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Джеймс Шрадер, региональный менеджер компании в г. Эпплтон, прокомментировал: «Наша группа
по продажам успешно работала в этом районе, и мы предвидим продолжение роста активности.
Заказчики, работающие с офисом в г. Эпплтон, находятся на севере и в центре Висконсина и Верхнем
полуострове Мичиган».
Компания Marmon/Keystone, оптовый поставщик трубной продукции уже более 100 лет, имеет в своем
перечне более 15000 размеров и марок углеродистой и нержавеющей стали, сплавов и продукции из
алюминия, а также проката. Сервисные центры компании и офисы по продаже расположены по всей
северной Америке, а центральный офис корпорации находится в г. Батлер, штат Пенсильвания.
Marmon/Keystone续签销售办事处租约
MARMON/KEYSTONE公司为其在威斯康星州阿普尔顿的销售办事处续签了3年的租约。最初在威斯康星州尼
纳成立的销售办事处于1993年迁到了阿普尔顿。
Appleton的区域经理James C Schrader Sr评价到：“我们的内部销售组织也在这个地方愉快的度过了很多
年，而且我们期望在该区域的连续增长。”Appleton 的客户分布在威斯康星州的北部和中部以及密歇根上半
岛。
有着100多年历史的管材批发商 Marmon/Keystone库存超过15,000 种尺寸和等级的碳钢、合金、不锈钢和
铝制管材和棒材。其服务中心和销售办事处遍布北美，公司总部在宾夕法尼亚州的
巴特勒,。
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Growth projected for specialist heat treatment services
DEBBIE Mellor, MD of metallurgical and laboratory service specialist Keighley Laboratories, is projecting
25% growth for the firm’s heat treatment business.
Much of this increased customer demand is being driven by its gas-fired pit furnace facility, one of only a
handful in the UK, which accommodates metal components vertically and enables processes like carburising,
case hardening, carbonitriding and tempering to be carried out with minimal distortion, in accordance with
precise customer specifications. The company has also commissioned a new jig to enable an even wider
range of components to be processed, including large rectangular blocks.
The company’s heat treatment division offers a comprehensive range of surface engineering services to UK
engineers, which also includes induction hardening, hardening and tempering, stress relieving, ferritic nitro-
carburising or Tufftriding, austempering and martempering, and normalising, with nitriding to be added once
the scheduled new building programme is complete.
Working to BS EN ISO 9001, BS EN 9100 and aerospace standard AS9100 rev B, it serves a broadening
customer base that takes in the construction and mining, engineering, petrochemical, oil and gas, aviation,
transport, defence, nuclear and energy markets, giving clients access to in-depth metallurgical experience
and expertise.
“Our expertise really focuses on our highly accurate furnace controls, which we program in-house, and the
immense knowledge and skills of our qualified staff, including our furnace operators who undergo rigorous
training and continuous skills development,” said heat treatment commercial manager Michael Emmott, who
has had hands-on experience of all processes and provides technical support in the field. “We work in close
partnership with our customers, helping them to develop new components as they introduce new products
or enter new markets, suggesting the most cost-effective heat treatments and even developing non-standard
processes for complex products.”
The precise control of all heat treatment processes is undertaken by dual-loop PLCs and measured by
thermocouples and oxygen probes, which enable temperature and atmosphere cycle times to be monitored
accurately. Endothermic gas for the heat treatment of metals is generated on-site and fed to the furnaces to
reduce the scaling and decarburisation of steel at high temperatures, and this can be enriched with natural
gas to increase the carburising potential. The exhaust gas from furnaces is measured by an infra-red ana-
lyser, which applies a corrective factor as necessary to the PLC, for accurate carbon control.
A variety of quenching media is employed by Keighley Laboratories, including fast and medium speed min-
eral oil and molten salt for processes like martempering and austempering, as well as air and fan cooling.