EoW May 2008

Furnaces & heat treatment

Pioneering innovations from Rad-Con Celebrating more than 40 years of innovative bell-type batch annealing furnace designs, Rad-Con Inc, USA, engineers, manufactures, installs, and supports high-capacity, robust systems to the wire and wire-rod industry. Rad-Con established itself as the tech- nology leader by pioneering innovations 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 uni- formity 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 development of the AC/APEx™ atmosphere control system. Coupling gas stream analysis with closed-loop process

Efficient performance from Rad-Con ▲ ▲

the agricultural, electrical, construction, spring, industrial, and communications industries.

control improves the surface quality of the charge while minimising the amount of atmosphere gas required. Specialising in annealing systems that produce spheroidised cold heading quality (CHQ) wire for the fastener industry, the company’s experience also encompasses ferrous and non-ferrous applications in

Rad-Con Inc – USA Fax : +1 440 871 2948 Email : info@rad-con.com Website : www.rad-con.com

Skako Comessa’s important role

Skako Comessa furnace feeding systems are an important part of many industrial processes.

As an example, for the automatic and weight guaranteed: feeding of belt, annealing and tempering • furnaces discharge of industrial washing and drying • machines feeding and discharge of industrial • electroplating and surface treatment lines Controlled, automatic and weight guaranteed feeding of bulk material ensures steady product quality, optimised efficiency of the downstream equipment to be fed, as well as reproduceable and traceable production parameters.

Controlled, automatic and weight guaranteed feeding of bulk ▲ ▲ material s

Skako Comessa – Germany Fax : +49 2364 106072 Email : skako_comessa@t-online.de Website : www.skakocomessa.com

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