TPT July 2008

H eat & S urface T reatments

Extensive range of induction heating equipment

Efficient and effective colour coating

ATE TermoElettroniche, Italy, designs and manufactures induction heating equipment and plants with related control and supervisory systems. The company’s technology and knowledge ensure not only the advantages of induction heating, but also a design capacity targeted towards specific requirements. The company’s manufacturing programme includes medium frequency SCR converters (unit power up to 2,000kW, frequency from 0.5 to 10kHz), high frequency IGBT converters (unit power up to 800kW, Applicazioni

frequency from 4 to 150kHz), and induction heat-treatment plants for automated production lines. ATE also offer plants for through-heating of steel, copper and aluminium (for subsequent hot-forming), plants for hot assembly of mechanical parts, and melting furnaces for ferrous and non-ferrous metals and precious alloys. In addition, the company supply plants for induction welding and brazing, and equipment for special applications of induction heating.

Universal Finishing Systems is a UK manufacturer of coating equipment for the steel tube industry. The company has been manufacturing integrated modular pre- treatment, coating and drying systems for the tube industry for over 10 years. Traditionally, the application of colour coatings is either carried with powder coating, which can be slow and energy demanding, or with conventional liquid coatings, which take a long time to dry and are often damaged by conveyor rolls and belts. Universal’s process uses pigmented UV curable coatings, which are applied in its vacuum coating system and then cured instantaneously by UV light radiation. This ensures that no volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are emitted during the process. In addition, all the coating is recycled. The equipment is compact and it is possible to install the equipment on ERW mills, prior to the flying shear. Universal Finishing Systems – UK Fax : +44 1244 288 102 Email : mail@tubecoaters.com Website : www.tubecoaters.com and minimised oxidation. The 36ft furnace complements these advantages with the capability to heat lengths up to 36ft or large loads of coil. The new furnace has a hot zone with a working diameter up to 6ft. Work load capabilities can range up to 150,000lb, processing temperatures up to 2,650°F, and vacuum levels of 10-5 torr. The large furnaces process tubing lengths and coils manufactured from stainless, copper, aluminium, Inconel and titanium. Processes depend on materials and specifications, with options that include bright annealing, hydrogen annealing, stress relieving, age hardening, solution treating and degassing. Solar’s large furnaces, 10ft, 12ft, 24ft and 36ft in length, are suitable for heat-treating various sized pipe lengths and loads. Stainless pipe lengths, bends and fittings are regularly annealed, and carbon steel

In the field of pipe heating, ATE’s equipment can carry out tasks including annealing heat-treatment of stainless steel and titanium pipes, hardening and tempering of carbon steel pipes, preheating of carbon steel pipes, seam annealing of carbon steel pipes, stress relieving of end steel pipes, and coating and painting of steel pipes. ATE Applicazioni TermoElettroniche – Italy Fax : +39 0444 406434 Email : info@ate.it Website : www.ate.it

 ATE induction heating equipment and plants

New vacuum heat-treating capabilities

Solar Atmospheres, USA, has added to its range of high capacity vacuum furnaces, with the installation of a 36ft long furnace at its Western PA plant. Manufactured by Solar Manufacturing, the 36ft furnace supplements the company’s three 24ft

furnaces and 40 other vacuum furnaces at its two plants. The advantage of vacuum heat treating tube and pipe is precise and uniform temperature processing with bright results

 Solar Atmospheres has installed a new 36ft furnace to complement its existing furnaces of up to 24ft

pipe lengths are normalised. Solar Atmospheres – USA Fax : +1 215 723 6460 Email : info@solaratm.com Website : www.solaratm.com

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