Coating & Surface Treatment Equipment

A wet blasting system that consistently hones edges and enhances coating adhesion on cutting tools.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A CVD tool coating with unidirectional crystal orientation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.