner wall to drum center and is capable of
producing 1000 to 1200 lbs/hour of light gauge stampings running at a belt speed of 14 “/min. and a
loading density of 12 lbs/SF. The 48 inch wide belt is of fine closed weave design in order to prevent part
mixing. The full range of furnace belt adjustment is 10-20”/min. The furnace opening at the preheat has
been closed down to about 2” because the original part loading was 1” at Tinnerman. The overall height
can be easily increased to 6” for commercial use.
The 14’ overall heated length is heated by 9 sealed radiant “U” tubes w/direct spark ignition and all tubes
have recuperators. The temperature operating range is 1475-1725˚F. Maximum temperature is 1900˚F.
There are two zones with Fanuc PLC2 Honeywell Temperature Controllers, (2) Honeywell Oven
Temperature Controllers, Yokogawa Computer Monitoring System w/Satellite Monitoring Capability. Roof
Mounted Axial Flow Recirculating Fan, and Super Systems Oxygen Sensor and Control Box for carbon
control.
Atmosphere: The furnace is currently set up for endothermic atmosphere. We can provide a conversion to
nitrogen methanol if required. Methane additions are provided and an ammonia flowscope can be provided
and desirable if one wants to be able to carbo-nitride or carbo-austemper parts.
• Austemper Tank- Capacity 4,500 gallons/72,180 lbs of salt with a maximum temperature limit of 800˚F.
Dimensions 15’6” L x 9’6” W x 5’7” H. Quench Conveyor 48” W mesh belt & Drive Package on Discharge
End, Quench Pump 10 HP, gas-fired by two 750,000 BTU/hr with 3-HP Combustion Blower.
• (2) Rinse tanks - with 42” Wide mesh belts- 1160 gal tanks, 8’10” L x 5’5” W x 3’6” D & (1) 1560 gal
tank 10’4” x 5’9” W x 3’6”D.
• Holding Tank- 5,800 gal. capacity/93,000lbs salt/light insulation and removable & reinforced top,
500,000 BTU per hour gas-fired immersion tube with stand-alone controls and gas safety train.
Salt- There is some salt available.
Pricing: The entire line is priced to sell at $100,000 USD. Salt to be sold separately.
Item #S011 AFC Austempering Line.Model # MBA-30-96, S/N 60866-71. Work area approximately
30” wide X 117” (heated section) X approximately 3-4” over belt. Rated for 500-600 pounds/hour.
Maximum temperature 1700F. Electrically heated 480/3ph/60cycle. Line includes Eriez magnetic conveyor
loader, Hi-Vi vibratory feed and Metro Scale weighing and loading system, AFC furnace and salt quench,
AFC wash system, air cool station, exit conveyor and in line Weber cryo unit. Furnace has re-circulating
fan. Barber Colman temperature controller, over temp and circular chart recorder, Barber Colman salt
level controller and Marathon over-view carbon control system. Footprint (overall system) 36’ wide X 50’
long (approximate). Overall system appears to be in good condition. Approximately 10 years old. Asking
$125,000 USD
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Item #S010AFC Mesh Belt Austemper Line.Operating life of equipment was 1979-2005. Equipment
was in full production until plant shutdown. The equipment was refurbished in 2002 by Great Lakes
Company (located in the Detroit area). Rework on the austenitizing furnace consisted of all new Yokogawa
temperature control instruments with paperless temperature and carbon control recording, all new
recuperated radiant tube burners, re-work of cold belt return and water sealing under the furnace. Original
AFC hand drawings are available. Original AFC operating instructions are available.
Technical Details Austenitizing Furnace• Production capability is 900 pounds per hour based on belt
loading of 10#/ft2 and time in the furnace of 26 minutes. • Furnace belt 36” wide x 16’-8” effective
length. Roller hearth design with variable speed. • Three (3) zones of temperature control with one (1)
zone of automatic carbon control. • Paperless recording of temperature and carbon. • Burner input of
2,500,000 Btu/hour with 5 HP combustion air blower.
Austemper Tank • Capacity of 85,000 pounds of salt. Insulated tank with a maximum temperature of
750°F. • Quench conveyor is 42” wide with variable speed control. • Quench curtain pump is 2 HP. Salt
agitation pump is 18” diameter propeller with 7½ HP motor. • Gas fired heating system is 1,000,000
Btu/hour with 3 HP combustion air blower. • Individual temperature controls and separate gas safety
train.
