During the past few decades, fluidized-bed technology has not lost any of its importance for heat-treatment applications in terms of quality and has even become indispensable in some application niches due to its special properties.

Ajax designs and manufactures salt bath furnace equipment, including quenches, hoists and work handling systems used in the heat-treating industry. With over 60 years of thermal-processing experience, our customers include aerospace, agricultural, commercial heat treating, energy, glass strengthening, medical, dental and many more.

Kolene Corp., a Detroit-based provider of molten salt-bath equipment and specialty chemical formulations, acquired Upton Industries of Roseville, Mich. Upton Industries designs and manufactures thermal-processing systems for the heat-treating industry, including box-type, car-bottom and specialty furnaces utilizing electric or gas heating. Kolene will maintain both the Detroit headquarters location and the Roseville location, which will be home to all Kolene’s manufacturing and fabrication. By bringing the two companies together, the new Kolene will house nearly 50,000 square feet of manufacturing, fabrication and commercial processing capabilities.

Ajax Electric Co. installed a furnace system for a company in the medical industry.

We continue our discussion from last week's part 3.

Nitrate salts are generally very easy to handle with an approximate working temperature range from 350-1000°F.

The safety aspect of using heat-treatment salts cannot be overemphasized.