Heating for Forging
Nutec Bickley provides Forging furnaces with the best technology for the heating and reheating large steel ingots, blooms and parts. Our equipment
- Box
- Car-bottom
- Regenerative burners retrofits
Some of our typical process and design features are as follows:
- Heavy duty and stable steel frame and refractories construction
- Most advanced heat reclamation systems savings up to 70 % vs cold air. 10-70%.
- Fiber linned sections using the patented jointless system. Completely free of joints. Less maintenance. Shrinkage
- Temperatures up to 1350 C
- Designs to comply with AMS2750E and NADCAP standards with temperature tolerances according with class 1.
- Pulse Firing for better temperatura uniformity and fuel savings.
Stress relieving after forging
Nutec Bickley provides furnaces with the best technology for the stress relieving of steel parts after forging.
Our equipment
- Bell
- Moving hood
- Car-bottom
Some of our typical process and design features are as follows:
- Outdoors designs available with required steel construction details and NEMA4 or IP65 codes components.
- Heavy duty and stable steel frame construction
- Light weight insulation systems (ceramic Fiber) for easy movement of the furnace system
- Pulse firing combustion system to allow an excellent temperature uniformity
- Cooling nozzles systems available to accelerate and control the cooling part of the cycles.
Heat treating
Nutec Bickley provides heat treating furnaces with the best technology for the following processes: Normalizing, Austenitizing, Tempering, Annealing and stress relieving.
Our equipment
- Box
- Car-bottom
- Tip-up
- Bell
- Walking hearth and beam
- Chain and mesh belt
- Roller hearth
- Pusher
- Slotted Roof Monorail conveyor
- Moving hood
Some of our typical process and design features are as follows:
- Heavy duty and stable steel frame and refractory construction
- Most advanced heat recovery systems with recuperative burners or central recuperators.
- Fiber linned sections using the jointless system. Completely free of joints.
- Pulse firing combustion system to allow an excellent temperature uniformity
- Cooling nozzles systems available to accelerate and control the cooling part of the cycles.
- Designs to comply with AMS2750 , with temperature tolerances according with category 2 in aerospace applications.
- High forced convection designs for tempering applications.
Preheaters
Nutec Bickley provides preheating units with the best technology to preheat tools for hot assembly, dies of presses and load.
Our equipment
- Box
- Car-bottom
Some of our typical process and design features are as follows:
- Non burner required.
- Use of external energy source using hot gases from existing forge furnaces.
- Heavy duty and stable steel frame construction
- Control system capability to maintain stable operation. And forge furnace (source energy) can be used in normal operation.
Air cooling units
Nutec Bickley provides batch and continuous units with the best technology to deliver controlled cooling of special alloys parts after forging and final blast cooling.
Our equipment
- Box
- Chain and mesh belt
- Slotted Roof Monorail conveyor
- Roller hearth
Some of our typical process and design features are as follows:
- Heavy duty and stable steel frame construction
- Use of burner system in order to cool with burners “on or off”, depending of the cooling requirements.
- Insulation system designed according with inside temperatures and cooling requirements
- Controlled Air handling system with air inlets and outlets in order match desired cooling profile during transformation.
- Final blast air cooling sections for safe parts handling.
Heating of end and centers
Nutec Bickley provides continuous units with the best technology for the heating process of steel end bars before forging process.
Our equipment
- Continuous end & center heaters
- Slot
Some of our typical process and design features are as follows:
- Heavy duty and stable steel frame and refractory construction
- Infrared sensor control for continuous heaters
- Decrease of steel Decarburization in continuous heaters.