Holding Tank • Capacity of 85,000 pounds of salt. Non-insulated tank. • Gas-fired heating system,
1,000,000 Btu/hour. • Temperature controls, combustion air blower and gas safety train shared with the
austemper tank through a selector switch.
Wash Tank and Rinse Tanks • Capacities 1200 gallons of water. • Mesh belt conveyors 42” wide with fixed
speeds.
Asking Price: $200,000 USD.
Item #S005Holcroft Austempering Lines (3 available). This is a cast link belt furnace, electrically
heated with an operating temperature of 1750F. Belt width is 48” X 21’ long (heated length). Automatic
shaker pan loading system. Salt quench tank with discharge conveyor. Wash tank with conveyor. Rinse
tank w/conveyor. Parts dryer with conveyor. Height over belt 7-3/4". Asking price $110,000 USD
loaded on to a truck.
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Abar 3000ºF, All-Metal HR20x24 Vacuum Furnace
Abar Ipsen Vacuum Furnace
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GM Vacuum Furnace
Ipsen Bottom Loading Vacuum
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Item #VF210 Ipsen Bottom Loading Vacuum Furnace. Built in 1988 by Ipsen this furnace has
working dimensions of 72" diameter X 96" high. Moly hot zone in excellent condition. Operating
temperature of 2400F. 5 bar quenching nitrogen/argon/hydrogen. 2 35" Varian diffusion pumps with 2
Stokes 412 roughing pumps with 615 blowers. 480volt, 1155 amps. Comes with a closed loop cooling
system. Unit is currently in indoor heated storage and is complete. Vessel was ultrasonically tested before
removal and the shell is in excellent condition as is the whole furnace. Will require 26' of height for
installation. Asking $490,000 USD.
Item #VF207 Lindgren (ALD-Holcroft) 6 Bar Vacuum Furnace. S/N 286-96, built in 1996. Working
dimensions of 24" Wide x 36" Deep x 24" High. Maximum temperature 2450F. Electric - 230/3/60 - 130
KW Moly Lined Horizontal Loading Vacuum Furnace complete with 150 H.P. Cooling Fan for 6-Bar Cooling,
Leybold Diffusion Pump (16"), Dual Ruvac Mechanical Pumps, Graphite Round Bar Heaters, "Autoclave"
Style Swing-Out Front Door, (2) Alloy Work Baskets, (1) Alloy Work Tray, and 160 KVA Transformer.
Furnace is designed for 1300 lb. loads and vacuum levels to 10-5. Free-Standing Control Panel complete
with Yokogawa Digital Annunciator, Programmable Temperature Controllers, Vacuum Gauges, and
Yokogawa 12" Strip Chart Recorder. Excellent condition. Overall dimensions of 8'6'' Wide x 12' Long x 9'6"
High (shipping dimensions). Approximate weight 16,000 pounds.Asking $195,000 USD.
Item #VF202 Abar HR66 Vacuum Furnace. Working dimensions of 48" x 60" x 48", 2400F, Diff pump,
graphite and moly hot zone and loader. While the hot zone does need some work overall this furnace is in
great shape. Asking $130,000 USD.
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Item #VF201 Abar Vacuum Brazing Furnace. Model HR-20 X 24. Working dimensions of 18” wide X
24” deep X 10” high (alternate load size with changed hearth height is 23"W x 24"D x 6"H). Good for
brazing and annealing applications, but not for hardening applications as it does not have a gas cooling
blower. Oversized Varian Diffusion pump, Stokes 212 pumping system with Stokes 306-401 blower. Max
operating temperature of 2400F. Max load weight of 400 pounds @ 2400F with a standard hearth. Metal
hot zone in reasonable condition. Asking $39,000 USD.
Item #VF195 GM Vacuum Furnace. Working dimensions of 48” x 72” x 48”. Water cooled chamber and
autoclave style locking front door. Hot zone has molybdenum heating elements with graphite liner and
hearth. Power to the heating elements is through VRT’s. Hot zone is in good condition. Furnace does not
have a vacuum pumping system or gas cooling but other than that is complete and ready to go. Full
manuals and drawings are available. Operating temperature of 2400F. New in 1988. Asking $79,500 USD.
Item #VF189 Brew Model 917 High Temperature Brazing and Heat Treating Vacuum Furnace.
