Coating & Surface Treatment Equipment

Products • April 1, 2014

No. 954 Box Furnace

No. 954 is an electrically-heated 2000°F (~1093°C) inert atmosphere heavy-duty box furnace from Grieve, currently used for heat treating titanium at the customer's facility.

Products • April 1, 2014

Model HFL-2018-21Q Mentor Vacuum Furnace

Solar Manufacturing announces the installation of a new and compact vacuum furnace design located at its Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania heat treating affiliate company facility in Hermitage, Pa.

Products • March 1, 2014

Ultrashort Pulsed Laser Deposition Surface Coating

Finnish thin film coating specialist Picodeon Ltd. Oy has developed its ultra-short pulsed laser deposition (USPLD) surface coating technology to be able to create either porous or dense aluminium oxide coatings on heat-sensitive substrates for use in a wide range of industrial metallisation applications.

Products • March 1, 2014

Model HL7-P36 Furnace

Lucifer Furnaces was the equipment choice for University of Washington students who petitioned the Dean of Engineering for a model HL7-P36 for their Engineering Instructional Shop as a replacement for an antiquated, unreliable, smaller unit.

Videos • January 14, 2014

Crystal persuasion

A random arrangement is all well and good when it comes to avant-garde music, but the random crystal growth direction found in conventional CVD alumina cutting tool coatings can create weak areas where cracks form, shortening tool life.

Articles • January 1, 2014 • Alan Richter

Crystal persuasion

A CVD tool coating with unidirectional crystal orientation.

Products • January 1, 2014

RD7-KHE18 Bench Model Red Devil Furnace

Custom Window Systems Inc. (CWS), Ocala, Fla., a major manufacturer of high-quality window and door products, has added a Lucifer Red Devil Furnace to its toolroom.

Products • January 1, 2014

No. 907 Walk-In Oven

No. 907 is an electrically-heated inser atmospher walk-in over from Grieve, currently used for heat treating graphite tooling molds at a customer's facility.

Products • December 13, 2013

86AM-K24 Lucifer Atmosphere Furnace

Voss Manufacturing, Sanborn, N.Y., a leading manufacturer of heat transfer tooling and equipment, has expanded its facilities with the additional of an 86AM-K24 Lucifer Atmosphere Furnace.

Articles • October 1, 2013 • Alan Richter

Coat, don’t plate

A tungsten carbide-based CVD coating that's an environmentally friendly alternative to hard-chrome plating.

Products • September 13, 2013

Model 7GT-K36 Inert Atmosphere Furnace

Lucifer Furnaces Inc. has designed and manufactured a heat treating box furnace for use with inert atmosphere for stress relief of springs under nitrogen atmosphere.

Products • August 13, 2013

No. 966 Inert Atmosphere Oven

No. 966 is a 1250°F, electrically-heated, inert atmosphere oven from Grieve, currently used for stress relief of machined steel at the customer's facility.