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Electric furnace
ILES Srl presents model 1.08.3+7.62+DCB –
the electric furnace with a horizontal chamber,
together with quenching tank and NC loading
device. The main characteristic is the automatic
loading/unloading/quenching system of inter-
locking to the furnace, named DCB.
This is made of a four-axle NC loading device
that, using a personalising hooking device,
allows the operator to work in a completely
safe zone.
The operator has only some simple operations
to put the pieces in and out of the NC loading
device, taking just a few minutes for each cycle.
To program the machine the operator enters the
data by means of the operator board.
ILES Srl – Italy
Fax: +39 0373 750110
Email:
Website :
Innovation in
annealing
Celebrating over 40 years of bell-type batch annealing furnace
designs, Rad-Con, Inc engineers, manufactures, installs, and supports
high-capacity, robust systems to the wire and wire-rod industry.
Rad-Con has pioneered innovation in convection design, atmosphere
analysis and temperature control of bell annealing equipment.
Efficient performance of the system’s convection flow is critically
important to the end-quality of the annealed material. Rad-Con’s
100% hydrogen super-high convection (H2SHC)™ system utilises
the most advanced fan designs combined with a 100% hydrogen
atmosphere, resulting in greater temperature uniformity throughout
the charge, low utility costs, and clean, decarb-free product every
cycle.
Today’s control technology allows for ease of operation and
maintenance of required advanced safety systems for 100%
hydrogen, with redundant safety elements to eliminate operator error.
Rad-Con continues to change the industry with its AC/APEx™
atmosphere control system, coupling gas stream analysis with
closed-loop process control results in improved surface quality of the
charge while minimising the amount of atmosphere gas required.
Specialising in annealing systems to produce spheroidised cold
heading quality (CHQ) wire for the fastener industry, Rad-Con’s
experience also encompasses ferrous and non-ferrous applications
in the agricultural, electrical, construction, spring, industrial, and
communications industries.
Rad-Con – USA Fax: +1 440 871 5720
Email: Website :
Vacuum furnaces
For more than 60 years the name of Schmetz has been
associated with high technology in the field of vacuum
furnaces for heat treatments including hardening, annealing,
brazing and sintering of tools, drills, milling cutters, pelleting
dies, heat-exchangers, pipe fittings in special steel, magnets,
PM-materials, turbine blades and aircraft components.
Schmetz is among the leading partners for modern industrial
plants, with an established product programme and new systems
such as:
FUTUR – with convection heating for more efficient heat •
treatment
2R – gas quenching with minimised distortion and •
2-directional reversal
2x2R – gas quenching with vertical and horizontal direction •
reversal
2PLUS – quenching in a separate cooling chamber for higher •
cooling speeds
COOL PLUS – automatic hardening and tempering processes •
with a sub-zero phase
Now, with the recently developed Schmetz eSS system, it is said
to be possible to save energy costs and to reduce cycle times.
Schmetz GmbH – Germany Fax: +49 2373 686 154
Email: Website :
Electric furnace from ILES ❍ ❍
Vertical loading vacuum furnace from Schmetz ❍
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