2400F Moly Internal and Heating elements. Excellent for super clean brazing and heat treating
applications. Work Zone 15” X 16” X 24” deep. ( 200lbs).Recently rebuilt internal, excellent shape. Was
being used for Low temp aerospace heat treating prior to relocation . Forced gas cooling using heat
exchanger and 2500CFM blower. Electrical 480V, 3-phase, 60Hz, 85kVA . Vacuum Pumps: Stokes/Penwalt
212, Varian 16” Diffusion Pump. Honeywell DCP700 Controller, Honeywell Chart Recorder. Currently not
installed, but ready for easy loading or inspection. Full specification available. Located in Long Beach, CA.
This furnace is in great condition. Price $70,000 USD.
Item #VF180 Abar 3000ºF, All-Metal HR-20x24 Vacuum Furnace. 1981 Abar Model HR-20x24, 1Bar Vacuum Furnace, Ser# BM-721, 3000°F Rating (3050°F Short Term), All-metal 6-Layer Moly Hot Zone
in good condition, Work Zone: 18"W x 10"H x 24"D, (wider alternate work zone by raising hearth level),
Moly Elements and Moly Hearth, 400 lb Load Rating at 2400°F, Honeywell DCP-551 upgraded temperature
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control (out of panel in photo), Fredericks cold cathode/TC combination vacuum instrument, Honeywell
recorder(s), W-WRh control thermocouples, Single Owner since new, Design Uniformity: +/- 10°F,
Diffusion pumped with refrigerated cryotrap, Varian/NRC Model HS-16 diffusion pump, Stokes Model
212MB mechanical pump and blower pump package, vane-style holding pump, No gas-cooling fan or heat
exchanger (can be added at additional cost), 80 kVA VRT, heating power with SCR rectifier, NEMA-12
Control Panel, Abar LT-20 Loader, Utilities: 115 kVA total power, 220V/3ph/60Hz input power, Water
requirement is 15 GPM at 60-90 PSI, 90°F min., 80-120 PSI Air, 25 SCF Nitrogen per cycle for backfill,
OEM Parts & Service still fully supported by Ipsen (Rockford, IL) 800-727-7625, ext 253 Price: $98,500
USD
Item #VF176 6-Bar Vacuum Heat Treating Furnace. 1996 Vac Aero, 6-Bar Pressure Quench Vacuum
Heat Treating Furnace, Model # VAH 4848 MP6, Work Zone: 36"W x 48"D x 30"H, (Alternate load size by
raising hearth: 48"W x 48"L x 22"H), 2400°F, 200 HP 10,000 CFM External Cooling Blower,
480V/3Phase/60Hz, 285kVA, Hunterdon VRT Power Supply, 2,000,000 BTU/hr Gas Cool Heat Exchanger,
Load Rating: 2500 lb. at 2400°F, Vacuum Pumps: Stokes 412-11 with Roots 615RGS Blower, Honeywell
S9000 Temperature Controller with UDC3000 Hi-Limit, Edwards AGC Vacuum Control. Includes water
cooling system and Loader. Please note that an ultrasonic test was recently performed on this furnace and
is available. Price: $275,000 USD Location: Midwestern U.S.
Item #VF144 CI Hayes Vacuum Oil Quench/Carburizing Furnace. Honeywell control system.
Working dimensions are 48" deep, 30" wide by 32" high. Equipped with an automated vacuum carburizing
system which was retrofitted approximately 5 years ago by CI Hayes. The voltage is 480V 60 Hz. The
maximum hot zone temperature is 2200deg F. It uses a 412/615 pumping system which is capable of 8.0
X 10-3 Torr. The furnace includes two load carts and a batch gas fired wash system. Furnace is in good
operating condition and is currently in heated indoor storage. S/N 16099 Asking $49,000 CDN
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Special Processing Supervisor
Brazing Engineers, Heat Treat Sales Professionals, General Managers, and Maintenance
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Sales Manager
Plant Manager
Experienced Heat Treater
Plant Metallurgist
Tool and Die Straightner
Heat Treating Business Manager
Consultant Auditors
Regional Sales Manager
Field Service Technician
Maintenance Person
Item #O187 Metallurgist. AKEBONO BRAKE CORPORATION CLARKSVILLE, TN. Interested candidates
should submit resume’ to: [email protected] Job Title: Metallurgist Reports to: Quality Lab
Supervisor
Metallurgist; In general, this position has responsibility to: Evaluate physical and microscopic properties of
metallic ferrous materials both prior to and following heat treatment processes, including but not limited
to stress relieving and carburization processes. Samples will be evaluated in accordance with industry,
customer, and internal specifications.
