Using “thru-process” temperature monitoring allows you to gain a better understanding of your gas carburizing process from beginning to end.

Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems designed and commissioned a vacuum oil-quench furnace to an international manufacturer. The batch system, which has an isolated graphite heating chamber, is capable of processing 12-inch-wide x 12-inch-high x 36-inch-long loads weighing up to 500 pounds. It is rated for operation up to 3000°F (1649°C). The modular furnace design gives the company the capability of utilizing the 2-bar gas quench in the heating chamber or transferring through internal doors to the oil-quench module.

Solar Atmospheres of Western PA (SAWPA) will install a 36-inch x 36-inch x 48-inch vacuum oil-quench (VOQ) furnace capable of safely quenching 2,000-pound loads without carbon-potential concerns. Designed and built by Solar Manufacturing, the furnace will be operational in early 2021. 

SECO/VACUUM Technologies (SVT), a SECO/WARWICK Group division with headquarters in Meadville, Pa., will supply a dual-chamber vacuum oil-quench furnace to an aerospace equipment manufacturer. The company is bringing its low-pressure carburizing and hardening work in-house. The furnace uses one chamber for vacuum heat treatment and the second chamber for oil quenching.

L&L Special Furnace Co. Inc. supplied a custom-designed oil-quench tank to a metal stamping manufacturer in the Midwest. The quench tank is specifically used to quench metal stamping dies that are heated to 1550°F. Usable dimensions of the tank are 12 inches wide x 12 inches high x 24 inches long. The parts are placed in a basket prior to being quenched then manually placed into the quench oil.

Premier Thermal Solutions is increasing oil quench-and-temper capacity at its Atmosphere Annealing Mt. Hope facility in Lansing, Mich. Through the enhancement of an existing roller-hearth tray furnace, the facility will double its oil-quench capacity. The additional capacity is in response to increasing demand seen from many of the industries that Atmosphere Annealing serves, including automotive, energy, heavy equipment, heavy truck and rail. The furnace will be online in the first quarter of 2019.

PhoenixTM supplied a hot-box oil-quench monitoring system to Musashi Auto Parts Inc., a Canadian auto-parts manufacturer.

Hardening of steel is a major operation in heat treatment.