WCA November 2009

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Charter Wire adopts new annealing technology

In 2008, when Charter Wire, a division of Charter Manufacturing company, decided to move its manufacturing facility to a new location, the company called on Rad-Con Inc to replace a batch annealing capacity with 100% hydrogen annealing, the latest technology available. Full production was scheduled for August 2009, and the new furnace system was the first production unit operating in the new facility, allowing Charter to quickly take advantage of the higher quality hydrogen annealing process. During the commissioning of the equipment Charter’s project manager, Greg Volovsek, commented, “Rad-Con’s portion of the project has gone very well.” Charter, a supplier of shaped steel bar and wire products, will utilise the Rad-Con annealing system primarily for re-crystallize annealing of low-carbon drawn wire. The new system also gives Charter the capability to anneal alloy steels for many specific applications. The bell-type furnace has Rad-Con’s FlexLoad™ plenum to allow a variety of coil packages to be loaded. The system includes rapid hydrogen cooling

❍ Charter Wire will utilise RAD-CON’s latest annealing technology at its new plant

(H2SHC™) technology for atmosphere circulation, resulting in uniform finished material properties.

spray-water for product brightness, and Rad-Con’s patented AC/APEx™ atmosphere control system for the regulation of heating rates and atmosphere flows according to specific wire quality requirements. The new Rad-Con system also includes the company’s super high convection

Rad-Con Inc – USA Fax : +1 216 221 1135

Email : sales@rad-con.com Website : www.rad-con.com

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