Operate and maintain laboratory equipment normally used in metallographic analysis such as abrasive
saws, sample mounting presses, grinder / polishers, microhardness, brinell (BHN) and metallograph.
Train production associates in the operation and maintenance of metallographic equipment so that sample
preparation may continue during off shifts.
Provide technical assistance to manufacturing in developing and optimizing heat treat related processes.
Act as a technical resource for both quality and manufacturing by providing quality expertise to assist with
development of APQP documentation. This includes, but is not limited to: control plans, PFMEAs, flow
charts, and inspection plans associated with heat treat and carburization processes.
Provide input to manufacturing regarding the impact of metallurgical properties on other processes such
as machining and painting.
Provide analysis of suspect nonconforming supplied components and customer returns. Prepare technical
reports to document the effect of metallurgical properties of the material on the reported failure mode of
the product.
Support quality and manufacturing in achieving quality and policy deployment goals.
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Actively participate and assist manufacturing to ensure quality requirements are in compliance in daily
operations.
Interpret engineering standards and blueprints.
Disposition suspect or discrepant material.
Ensure compliance to industry standards, ISO/TS16949:2009, AIAG CQI-9 heat treat system guidelines
and customer specific requirements.
Prepare quality metrics on a monthly basis. Identify and implement countermeasures for metrics that are
negative to goal.
Supervision of hourly quality associates may be required.
Successful candidates must possess: Bachelor’s degree required. Metallurgy degree or engineering degree
with concentration in materials science. Previous experience performing metallographic analysis in an
industrial, preferably automotive, environment. Basic knowledge of traditional quality tools such as SPC,
capability analysis, MSA, and common gauging practices. Advanced problem solving skills, proficient in 8D
methodology. Excellent organizational skills and ability to coordinate multiple tasks simultaneously. Strong
project management and planning abilities. Demonstrated discipline and consistency regarding adherence
to established standards, policies, and procedures. Good written and oral communication skills to
independently prepare and deliver presentations. Ability to interface with all levels of the organization. PC
application skills including Microsoft Office and MiniTab. Proficiency in blueprint interpretation, including
geometric dimensions and tolerances. Willingness to travel to customer and supplier locations to support
PPAP or investigation and containment of quality concerns. Willingness to travel internationally as
necessary.
Item #O186
Bodycote is in search of Brazing Engineers for the following facilities:
Fremont, Calif., and Ipswich, Mass. The Brazing Engineer will be responsible for the development of
brazing systems and technology to ensure that services provided meet the contractual requirements
established by customers and procedures. He/she is also responsible for supporting the sales function with
braze related issues and quotations. Requirements: Engineering degree (or equivalent experience) in
metallurgical, materials, or welding engineering; A minimum of 3 years experience in thermal processing
with emphasis on brazing processes (furnace, induction, torch, etc.) required. For consideration, please
submit resume to: [email protected] (Fremont position) [email protected] (Ipswich
position).
Item #O185 Aerospace Manufacturer is seeking a Special Processing Supervisor, for the Tempe,
Arizona location. The candidate must have an intermediate understanding of all processes within the
department.
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Trouble shoot problems regarding employees
Hold tight tolerances
Read and interpret micrometers and calipers
Supervisory Responsibility:
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Experience supervising a staff of heat treating, brazing, and welding personnel
Have heat treating On-The-Job Training experience including aluminum, copper/nickel furnace
brazing experience
Experience with GTAW, torch and/or induction brazing is a definite plus
Experience with NADCAP audits and checklists is a plus
Supervisors not meeting these requirements and/or unrelated field need not apply
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Please send resume to [email protected] or fax 480-968-0300
Item #O184 Looking for Brazing Engineers, Heat Treat Sales Professionals, General Managers,
and Maintenance Technicians, and for multiple opportunities all over the US. Please email me in
confidence Tom Nash: [email protected] or 619-828-1040.
Item #O183 American Heat Treating, Inc. Sales Manager
SUMMARY Identify, Develop, and Maintain future and current customers utilizing the AHT sales process.
