Started at Union Carbide in the 1960’s and Incorporated as ZIRCAR Products, Inc. in the early 1970’s, ZIRCAR Refractory Composites, Inc. (ZRCI) produces a comprehensive line of advanced high performance ceramic-ceramic composite materials and related products. Our materials are used around the... Read More
Accumet Materials produces high purity metals, custom alloys, and non-metallic, ceramic materials used in research and manufacturing. Products include metal and oxide single crystals, metal and alloy powders and fabricated parts, ceramic fabricated parts, aluminum nitride parts and powder,... Read More
Ipsen, Inc. designs and manufactures thermal processing systems including vacuum heat treating equipment, atmosphere furnaces and advanced thermal process control systems. With manufacturing operations worldwide, the most sophisticated research and development facilities in the industry, and... Read More
Abbott Furnace Company manufactures continuous belt sintering furnaces used in the powder metal industry. Sintering is a heat treatment applied to a powder compact in order to impart strength and integrity. The temperature used for sintering is below the melting point of the major constituent... Read more »
Abbott Furnace Company custom designs and manufactures continuous belt brazing furnaces in both straight or humpback designs. Brazing furnaces are used in manufacturing process where there is a need to join simple or complex designs of one joint or multi-joint assemblies. Furnace brazing is a... Read more »
Abbott Furnace Company’s annealing furnaces provide improved control over time and temperature relations to achieve desired properties in such areas as machinability, cold work (process annealing or in process annealing), dimensional stability, as well as electrical and mechanical properties.... Read more »
By Abbott Furnace Company
This paper focuses on the important parameters of the furnace and its atmosphere that affect the
integrity of the sintering process, and gives guidance on how to approach and solve the problems
they may cause.
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By Abbott Furnace Company
Steam treating is the controlled oxidation of
metals to produce a thin layer of oxide on the
surface of a component. This process can be used
to provide a component with increased corrosion
resistance, better wear resistance, increased
surface hardness, an attractive surface finish and,
in...
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By Abbott Furnace Company
Reducing operating costs is a major focus of part
producers as the costs of energy, manpower and materials
increase. The continuous brazing furnace is one area
where there are opportunities to reduce cost. Typically,
production requirements and the chemistry of the brazing
process dictate...
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