Our plant has two controlled-atmosphere furnace lines with endothermic gas generators, two vacuum furnaces, a sub-zero treatment unit, two shot-blast machines and a metallurgy laboratory.
The plant runs around the clock, seven days a week.
The line has a gas-fired main furnace, an electric preheating and tempering furnace, and a washer. Both the main furnace and the preheating furnace have roof-mounted circulation fans that even out the temperature and atmosphere, so the treated parts come out with more uniform properties.
In the quench tank, powerful agitators keep the oil moving during the quench so that no vapour layer stays on the parts.
This furnace has similar features to the Aichelin line, but it is electrically heated. Eurotherm and Honeywell controllers, two thermocouples and an oxygen probe control the furnace temperature and atmosphere continuously, and the furnace runs the whole heat-treatment cycle on its controllers and timers.
In our Schmetz and Abar vacuum furnaces we harden, temper and stress relieve tool steels and dies. We also solution treat and age nickel superalloys in these furnaces.
Parts are quenched with nitrogen gas at a controllable cooling rate. The Schmetz furnace can blow the cooling gas onto the load from two directions, and the quench intensity can be changed during the cycle.
Thermocouples mounted on the part itself record its surface and core temperatures throughout the cycle.
Tell our specialists the material, size and hardness your part needs, and we will recommend the right process.
Parts reception and delivery: daily, 8:00–20:00