Thursday 16 October 08 - 00:06
 

Heat Treatment

    Hotline Makes Sense of the Old Chestnut

    With increasing energy cost and pressure from a global market, more companies than ever are asking themselves when it would be better for an in-house heat treatment facility to cease to operate, and its processes be contracted out.   

    New Furnace Enhances Vacuum Processing

    TTI Group has increased its vacuum heat treatment capability with the installation of a second TAV furnace at its Cheltenham division.   

    Vacuum Facility Adds Horizontal Furnace

    As part of their continual improvement programme, Tamworth Heat Treatment Ltd has installed a new vacuum furnace to complement its existing vacuum facility of seven furnaces.   

    Thermal Deburring has Beneficial Side Effects

    Martin Bridges of the Deburring Centre Ltd, Poole, reports on observations of the thermal deburring process that appear to be beneficial in the subsequent heat treatment of metal components, particularly in aluminium and steel, or those contaminated with grease residuals. 

    Re-Commissioned Plant Returns to Austemper Market

    In response to existing customers’ requests to supply, HHT (Midlands) Ltd has announced that the austempering process is now available at its Darlaston plant.   

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