Coating & Surface Treatment Equipment

Products • May 1, 2011

Vortex Rapid Finish Discs

Saint-Gobain Abrasives' Norton brand has introduced Norton Vortex Rapid Finish Non-woven Right Angle Discs for the metal fabricating industry.

Products • April 1, 2011

Model HS84 Furnace

Amarillo College, in the Texas panhandle, has installed a Lucifer Furnaces Model HS84 Dual Chamber Furnace in their Manufacturing Technologies Department.

Products • March 1, 2011

Polymer System EP37-3FLF

For demanding applications where highly flexible, impact resistant bonds are required, Master Bond developed Polymer System EP37-3FLF.

Products • March 1, 2011

Batch Oven

Lucifer Furnaces Inc. has delivered a large tempering batch oven to a leading East Coast manufacturer of precision grinding equipment.

Products • February 1, 2011

Large Box Furnace

Lucifer Furnaces Inc. has designed a large heat treating box furnace for a leading provider in the aerospace industry.

Products • January 1, 2011

Model 7000 AM

Lucifer Furnaces Inc. has supplied a leading ISO 9001 certified analytical testing facility in the Midwest with a model 7000 AM box furnace for stress relieving.

Videos • October 11, 2010

Productivity Improvements Resulting from Coating Texturing

Don Graham, manager of turning products and education services at Seco Tools Inc., Troy, Mich., discussed "Productivity Improvements Resulting from Coating Texturing" during the Fast Track Seminar series hosted at the Cutting Tool Engineering booth during IMTS 2010.

Articles • October 1, 2010

Small-Scale Thinking

Nanotechnology opens up new coating possibilities and performance.

Videos • September 11, 2010

Powdered metallurgy

Watch a video presentation from Seco Tools LLC about the tools and techniques suggested for machining powdered metallurgy. The company reports that inserts with Seco Tool's Duratomic CVD aluminum-oxide coating can work well for P/M components. The Duratomic technology promotes growth of coating crystals in certain crystallographic directions to improve coating properties.

Products • June 1, 2010

No. 887

No. 887 is a gas-fired, 1,000°F cabinet oven from The Grieve Corp., currently used for curing metal coatings onto parts.

Products • March 1, 2010

Dual-Chamber Atmosphere Muffle Ovens

Lucifer Furnaces Inc. shipped two dual-chamber atmosphere muffle ovens to a customer for the purpose of heat treating superconducting wire used in medical, pharmaceutical and industrial applications.

Videos • June 15, 2008

Drilling Ductile

Some coatings, such as TiAlN, enable dry machining when drill ductile cast iron, but coolant is desirable to help evacuate the material's small, curled chips. Flood coolant can be appropriate for holes less than 1.5 to 2 diameters deep, according to Bob Jennings, product manager for Ingersoll Cutting Tools, Rockford, Ill. Jennings noted that the toolmaker offers standard Qwik-Twist replaceable-point drills to drill up to 8 diameters deep.