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Electric ovens: Pros and cons

Feb 28, 2022 10:18:00 AM

Due to recent concern about environmental pollution from gas furnaces, many industrial furnaces users opted to convert their equipment to electrical operation.

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Aluminum heat treatment furnaces for direct heating applications

Sep 30, 2019 11:00:00 AM

With the aim of saving fuel, some industrial aluminum heat treat operations have tested the replacement of direct fire by indirect fire in their heat treatment operations.

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Application of Nutec Bickley’s Jointless insulation system in steel heating

Apr 12, 2019 9:00:00 AM

One of the most common practices in the industry is to use ceramic fiber modules anchored in steel to insulate the inside of industrial furnaces, these modules usually coming in a standard size of 12in x 12in (30.5cm x 30.5cm).

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Nutec Bickley Acquires Olson Industries

May 27, 2018 1:38:00 PM

Nutec Bickley (Monterrey, Mexico), the international leader in the design and manufacture of innovative and efficient industrial furnaces, ovens, ceramic kilns, and combustion systems, has announced the key asset acquisition of Olson Industries (Burgettstown, PA, USA).

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Success Stories: Car Bottom Heat Treating Furnace

May 26, 2018 12:29:00 PM

NUTEC BICKLEY delivered a Heat-Treating Car Bottom Furnace to a global forging company for one of their North American facility.

This industrial furnace design inside dimensions are 30ft L x 11ftW x 10ftH with a capacity of 110 Tons. The temperature operating range is 950˚F to 1850˚F with a...

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Aluminum Quenching Interesting Facts

May 26, 2018 12:28:22 PM

The aluminum heat treatment industry has a great variety of products and processes designed to enhance the material’s physical properties. Quenching is a process that involves cooling the workpiece at a rapid rate to increase its hardness.

Quenching with air results in a mostly uniform, but slow,...

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Aluminum Heat Treatment Systems

May 26, 2018 12:27:45 PM

Nutec Bickley provides custom Aluminum Heat Treatment Systems to match customer’s production and process requirements featuring:

  • Batch and continuous or semi-continuous systems.
  • Solution Heat Treating lines including front or below quenching function and aging ovens.

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Success Stories: Box Furnace for Aerospace Industry

May 26, 2018 12:24:25 PM

Nutec Bickley has completed the commissioning of a new Box Furnace for a Aerospace supplier on Southern California, USA.

The equipment is used to produce Titanium Forge rings used on the jet engines. The equipment comply with the AMS2750E requirements and other “end user” critical temperature...

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Heat Treatment of Aluminum and Aluminum Alloy

May 26, 2018 12:23:45 PM

Heat treatments are used to alter the physical, and sometimes chemical, properties of a material. The most common application is metallurgical. Heat treatment involves the use of heating or cooling, normally to extreme temperatures, to achieve a desired result such as hardening or softening of a...

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Soluciones completas y proyectos llave en mano para Hornos en la Industria Automotriz

May 26, 2018 12:23:05 PM

NUTEC BICKLEY es líder en la industria para el diseño, suministro, fabricación y puesta en marcha de hornos para diversas aplicaciones relacionadas a la industria automotriz.  

Nuestros sistemas incluyen:

  • Hornos para secado de corazones (batch y continuos), para piezas de fundición.

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