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4-8 April 2016

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:

info@secowarwick.com.pl

Website:

www.secowarwick.com

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:

info@aimmachines.com

Website:

www.aimmachines.com

AIM’s AFM 3D8

Synchro bender

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