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Vacuum furnaces For more than 60 years the name of Schmetz has been associated with high technology in the field of vacuum furnaces for heat treatments including hardening, annealing, brazing and sintering of tools, drills, milling cutters, pelleting dies, heat-exchangers, pipe fittings in special steel, magnets, PM-materials, turbine blades and aircraft components. Schmetz is among the leading partners for modern industrial plants, with an established product programme and new systems such as: FUTUR – with convection heating for more efficient heat • treatment 2R – gas quenching with minimised distortion and • 2-directional reversal 2x2R – gas quenching with vertical and horizontal direction • reversal 2PLUS – quenching in a separate cooling chamber for higher • cooling speeds COOL PLUS – automatic hardening and tempering processes • with a sub-zero phase Now, with the recently developed Schmetz eSS system, it is said to be possible to save energy costs and to reduce cycle times.

Schmetz GmbH – Germany Email : info@schmetz.de

Fax : +49 2373 686 154 Website : www.schmetz.de

Vertical loading vacuum furnace from Schmetz ❍ ❍

Electric furnace ILES Srl presents model 1.08.3+7.62+DCB – the electric furnace with a horizontal chamber, together with quenching tank and NC loading device. The main characteristic is the automatic loading/unloading/quenching system of inter- locking to the furnace, named DCB. This is made of a four-axle NC loading device that, using a personalising hooking device, allows the operator to work in a completely safe zone.

Innovation in annealing

Celebrating over 40 years of bell-type batch annealing furnace designs, Rad-Con, Inc engineers, manufactures, installs, and supports high-capacity, robust systems to the wire and wire-rod industry. Rad-Con has pioneered innovation 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 (H 2 SHC)™ system utilises the most advanced fan designs combined with a 100% hydrogen atmosphere, resulting in greater temperature uniformity 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 AC/APEx™ atmosphere control system, coupling gas stream analysis with closed-loop process control results in improved surface quality of the charge while minimising the amount of atmosphere gas required. Specialising in annealing systems to produce spheroidised cold heading quality (CHQ) wire for the fastener industry, Rad-Con’s experience also encompasses ferrous and non-ferrous applications in the agricultural, electrical, construction, spring, industrial, and communications industries.

Electric furnace from ILES ❍ ❍

The operator has only some simple operations to put the pieces in and out of the NC loading device, taking just a few minutes for each cycle. To program the machine the operator enters the data by means of the operator board. ILES Srl – Italy Fax : +39 0373 750110 Email : info@iles.it Website : www.iles.it

Rad-Con – USA

Fax : +1 440 871 5720 Website : www.rad-con.com

Email : sales@rad-con.com

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Wire & Cable ASIA – January/February 2009