Work with all departments within AHT to provide outstanding customer service and customer
development.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Manage Quote process to ensure timely and accurate
quotes to customers. • Follow up on quotes awarded or not, and price performance to planned hourly
rates. • Identify and develop new geographic market areas. • Identify new potential processes for market
expansion. • Maintain and track measurable. • Manage company customer list. • Provide customer
support regarding problem resolution. • Attend company internal/external training. • Maintain a clean and
organized work area. • Responsible for the company’s sales process • Responsible for marketing programs
such as Websites, Brochures, Internet sales. • Manage competitive information. • Communicate with
customer through phone, letters, emails, and personal visits. • Manage customer survey programs.
QUALIFICATIONS, EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE • College graduate with degree in Business or
Engineering and at least 3 years experience in manufacturing sales, OR 5 to 10 years experience in
commercial heat treating, with 3 to 5 years in management.
OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES • Possess good communications skills, as well as good management
and interpersonal skills. • Blue print reading • Knowledge of CQI-9 heat treat standard. • Problem analysis
and resolution. • Knowledge of Word, Excel, and Outlook. • Advanced verbal and writing skills. •
Knowledge of Marketing and use of the internet in Sales.
TO APPLY • Please send resume and salary history/expectations to [email protected]
• For more information on American Heat Treating, please visit www.AmericanHeatTreating.com Certified
ISO 9001/2008
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Item #0182 Plant Manager Wanted. Well established Southeast Michigan Heat Treater is searching for
a Plant Manager.
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Knowledge of metals and metal forming.
Extensive knowledge of heat treating, operations management and metallurgy.
Practical understanding of Automotive quality standards.
Bachelor’s Degree preferred, or equivalent in experience.
Excellent interpersonal skills, with a passion for customer service.
Reply to [email protected]
Item #0181 Experienced Heat Treater Wanted. Allied Heat Treat Limited, located in Mississauga,
Ontario is seeking an experienced Heat Treater. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of processing
the popular grades of steel in vacuum furnaces and able to work with a minimum of supervision. This
would be a full time position. Please forward resumes to; [email protected]
Item #O180
Cincinnati Steel Treating located in Cincinnati, OH has an immediate opening
for a Plant Metallurgist. At a minimum the individual should hold a BS in either Metallurgical
Engineering or Material Science. The successful candidate must be a self starter who can work
independently. They must be dependable with an old fashion work ethic and can multi-task in order to
meet production needs.
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Extensive knowledge of atmosphere furnaces.
Knowledge of shop floor and metallographic inspection techniques.
Knowledge of heat treat processes from design to successful implementation.
Must be organized and able to communicate proficiently both written and oral.
Must be familiar with ISO, TS and CQI-9 Standards.
Supervisory experience is a plus.
We are an equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V. We offer a competitive salary, along with a good benefits
package including medical, dental, vision, insurances and a 401K program.
Interested candidates should send their resume with salary history to [email protected].
Item #O179 East-Lind Heat Treat, Inc is looking for an experienced Tool & Die Straightener. This is a
full-time position that includes good pay & benefits. Candidates should have extensive technical
knowledge of various types of steels and straightening methods. East-Lind Heat Treat is located in
Madison Heights, Michigan and is a ISO 2001 registered company. For additional company information,
please visit: www.eastlind.com For consideration, please submit your resume to: [email protected]
Item #O178 HEAT TREATING BUSINESS MANAGER Well-established NW PA firm seeks high-caliber,
experienced P/L manager for commercial heat treating business. Must have strong related technical
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background. Must have strong customer interaction success record. Plenty of corporate staff and systems
support available. Firm has excellent equipment, facilities, and reputation. Growth oriented. Not a position
for rookies or mild credentials. Generous compensation. Relocation assistance. Long term sought, but
Interim-only interests considered as well. Please send confidential resume\' to:
[email protected] attn: mht manager now Modern Industries, Inc. www.modernind.com
Item #O177
“Nadcap and You…Achieving Excellence Together.” Build Your Career with a
Global Industry Leader. Performance Review Institute is seeking Aerospace experienced Consultant
Auditors for the Nadcap Heat Treating program.
As a Nadcap auditor, you will perform heat treating audits, complete audit reports, and have the
opportunity to train associate auditors.
