“Our partner, being a commercial, uses two flagship Seco/Warwick products, which are multi-chamber furnace – CaseMaster Evolution® (CMe®) – and single chamber furnace – Vector®. Both solutions are the most popular technologies for vacuum heat treatment selected by commercial hardening plants worldwide. The vacuum carburising process is the common denominator for both solutions.” – said Maciej Korecki, Vice-President of the Vacuum Furnace Segment at Seco/Warwick.
Vacuum carburising is a short and precise process, therefore a very efficient one and efficiency entails low process costs, which is of key importance for any customer of heat treatment solutions. This main feature is behind the popularity of CMe and Vector solutions which makes them frequently chosen by commercial hardening plants.
“Commercial heat treatment shop Hart-Tech implements tailor-made processes which ensure unique effects of heat treatment, making them stand out from their competition. We can perform unique processes thanks to our cooperation with Seco/Warwick” emphasised Sylwester Pawęta, Operations Director and Commercial Proxy at Hart-Tech.
As time goes on, customers from various industries expect increasing reliability, performance and better results of heat treatment. Seco/Warwick Group’s Vector and CMe vacuum furnace ranges respond to these expectations. Both carburising and gas and oil cooling in single- and multi-chamber furnaces guarantee the highest quality of heat treatment. The quality is guaranteed not only by state-of-the-art technology but also by the competences of the partner – the scientists working at the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering at Lodz University of Technology. Hart-Tech itself is a modern hardening plant using advanced heat treatment as well as heat and chemical treatment technologies, operating the equipment that enables performance of processes following the latest technologies, both conventional and vacuum.
Both solutions bring the best operating performance and enable the heat treatment of many different materials. This is the key factor when selecting furnaces to be used in commercial hardening plants. Combined with low process costs, shorter cycles, higher output and precise control over the process, they make the carburising made in Seco/Warwick competitive. Satisfaction with results, expertise and experience of Seco/Warwick have resulted in the long-term cooperation of the companies and are now also translated into the purchase of another device. This time it is CaseMaster Evolution with oil hardening.
CMe – highly-efficient furnace for vacuum carburising – ensures an exceptionally high carbon transfer ratio thanks to the vacuum process. It provides perfect carbon penetration when carburising even densely packed loads and parts of complex shapes or having plugged holes. No intracrystalline oxidation and perfect uniformity of the carburised layer enable the production of high-quality parts.
Customers of Hart-Tech will soon see the benefits from the use of precise low-pressure vacuum carburising and oil hardening.
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