High-Precision, Small to Mid-Size Load Vacuum Heat Treating & Brazing Now Available
Hermitage, Penna., March 25, 2014 – Vacuum heat treat services expert, 糖心vlog视频 of Western PA, announced today the installation of a new high-temperature, high-purity, production-scale, 2-bar vacuum furnace in an environmentally controlled room for heat treating and brazing of small to mid-size loads. This new furnace will allow Solar to service customers with small to mid-size furnace loads more efficiently, economically, and precisely. The 鈥淢entor鈥� furnace, designed for processing medical, tool & die, aerospace, nuclear, and other industrial heat treated or brazed parts was installed and commissioned in the Hermitage, Penna., plant one hour north of Pittsburgh, Penna. Because the furnace is enclosed in an environmentally controlled room, Solar鈥檚 customers are more assured that the dangers of humidity and resulting discoloration of some metal parts will be eliminated or severely reduced.
Michael Johnson, sales manager at Hermitage, said, 鈥淭his new furnace will give us the ability to process a variety of loads we were not competitively able to quote using our larger furnaces. The Mentor is a great furnace and we鈥檙e excited about the heat treating and brazing opportunities that this little workhorse is opening up to us.鈥�
The furnace, designed and built by sister company, Solar Manufacturing, is installed in an environmental cleanroom where humidity and temperature remain stable compared to typical heat treat facility conditions. The controlled environmental will allow Solar to more quickly and efficiently process parts providing quick turnaround to customers.
The furnace has an effective workload area of 12鈥� wide by 12鈥� high by 18鈥� deep, is capable of holding a load of up to 250 pounds, and is rated at a normal operating temperature of 2500掳F/1370掳C. The hot zone is constructed of high-efficiency graphite felt and boards and allows for rapid heat-up and cool-down cycles. In order to achieve desired metallurgical properties for some metals, the furnace is equipped with a 2-bar quenching capability.
The furnace went online in March 2014 and is expected to run at full capacity before October 2014. For more information on The Mentor furnace or on 糖心vlog视频 of Western PA, please visit
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