Industries
Power Generation and Advanced Energy
From a worldwide perspective, the power generation industry seems almost too large and diverse to categorize. There are global trends to watch, including the rise of big data analytics and the decline in hardware costs, but there are also significant, country to country differences in:
- Construction Machinery
- Electronics
- Fire Safety/Electrical Conduit
- Marine Equipment
- Petrochemical
- Recreation
- Shipping
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Slab, Bloom and Transfer Bar Heaters
Our high-power density Slab, Bloom and Transfer Bar Heaters provide efficient and cost-effective technologies to bring surfaces to the optimal temperatures required for forming, rolling or forging. Metals which are susceptible to oxidation and scale formation such as titanium, if heated above certain temperatures, can be accurately heated using induction heating, thus increasing yield andhttps://www.inductothermgroup.com/products/slab-bloom-and-transfer-bar-heaters/...
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Vertical Billet Heaters
Banyard Vertical Steel Induction (VSI) systems have been designed for the precise vertical induction heating of solid or pierced billets and tubes. These systems heat billet diameters from 150mm to 460mm, and lengths from 300mm to 1500mm. Benefits include better temperature distribution, ability to vary the temperature profile along the billet length, and no billethttps://www.inductothermgroup.com/products/vertical-billet-heaters/...
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Vacuum Aluminum Brazing Furnaces (VAB)
Vacuum Aluminium Brazing (VAB) is utilized to perform fluxless brazing of aluminum components in a high vacuum environment. The process demands tight control of temperature uniformity together with low vacuum leak rates and high repeatability. VAB will provide a component with very clean, high quality, high strength brazed joints. Consarc offers a wide range ofhttps://www.inductothermgroup.com/products/vacuum-aluminum-brazing-furnaces-vab/...
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Vacuum De-oiling Furnaces (VD)
Consarc has developed a range of vacuum thermal de-oiling furnaces to remove oils by volatilization at low pressure and temperature. Unlike aqueous cleaning processes, vacuum de-oiling does not have any requirements for waste water treatment. Also, oil removed from the components can be recycled. For removal of the oil, furnaces are fitted with a speciallyhttps://www.inductothermgroup.com/products/vacuum-de-oiling-furnaces-vd/...
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Vacuum Heat Treatment and Brazing Furnaces (VHT)
Vacuum heat treatment is a well-established practice in the aerospace (both OEM and repair), land-based turbine, automotive and tool industries. Controlled thermal processing of components is carried out in a vacuum environment to eliminate the deleterious effects of the charge reacting with the gases present in the air....
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ARMS® (Automated Robotic Melt Shop Systems)
Inductotherm Group companies are the first to develop and manufacture an innovative automated robotic melt shop system, called the ARMS™ System. The ARMS System replaces the furnace operator on the open melt deck with a foundry robot that has integrated charging, slag removal, tool handling and remote viewing systems. This allows the furnace operator tohttps://www.inductothermgroup.com/products/arms-automated-robotic-melt-shop-systems/...
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Automated Pouring Systems
Inductotherm brand automated pouring systems for foundries and melt shops are designed for maximum productivity. They provide the higher levels of pouring accuracy required to eliminate quality robbing under-pours and metal wasting over-pours....
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Induction Holding Furnaces
Inductotherm Group companies manufacture two types of advanced holding systems: Channel furnaces and Mini-Heel™ furnaces. Both offer true volume flexibility for continuous and batch duplexing, and can maintain a continuous supply of metal ready to pour 24 hours a day, 7 days a week....
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Induction Melting Furnaces
Inductotherm brand coreless melting furnaces provide superior performance and outstanding durability for all your melt shop needs, regardless of the size of your foundry. Inductotherm Group companies offer a range of furnace sizes from small induction melting furnaces that meet the demanding requirements of investment casters, specialty foundries and the precious metals industry, to heavyhttps://www.inductothermgroup.com/products/induction-melting-furnaces/...
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Flying Saws
Inductotherm Group companies offer a range of flying cold and friction saws to meet your tube and pipe cutting requirements. Alpha flying cold saws provide a near burr-free cut. Both single and multiple head designs are available for small or large product, or product which is reshaped into squares or rectangles. Blade surface speed ishttps://www.inductothermgroup.com/products/flying-saws/...
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High Frequency (HF) Welders
Thermatool is the world’s leading brand in induction welding equipment. With two decades of success in solid state technology, and over fifty years of process knowledge, Thermatool solid state high frequency welders are the most advanced, reliable, field-proven welders available in the world today. Thermatool solid state welding units are designed to handle load fluctuations,https://www.inductothermgroup.com/products/high-frequency-hf-welders/...
