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Heat processing technology
SECO/Warwick is a manufacturer
of heat processing furnaces and
equipment. Categories include vacuum
heat treatment; atmosphere heat
treatment; controlled atmosphere
brazing of aluminium heat exchangers;
melting, holding and thermal processing
of aluminium; and vacuum metallurgy.
The group has seven companies
located on four continents, with
customers in nearly 70 countries.
The company provides standard
or customised heat processing
equipment to companies in industries
that include automotive, aerospace,
powder metallurgy, electronics, energy
(including nuclear, wind, oil and gas,
and solar), machinery, tooling, medical,
steel, titanium, general industrial, and
aluminium and aluminium recycling.
For heat treatment of extruded and
drawn tubes of aluminium wrought
alloys, SECO/Warwick provides the
following solutions.
VertiQuench® solution heat treatment
furnaces and integrated SHT + ageing
systems: this is an optimal heat treatment
technology for aluminium alloy extruded
and drawn porthole or seamless tubes
of 2xxx, 6xxx and 7xxx alloys series in
hard tempers, providing short quenching
time (eg for vertical tower furnace: min.
7 seconds for 7 metre long extrusions),
and allowing high mechanical properties
of treated extrusions to be obtained.
The range of applications includes heat
treatment of tubes in sections as well as
aluminium alloy wires in coils.
The tailored constructions have
modular design, are easy to operate,
and can be expanded when increased
production capacity is needed. A modern
and intuitive PLC allows full visualisation
of each stage of the process, including
preheating, soaking and quenching,
and supports production planning,
maintenance operations and periodic
SAT and TUS surveying.
Solution heat treatment furnaces are
followed by artificial ageing ovens for
precipitation hardening of products,
which can be supplied in one complete
system conforming to AMS 2770E
and 2750E aerospace standards and
their tight requirements in terms of
temperature uniformity and restrictions
as to time of operations.
Annealing furnaces for aluminium
alloy tubes and wires in soft tempers:
for certain applications, tubes and wires
are used in soft tempers suitable for
bending, forming and other downstream
operations. SECO/Warwick can provide
a solution for annealing extruded and
drawn tubes as well as aluminium alloy
wires in coils.
Batch type, mass flow furnaces,
designed individually for each
application, ensure uniform and fast
preheating to soaking temperature,
and with precise temperature and
time control allow low and uniform
mechanical properties in both entire
volume and length of treated products
to be obtained. They also ensure low
energy consumption and trouble-free
handling of loads processed in the form
of straight sections or coils.
Pipe and tube annealing heat
treatment equipment: within the thermal
sector of SECO/Warwick, furnaces
for pipe annealing are part of the
company’s portfolio. The offer consists
of processes and technologies in
various industries – automotive, energy,
bearing, machine, pharmaceutical and
food. Typical applications include pre-,
mid- and end-annealing of pipes, heat
rolled, cold rolled and stretched. The
processes used are recrystallisation and
soft annealing, tempering, normalisation
and bright annealing, which are used
for elements from carbon steel, low-
alloy and high-alloy steel, stainless and
special alloy steel used, for example, in
cooling systems in nuclear energy plants.
The turnkey projects integrate
thermal processing furnaces, subsidiary
devices, transport systems and
atmosphere generating systems. The
company undertakes a full design and
technology evaluation, sets branch
standards, designs devices, installs
them and fully deploys the technological
implementation.
Three groups of devices constitute the
core of SECO/Warwick’s offering in pipes
and tubes: mesh belt and roller hearth
furnaces for carbon steel tube annealing;
mesh belt and roller hearth furnaces for
stainless steel pipe and tube annealing
and bright annealing; and custom-
designed batch and special conveyor
furnaces for pipe and tube annealing and
bright annealing.
SECO/Warwick Europe Sp zoo –
Poland
Email:
Website:
Versatile bending technology
AIM will be presenting the Synchro
bender at wire 2016, taking place
simultaneously with Tube 2016. The
patented Synchro is versatile, with fast
output and low-cost maintenance. AIM’s
hybrid forming technology provides the
user with the competiveness needed in
an ever-changing marketplace.
In addition, the AIM Synchro head has
the ability to form tube off coil to make
complex 2D and 3D profiles. Large
generating arcs and hard bends are
made easy.
The Synchro also employs three
different cutting techniques depending
on the complexity of the profile:
chamfering, external saw cut and
traditional tube cutters.
Each configuration is modular and
can be integrated in the field with
relative ease. Models are available
from 2.5 to 16mm. Standard two-year
warranty, DXF importation, animation
simulator and ease of programming
are a few of the features on the AFM
Series machines. Options include in-line
drilling, chamfering, press operations,
marking and part numbering.
AIM Inc – USA
Fax: +1 630 458 0730
Email:
Website:
AIM’s AFM 3D8
Synchro bender
Sta nd no.
7aF15
Sta nd no.
11A21