This time the partner purchased a Vector vacuum furnace with gas cooling and a molybdenum heating chamber.
The solution ordered is a non-standard vacuum furnace designed to meet the customer’s precise requirements for effective heat treatment of ammunition elements. The single chamber vacuum furnace uses gas cooling. This is the eighth SECO/WARWICK vacuum furnace to be supplied to this major North Atlantic Treaty Organisation defence contractor.
“The Vector furnace is a compact solution with a heating chamber (300 x 300 x 400 mm). Combined with 1.5 bar gas cooling and the possibility of working with hydrogen, it fully meets the Partner’s requirements for sintering ammunition cores. The arms industry has been recording a large number of orders for several years and is struggling with challenges related to their timely implementation, hence the increased interest in vacuum furnaces, which significantly improve production capabilities. Projectile cores sintering requires high temperature, as much as 1600oC and operation in a full hydrogen atmosphere. The new solution will allow the Partner to solve the problem of the bottleneck which arose at this stage of projectile production”
says Maciej Korecki, Vice President of the Vacuum Segment, SECO/WARWICK Group.
The furnace design, although not standard, has already been tested in production conditions. The solution has a compact chamber with molybdenum ceramic insulation, which allows high purity and low heat losses. The furnace can be operated with hydrogen at high temperatures. It is equipped with a safety burner, which allows safe hydrogen combustion after the process, and an efficient and ergonomic pumping system. The cooling system, based on an internal gas blower, ensures optimal cooling conditions and significantly reduces the cooling time after sintering.
SECO/WARWICK for the defense sector
Partner is a European manufacturer of defence products with 100 years of manufacturing experience. The solutions they produce are often used in real combat conditions. They must be absolutely reliable, precise, of high quality and highly resistant to adverse external conditions. These expectations are met by Vector – a vacuum furnace that has consistently been the top-selling product in the SECO/WARWICK portfolio. Recently, SECO/WARWICK has supplied VECTOR furnaces to many companies in the military industry around the world, including the USA and Brazil.