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High Speed Flying Shears
Alpha® flying shears are the fastest, most efficient and accurate tube cutting systems available in the world today. Alpha flying shears provide a patented double-cut die set which enables producers to cut dimple-free, ready for market products directly off the mill. Inductotherm Group companies offers a full range of Alpha flying shears for nearly allhttps://www.inductothermgroup.com/products/high-speed-flying-shears/...
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Tube Heaters/Seam Annealers
Many Inductotherm Group companies manufacture Thermatool brand seam annealing/normalizing systems for the tube and pipe industry. These highly efficient systems provide rigorous quality control and ensure process repeatability with their continuous temperature monitoring, required by all API pipe producers to prove that critical process temperatures have been reached during each shift. Powered by VIP™ Serieshttps://www.inductothermgroup.com/products/tube-heaters-seam-annealers/...
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Vacuum Aluminum Brazing Furnaces (VAB)
Vacuum Aluminium Brazing (VAB) is utilized to perform fluxless brazing of aluminum components in a high vacuum environment. The process demands tight control of temperature uniformity together with low vacuum leak rates and high repeatability. VAB will provide a component with very clean, high quality, high strength brazed joints. Consarc offers a wide range ofhttps://www.inductothermgroup.com/products/vacuum-aluminum-brazing-furnaces-vab/...
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Vacuum De-oiling Furnaces (VD)
Consarc has developed a range of vacuum thermal de-oiling furnaces to remove oils by volatilization at low pressure and temperature. Unlike aqueous cleaning processes, vacuum de-oiling does not have any requirements for waste water treatment. Also, oil removed from the components can be recycled. For removal of the oil, furnaces are fitted with a speciallyhttps://www.inductothermgroup.com/products/vacuum-de-oiling-furnaces-vd/...
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Vacuum Heat Treatment and Brazing Furnaces (VHT)
Vacuum heat treatment is a well-established practice in the aerospace (both OEM and repair), land-based turbine, automotive and tool industries. Controlled thermal processing of components is carried out in a vacuum environment to eliminate the deleterious effects of the charge reacting with the gases present in the air....
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Electromagnetic Cold Crucible (EMCC)
Electromagnetic Cold Crucible (EMCC) is an innovative process utilizing a segmented water-cooled copper crucible for refractory-free induction melting within a vacuum or controlled atmosphere. Melting in a water-cooled copper crucible eliminates the possibility of contamination from the fused silica solar crucible. The copper crucible is made up of water-cooled segments or “fingers.” The magnetic fieldhttps://www.inductothermgroup.com/products/electromagnetic-cold-crucible-emcc/...
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ElectroSlag Remelting Furnaces (ESR)
Consarc brand electroslag remelting furnaces improve the efficiency and performance of the process by combining the use of a “high fill ratio” electrode (an electrode whose diameter approaches that of the crucible) with an AC line frequency furnace design in which the main power conductors are arranged coaxially around the melt zone. The high fill ratio electrode provideshttps://www.inductothermgroup.com/products/electroslag-remelting-furnaces-esr/...
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Induction Skull Melting Furnaces (ISM)
Consarc offers Induction Skull Melting (ISM) furnaces which is a method of melting metals in a segmented water-cooled copper vessel while under vacuum or controlled atmosphere using an induction coil. Consarc ISM furnaces provide superior chemical and thermal homogeneity when compared to more traditional methods of melting reactive materials such as arc skull casting....
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Vacuum Arc Remelting Furnaces (VAR)
VAR Furnaces are used for melting material that have already been melted and cast into electrodes that are near their full packing density. Consarc utilizes fully computerized controls to optimize reproducibility and ease of operation. Custom furnaces in laboratory scale or for the production of unusual geometric configurations are available upon request....
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Vacuum Cap Furnaces (VCAP)
The VCAP furnace is designed for Induction Melting a solid charge in an air atmosphere (or vacuum), with final degassing stage under vacuum. The final pouring of the metal is performed in air or under protective atmosphere of inert gas. Configuration is based on the Inductotherm brand of steel shell induction furnaces which are fully adaptedhttps://www.inductothermgroup.com/products/vacuum-cap-furnaces-vcap/...
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Vacuum Induction Melting Furnaces (VIM)
Consarc brand equipment includes a variety of Vacuum Induction Melting (VIM) furnaces, including Electrode VIM systems, Master Alloy VIM systems, and small R&D systems. A wide variety of configurations are available to match customer requirements....
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Vacuum Precision Investment Casting (VPIC)
Consarc’s line of Vacuum Precision Investment Casting (VPIC) furnaces are uniquely designed to assure repeatable production with minimal maintenance and high furnace availability. Parts with an Equiax grain structure are easily produced in a Consarc VPIC system. With the addition of a mold heater and water-cooled chill plate, directionally solidified and single-crystal castings can behttps://www.inductothermgroup.com/products/vacuum-precision-investment-casting-vpic/...
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