Furnaces & Parts
Applications
Vacuum furnace chambers have a wide range of applications across various industries:
Heat Treatment
- Annealing: Softening metals for improved machinability and to enhance mechanical and electrical properties
- Normalizing: Improving the mechanical properties of steel
- Hardening: Increasing the hardness of steel
- Tempering: Reducing the brittleness of hardened steel
- Carburizing: Increasing the carbon content of steel to improve wear resistance
- Nitriding: Improving the surface hardness of steel by introducing nitrogen
Sintering
- Ceramics: Reducing porosity and enhancing strength, transparency, thermal conductivity, or electrical conductivity
- Cermets: Joining ceramics and metals to create hard, wear-resistant materials
- Refractory metals: Producing high-melting-point metals like tungsten and molybdenum
- Cutting tools: Manufacturing cemented carbide cutting tools
Brazing
- Joining metal components using a filler material
- Producing vacuum switching chambers for the electrical industry
- Joining aluminum products like heat exchangers
Melting and Casting
- Glass: Melting raw materials to produce glass
- Non-ferrous metals: Melting metals like aluminum, copper, and precious metals
- Ferroalloys: Producing alloys containing iron
Pyrolysis
- Decomposing organic waste at high temperatures in the absence of oxygen
- Converting biomass into valuable products like charcoal and biofuels
Vacuum furnace chambers play a crucial role in many industries, enabling processes that are essential for the production of a wide range of materials and products while preventing oxidation and contamination