AMG Engineering maakt high-tech vacuum ovens

1. DeZwarteRidder 27 augustus 2017 08:28

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   AMG Engineering
   
   The AMG Engineering unit traces its origins to the predecessor companies of ALD Vacuum Technologies GmbH (ALD), founded in Germany during the mid-1800s. In the 1940’s, various German industrial companies combined their products and process expertise in the field of vacuum furnace metallurgy to form the immediate predecessor to ALD. In 1994, Leybold-Durferrit, the parent organization of these combined entities, spun out its vacuum furnace division, ALD, as a stand alone entity. Since then, ALD has achieved global leadership in many vacuum furnace applications including crystallization and turbine blade coating. Additionally, ALD established its “Own & Operate” service model and now has facilities in North America and Europe. In 2016, ALD acquired the remaining 50% share of its joint venture company, ALD-Holcroft Co. Inc., from AFC-Holcroft LLC. ALD-Holcroft, formed in 2005, acts as the exclusive sales agent for ALD’s heat treatment product lines in the NAFTA region. AMG Engineering continues to benefit from a ramp up in sales of new product lines launched in 2014 and 2015, including SyncroTherm®, a one-piece flow heat treatment furnacesystem with a high degree of automatization for the automotive market. In addition, AMG Engineering successfully launched 2 new product lines in 2016, including a plasma hearth melting furnace for the remelting of titanium aluminides for the aerospace engine industry; and new innovative coating equipment for the production of Ceramic Matrix Composite Fiber based on Chemical Vapor Deposition technology.
2. DeZwarteRidder 27 augustus 2017 08:29

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   AMG Engineering designs, engineers and produces advanced vacuum furnace systems and operates vacuum heat treatment facilities primarily for the transportation and energy (including solar and nuclear) industries. Furnace systems produced by AMG include vacuum remelting, solar silicon melting and crystallization, vacuum induction melting, vacuum heat treatment and high pressure gas quenching, turbine blade coating and sintering. AMG also provides vacuum case-hardening heat treatment services on a tolling basis.
   
   The AMG Engineering division’s furnace systems include:
   
   Vacuum remelting
   Plasma melting
   EB-melting
   Induction melting
   Powder production
   Sintering
   Precision casting
   Turbine blade coating
   Solar silicon crystallization
   Vacuum heat treatment
   Vacuum case-hardening with gas-quenching
   
   For more information, please visit ALD’s website.
   
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3. DeZwarteRidder 27 augustus 2017 08:31

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   ALD Vacuum Technologies – High Tech is our Business
   
   The word „Vacuum“ stems from the Latin adjective vacuus for "vacant" and describes an empty physical space. ALD is a worldwide leading supplier of vacuum systems for melting, coating and heat treatment of metals.
   
   In an empty physical space resp. in the controlled process atmosphere of a ALD systems our customers are able to produce especially pure and powerful metal materials and parts. Our customers – they are High Tech companies worldwide: Manufacturer of aerospace- and stationary turbines, semiconductors, solar cells, motor gearboxes or engines, which process high tech metals like special steels, superalloys, reactive and refractory metals or Rare Earths. Together with 382 employees at the headquarters in Hanau, Germany, a worldwide service network and own subsidiaries in North America, Japan, Russia, Mexico, India, Thailand, Poland, France and China as well as more than 20 representatives all over the world, ALD is a strong partner for this demanding industries.
   
   In Vacuum Metallurgy with our Primary and Secondary Melting Technologies highly pure steels and special alloys and special metals like Hastelloy, Titanium, Tantalum, Molybdenum or Niobium can be refined and melted into semifinished forms, precision parts or metal powders. We are world leaders for systems and processes for casting and coating of turbine blades and for recrystallization of ultraclean solar grade silicon. Our newly developed heat treatment and sintering technologies enables innovation in tool manufacturing and automotive gear industry.
   
   ALD is part of the AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N. V., Netherlands, a public listed technology company with leading market position and interesting growth potential.
   
   Our Subsidaries
   ALD Thermal Treatment, Inc.
   Port Huron, MI, USA
   ALD Vacuum Systems Inc.
   Wixom, MI, USA
   ALD France
   Grenoble, France
   ALD Dynatech Furnaces Pvt. Ltd.
   Mumbai, India
   VACUHEAT GmbH
   Limbach-Oberfrohna, Germany
   ALD-C&K Vacuum Technologies
   (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., China
   ALD CnK
   ALD Tratamientos Termicos SA de CV
   Ramos Arizpe, Coah., Mexico
   ALD Vacuum Technologies, Inc.
   East Windsor, CT, USA
   
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   Own & Operate
   Own & Operate - Vacuum Heat Treatment at First Hand
   
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   Equipment Engineering and Production Services – a synergistic production combination
   
   The “new technology” was developed by ALD Vacuum Technologies in the early 1990’s. This equipment technology offered distinct advantages to traditional atmosphere heat treat processes and as a result, new process techniques such as vacuum carburizing and high pressure gas quenching were developed for this new vacuum technology.
   
   When first introduced, the processes were not easily accepted as they were significantly different from established heat treat processes using atmosphere and oil quenches. We envisioned that the new process technology would solve many of the problems such as fit and form that were often associated with these traditional atmosphere and oil bath quenches, especially in high volume serial production.
   
   To assist the global manufacturing community in understanding the new technology, ALD Vacuum Technology established the Own and Operate Division, which provided a showcase for the ALD brand equipment technology as well as the new process techniques. In this manner, the client can conduct an investigation in a real time setting and determine the benefits of the equipment technology for their own unique components or to test the new process technology.
   
   If after review, the client would like to order the equipment, we are pleased to work with them through the order, installation and training of their personnel. For those manufacturers that would prefer to outsource the heat treat processes we have established service centers to accommodate their needs and provide the services on a contractural basis.
   
   Since our first Service Center was established in 1999 in Limbach-Oberfrohna, we have expanded to provide additional service centers in Port Huron Michigan (USA) and Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila (Mexico). Each one of these service centers offer unique services and processes serving different industries. We constantly seek for new opportunities to expand this service center network.
   
   Vacuheat GmbH Limbach OberFrohna (Chemnitz, Germany), was established in 1999, as a subsidiary of the Own and Operate Group. Here we provide for the heat treatment of diesel fuel injection components for a local customer. Based on the success of this operation we developed other processes for high temperature brazing (heat exchangers).
   
   ALD Thermal Treatment (USA) in Port Huron, Michigan was established in 2005. This particular service center was instrumental in the introduction of vacuum carburizing (LPC) with high pressure gas quench (HPGQ) on transmission gears for the US automotive industry. A variety of gears used in the modern 6 Speed Automatic transmissions are heat treated at this facility and shipped to three Transmission plants in the Midwest. In 2010, we merged the South Carolina facility (founded in 2001) into the Port Huron Service Center.
   
   These highly developed ALD vacuum carburizing processes have become the industry benchmark for stable metallurgical results and in the reduction of distortion in precision gear geometries. It is highly prized by a wide variety of clients in the automotive industry.
   
   ALD Tratamientos Termicos (Mexico) was established in 2008 to provide the ALD vacuum carburizing processes in the Mexico marketplace. A variety of gears are also heat treated and supplied to two Automatic Transmission plants based in Mexico. We continue to grow this operation with additional equipment and have acquired further customers already.