TPT November 2015

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Annealing line for stainless steel precision tubes

recrystallisation, as well as clean, bright and scratch-free finish of the tube surface. Plasmait’s heat and surface treatment solution not only met the client’s stringent quality requirements of

TUBING in the small diameter range below 1" OD is commonly used in specialist applications in the medical, aerospace, automotive and precision equipment sectors. These applications can demand tubing with the highest standards in terms of mechanical and surface quality. Plasmait has completed the building of an annealing and surface treatment line for a producer of precision tubing, which involved a custom-built coiler type payoff and take-up, and covered an OD range from 0.5 to over 8mm. The annealing and surface treatment line will be used primarily for various stainless steel and nickel alloy tubing, but will also be capable of producing other materials with a wide annealing temperature range from 300°C to 1,200°C. The line has been built for a producer of small size precision tubing whose prime concern was the quality of

Plasmait’s PlasmaAnnealer

times and associated energy costs that are symptomatic of a conventional furnace. Ion sputtering on the material surface results in dry surface degreasing and surface oxide removal, which have proved beneficial to applications with demanding surface requirements in sectors such as medical, heat exchanger, food processing, chemical, aerospace, aviation and automotive.

finished material, but also offered a modern, computer-controlled facility designed for ease of use and minimal environmental impact. The new facility occupies a fraction of the space that would be required by a conventional multi-line annealing furnace of the same capacity. The annealing line features high energy conversion efficiency, low purging gas consumption, quick string-in, and computer-based quality control. PlasmaAnnealer can cold start production in a few minutes, and can be stopped immediately. This avoids lengthy heating-up and cooling-down

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