EoW March 2010

technology news

A new Rad-Con 100% hydrogen annealing furnace system has been commissioned for Charter Wire’s new facility in Menomonee Valley, Wisconsin. Charter Wire moved its manufacturing facility to a new location last year, and called on Rad-Con Inc to replace old batch annealing capacity with 100% hydrogen annealing, the latest technology available. Charter, a supplier of shaped steel bar and wire products, will utilise the Rad-Con annealing system primarily for recrystallise annealing of low-carbon drawn wire. The new system also gives Charter the capability to anneal alloy steels. Rad-Con’s FlexLoad™ plenum allows Charter to load a variety of coil packages. The system includes a rapid hydrogen cooling spray-water feature, and Rad-Con’s AC/APEx™ atmosphere control for regulation of heating rates and atmosphere flows. This system also includes Rad-Con’s super-high convection (H2SHC™) technology for superior atmosphere circulation resulting in uniform material properties with low utility costs. Bright annealing of shaped wire Friedrich a manufacturer of pointing machines and handling equipment of all types and sizes for wire, bars, rods, profiles and tubes. The company’s production programme includes roll-pointing machines, threading and pointing machines, point-milling machines, hydraulic tube- pointing-presses and scrap bundling machines. Friedrich Krollmann GmbH & Co KG – Germany Fax : +49 2352 50822 Email : info@krollmann.de Website : www.krollmann.de Wire pointing equipment Krollmann GmbH is Rad-Con Inc – USA Fax : +1 216 221 1135 Email : sales@rad-con.com Website : www.rad-con.com

Rad-Con technology has been adopted at Charter Wire, Wisconsin ▲ ▲

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EuroWire – March 2010