Seco/Warwick will deliver a 12 Bar Universal HPQ™ (High Pressure Quench) vacuum furnace to IBC Coating Technologies, Inc. in Lebanon, IN this spring. This low-pressure vacuum carburizing furnace with high temperature convection heating is intended for hardening and carburizing bearing steel and aerospace components. The furnace will be designed with a hot zone of 24” x 24” x 36” and a maximum temperature rating of 2400ºF and 1300-lb gross load capacity. It will also have 12-bar pressure quenching. Additional features include isothermal quenching and modifications to address low-distortion and demands of high-performance bearings and gear markets. This is the second vacuum furnace that IBC has purchased from Seco/Warwick.
The Seco/Warwick Group and its five business segments produce vacuum furnaces (VAC), atmosphere furnaces (ATM), controlled atmosphere aluminum brazing furnaces (CAB), aluminum process furnaces (AP) and vacuum metallurgy equipment Retech (VME) in its manufacturing sites in Poland (Seco/Warwick Europe), the United States (Seco/Warwick Corp. + RETECH Systems LLC), India (Seco/Warwick Allied Ltd.) and China (Seco/Warwick RETECH Mfg. (Tianjin) Co., Ltd.). Sales, service, and spare parts offices in Germany (SECO/WARWICK Services GmbH) and Russia (Seco/Warwick Russia) complete the worldwide customer care network. The Seco/Warwick Vacuum Team offers vacuum heat treating furnaces for hardening, tempering, annealing, solution heat treating, brazing, sintering, carburizing, carbonitriding, high vacuum, CVD–graphitizing and degassing. Seco/Warwick has built some of the largest and technically advanced vacuum furnaces in operation today, developing advanced technologies like Universal HPQ™ (High Pressure Quench), PreNit® and FineCarb® LPC vacuum carburizing, fully automated control systems, and modeling software. Vacuum furnace configurations are available for vertical, horizontal, and elevator style furnaces. Both cylindrical and rectangular hot zones with metallic or graphite heating elements are available for both new and used equipment. Retech LLC provides vacuum melting equipment. Visit www.secowarwick.com for more information.
IBC develops diffusion surface treatment technologies for anti-wear and anti-corrosion applications. IBC innovative surface treatments, based on plasma-chemical and diffusion reactions—boriding, nitrocarburizing, chrome carbide, vanadium carbide, etc.—are used in different applications with very good results.
IBC Coating Technologies, Inc. is a privately-owned company located in Lebanon, IN. The company started its activities in July of 1996 as a research and development project, based on the know-how and experience of its founders. The company has expanded the array of its services in material treatments. Learn more at www.ibccoatings.com.
