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Wire & Cable ASIA – September/October 2010
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Furnaces
and
heat treatments
The application of heat for industrial purposes requires highly
developed judgement. The importance of this faculty in the heat
treatment of wire – thin, frangible, a handling challenge from intake to
shipment – is obvious. Even with their highly specialised knowledge
of furnaces, ovens, kilns and quench tanks, the suppliers of the
products and services reviewed here do not lay claim to judgement
beyond the very high industry average. But they cannot prevent
others from claiming it for them.
The ability to craft hardening, annealing, brazing, sintering, and
stress relief – in air and atmosphere – into customised wire heat
treating solutions is highly respected even in an industry in which
experience and discernment have always been at a premium.
Background credit: bigstockphoto.com • Jordano 2000 (Leonid Anfimo) • Machine photo credit: Linn High Therm GmbH