The ideal candidate will possess the following general background:
• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field
• Understanding of General & Aerospace quality systems (ISO, AS/EN/JISQ9100)
• Familiarity with General Consensus specifications and Aerospace Standards
• Computer skills in word processing, spreadsheets, email and internet
• Desire to travel
• Multi-lingual a plus
• Strong interpersonal skills
The following are specific criteria for Heat Treating:
• Five (5) years "hands-on" experience (preferably in the aerospace industry) with the following
processes: Aluminum Heat Treating, Titanium Heat Treating, Heat Resisting Treating, Heat Resisting
Alloys, Brazing Alloys
• Understanding of AMS2750 or Pyrometry specification
As an innovative industry leader, we are proud to offer our
auditors:
• Flexible Schedules
• Competitive Daily Rate
• Paid Travel & Living Expenses
• Paid Annual Training
• No Need to Relocate
See why Nadcap has been attracting & retaining some of the best professionals in the industry! Apply online today, via our application website, www.eAuditStaff.com.
Determine your area of auditor expertise in one or more of these specific disciplines: Chemical Processing,
Coatings, Composites, Conventional Machining, Elastomer Seals, Electronics, Fluid Distribution Systems,
Heat Treating, Materials Testing, Non-Metallic Materials Testing and Manufacturing, Nondestructive
Testing, Nonconventional Machining, Sealants, Surface Enhancement and Welding.
For more information on PRI and the Nadcap program, visit our website, www.pri-network.org.
Nadcap is administered by the Performance Review Institute, an equal opportunity employer, who values
the diversity of our work force and the knowledge of our people.
Item #O172 REGIONAL SALES MANAGER GH Induction Atmospheres (GH IA) is an experienced
industrial heating system integrator working solely with induction-based technology. We design and
manufacture customized, turnkey induction heating systems for industrial brazing, welding, hardening and
general purpose heating. GH IA, as part of the worldwide GH Group headquartered in Valencia, Spain, is a
leading worldwide supplier of induction heating machines and systems for industrial heating in the
automotive, aerospace, green energy production and medical markets. Our rapid growth in these markets
requires a direct presence in the Midwest and Southeast geographical areas. Preferred Candidates will
have experience in heat treating and metal joining processes. Specific knowledge in induction processes,
quenchants, brazing, and vacuum systems preferred. Working relationships in the automotive, aerospace
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and/or medical markets desired. We offer an aggressive compensation package, 401(K) with company
match, and a comprehensive insurance/benefits package. Contact Info: For additional company
information, please visit: http://www.gh-ia.com Send or email resume in confidence to: GH Induction
Atmospheres 35 Industrial Park Circle Rochester, NY 14624 Attn: Director of Sales [email protected]
Item #O135 Heat Treating Services Unlimited, Inc. (HTSU), a Greenville, SC based
service company, is actively seeking a Field Service Technician to perform
temperature control instrument calibrations, repair/corrective maintenance services for
control systems and instrumentation at different client locations throughout the
Southeast. This field service position requires a focus on customer service and a
quality conscious work ethic. Overnight travel is required.
Our technicians calibrate, troubleshoot, install and service control instruments, as well as perform
temperature uniformity studies on industrial furnaces used for steel processing. We utilize state-of-the-art
equipment with a focus on electronic technology for our primary source of data collection, management
and communication
HTSU is a rapidly growing company with aggressive long-term goals. We employ motivated and organized
self-starters and offer opportunities for growth and advancement. With offices in Greenville, SC and
Detroit, MI we service customers throughout the central and eastern United States. A great opportunity
for an above average candidate eager to learn and grow within this dynamic industry.
Qualifications
Must enjoy working with people and solving problems
Must have good electrical and mechanical aptitude
Must have basic computer skills for communication
Have the ability to work with basic hand tools
Knowledge in the use of test equipment such as meters/calibrators
2 to 5 years experience with calibrations and temperature uniformity surveys for thermal processing
equipment
Instrumentation and furnace knowledge a must.
Benefits and Compensation
HTSU provides comprehensive benefits package with competitive wages. Our benefits include:
Medical Insurance – Healthcare
Life Insurance
Paid Vacation
Personal Days
Sick Days
Holidays
Company Provided Vehicle (if applicable)
Daily Meal Allowances
401(k) Plan
Relocation Assistance (if applicable)
Please furnish resume with current/past responsibilities and salary requirements to [email protected]
resumes kept confidential.
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Item #O133 Looking for Plant Managers, General Managers, Maintenance Technicians, and
Production Supervisors for multiple opportunities all over the US. Please email me in confidence Tom
Nash: [email protected] or 619-828-1040.
