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Heat treatment services
News Release from: Summitglow | Subject: Heat treatment
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 11 February 2003
Pressure vacuum quench facility
commissioned
Marking its 20th anniversary, Summitglow heat treatment specialists has commissioned a high pressure quench vacuum furnace for heat treating small tool steel batch quantities.
Summitglow heat treatment specialists this year are celebrating their twentieth anniversary The company was originally established in 1983 purely to treat High Speed Steel by the salt bath method
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 11 Dec 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Today the company provides a wide range of heat treatment services, including salt baths, a Thermatec Phoenix 6 Bar Pressure Quench vacuum furnace, two British Furnaces sealed quenches, a Safed T25 continuous mesh belt furnace, and four Wild Barfield nitriding and nitrocarburising furnaces allowing us to treat up to four metres.
To help celebrate Summitglow's 20th Anniversary we have launched a new web site, which can be found at http://www.summitglow.co.uk prospective, and existing customers have access, on the web site, to full details of our processes, unbiased technical information provided by the CHTA (Contract Heat Treatment Association) and can now also use the 24 Hour Quote function on the web site.
By simply filling in a few quick details on the web site form we can have a quote on your desk in 24 hours.
General enquiries can be sent to info@summitglow.co.uk Also marking our twentieth year, a Thermatec Phoenix 6 Bar Pressure Quench vacuum furnace is now fully available.
This custom designed unit allows us to very rapidly treat small batch quantities of tool steel, high speed steel and many other speciality applications in particular medical components.
The furnace is loaded vertically to enable us to more easily treat components where straightness is of paramount importance.
The unit is a PC based system, allowing to us track very accurately the process and to produce graphs and charts of the entire treatment or highlight key stages during the treatment.
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