Innovations in vacuum technology deliver an important contribution to productivity in heat treatment and furnace construction as well as in secondary metallurgy.
Vermont Custom Gage LLC selected Lucifer Furnaces to create manufacturing capability with the addition of an air recirculating oven, a salt bath pot furnace and a quench tank.
Midwest Industrial Tool Grinding Inc. has expanded its tool coating capabilities to include surface treatment options. The coating options include AlTiN (aluminum titanium nitride), TiN (titanium nitride), TiCN (titanium carbon nitride), nACo (aluminum titanium nitride and silicon nitride) and nACRo (aluminum chrome nitride and silicon nitride).
No. 979 is a 850ºF (454ºC), electrically-heated, universal style oven from Grieve, currently used for various machine shop heat treating operations at the customer's facility.
No. 945 is an electrically heated 500°F(~260 degrees C) universal oven from Grieve, currently used for various curing tasks at the customer's facility.
Approximately one year ago, William R. Jones, CEO of the Solar Group of Companies, decided to donate a small horizontal vacuum furnace for use as a teaching tool in the ASM International training facility in Materials Park, Ohio.
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.
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.