Many
metals require heating and/or heat treating to
achieve their optimum physical properties. Heating
also is used as part of other metal forming processes. The Inductotherm
Group companies manufacture heating and/or heat treating
equipment.
Inductoheat, the world's
largest manufacturer of induction heating equipment,
offers product lines ranging from general purpose machines
to custom engineered, fully automated heat treating
systems. With more than 20 companies around the
world, including North and South America, Europe, Australia
and Asia, it is a recognized name in automotive and machine tool industies. >> www.inductoheat.com
Inductoheat HWG is based in Germany and manufactures both highly customized and standardized induction heat treating systems. It also operates a comercial heat treating shop. >> www.hwg-inductoheat.de
Inductotherm HWT, based out of two facilities in the UK, builds Radyne brand wire heat treatment systems for the automotive spring, tire cord and construction markets and pipe coating systems for off-shore gas and oil distribution pipelines. IHWT serves all non-ferrous manufacturers by producing Banyard brand induction units for applications such as pre-heaters for extrusion plants, in-line annealing systems for tube production, pre- heaters for rolling mills and stub heaters for smelter rod production. IHWT also manufactures Newelco brand large capacity induction billet and bar heating equipment used with major forming machine manufacturers. >> www.inductotherm-hwt.co.uk
Radyne Corp. is an international leader in induction process heating technology, marketing a comprehensive range of systems for heat treatment of component parts, turnkey systems for wire heat treating, billet and bar heating, crystal growing, shrink fitting, oilfield and pipe coating equipment and turnkey systems for brazing and soldering. >> www.radyne.com
The
proper hardening, tempering, annealing or other
thermal processing ensures that critical parts perform
as designed.