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Item #E125 Service Technician Looking for a New Position. Looking for a Job as a Service
Technician in the Pyrometry Field. I have 12 Years of Experience in Calibrations/Temperature Uniformity
Survey Testing. My Backround is I worked for Cleveland Electric Labs in Twinsburg, Ohio from 1999-2005
and most recently for Doctor Furnace Inc in Tampa Florida. Very Good with Customer Relations. Will
Travel from my Home to anywhere on the east part of the Country. Looking to work in the Ohio, Indiana,
Michigan, Pennsylvania, West Virgina and western New York. I can be Contacted at 330-806-7058
Item #E123 Graduate Metallurgical Engineer with 40 years experience in the metalworking, heat
treating and plating industries covering Aerospace, Military, Nuclear, Automotive, Mining, Construction
and Machine Tool segments is seeking contract consulting opportunities, full or part time, in either the
domestic or international marketplace. Accomplished in R&D, failure analysis, materials engineering,
thermal processing, welding, laboratory testing, heat treat equipment and facility design, process
troubleshooting, commercialization of new technology as well as technical training in metallurgy and heat
treating. Extensive experience with annealing, atmosphere carburizing, ferriticnitrocarburizing, nitriding,
vacuum hardening, induction hardening and solution treating of ferrous and non-ferrous alloys to Nadcap,
ISO, TS-16949 and CQI-9 quality standards. Immediately available! Please contact me via email at
[email protected]
Item #E112“Nadcap and You…Achieving Excellence Together.”
Build Your Career with a Global Industry Leader. Performance Review Institute is seeking Aerospace
experienced Consultant Auditors for the Heat Treating program.
As a Nadcap auditor, you will perform heat treating audits, complete audit reports, and have the
opportunity to train associate auditors.
The ideal candidate will possess the following general background: • Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field
• Understanding of Aerospace & General quality systems (ISO, AS/EN/JISQ9100) • Familiarity with Prime
contractor specifications • Computer skills in word processing, spreadsheets, email and internet • Desire
to travel • Multi-lingual a plus • Strong interpersonal skills
The following are specific criteria for Heat Treating: • Five (5) years "hands-on" experience (preferably in
the aerospace industry) with the following processes: Aluminum Heat Treating, Titanium Heat Treating,
Heat Resisting Treating, Heat Resisting Alloys, Brazing Alloys • Understanding of AMS2750 or Prime
Contractor Pyrometry specification
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As an innovative industry leader, we are proud to offer our auditors: • Flexible Schedules • Competitive
Daily Rate • Paid Travel & Living Expenses • Paid Annual Training • No Need to Relocate
See why Nadcap has been attracting & retaining some of the best professionals in the industry! Apply online today, via our application website, www.eAuditStaff.com.
For more information on PRI and the Nadcap program, visit our website, www.pri-network.org. Nadcap is
administered by the Performance Review Institute, an equal opportunity employer, who values the
diversity of our work force and the knowledge of our people.
Item #E107 Metallurgical Engineer: Fine tuned to strategic planning aimed at results and quality.
Hands-on solid over 25 years experience in Thermal Processing of Ferrous and Non-ferrous materials,
Metallographic examination and Mechanical Testing. Set up Thermal Processing equipment for Gas
Carburizing, Carbonitriding, Nitrocarburizing Hardening and Tempering of Heavy components, Induction
Hardening and Vacuum processes. Batch type, Pusher, Belt, and Pit furnaces, Vacuum and Induction
equipment. Experience in maintenance of equipment, Factory maintenance, planning of new installations.
Machine shop: Multispindle and CNC equipment. Experience in Material and Heat-Treatment specification
for Automotive and Heavy Industry components. Pioneer work done in use of Polymer quench for heavy
components for Hydroelectric, Railroad, Petrochemical and Wind energy to guarantee Mechanical
properties. International Experience accumulated in Captive and Commercial H.T plants Fluent in 4
languages, outgoing personality and ready to relocate internationally. [email protected]
In Parting,
We always enjoy comments, feedback and constructive criticism. Thanks for your feedback and don’t
hesitate to let us know your thoughts. Don’t forget to visit us daily at www.themonty.com.
Gord Montgomery,
W.G. Montgomery Limited
Phone: 905 271-0033 Fax: 905 271-9324
Email: [email protected]
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