Saturday 30 August 08 - 15:21
 

Hot Working And Heat Treatment

    Specialist Heat Treater of High-Speed Steel Celebrates 20th Year

    Summitglow heat treatment specialists are celebrating their twentieth anniversary. The company was originally established in 1983 purely to treat high-speed steel by the salt bath method. A six bar pressure quench vacuum furnace is the latest addition to the Sheffield company's capacity. 

    Investment Induces Shorter Hardening Time

    The latest addition of a new, additional, induction hardening machine for precision engineered components, now puts Hammond Heat Treatment, which also has the largest gas nitro-carburising furnace operating in the UK, at the forefront of the subcontract induction hardening industry. 

    Strong Growth Increases Sealed Quench Furnaces

    Bowmic Ltd of Leicester are increasing heat treatment capacity with the addition of a further two Ipsen sealed quench furnace lines and an Ipsen vacuum facility. This is in response to a turnover increase of 22% in 2002, and a threefold increase since 1997. 

    Hot Development Work Produces New Low Temperature Processes

    The latest in a series of new processes developed by Huyton Heat Treatments recently received industry approval following successful trials. 'Hycore' is an innovative process for specialised components that has satisfied the requirements of three major manufacturers with different needs: 

Stevens Rowsell is a specialist precision sheet metal engineering company in East Sussex