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Solution Heat Treat and Age Hardening Furnace Systems are custom engineered to process aluminum castings, forgings, extrusions and plate.  We develop designs to suit every type of production environment including  roller hearth, tower furnaces, cast link conveyors, batch systems with both spray and integral quench systems and age hardening furnaces.  These systems are designed for solution heat treatment, solution annealing, precipitation hardening, artificial harden, age hardening, artificial aging (ageing) and preheat applications. 

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Solution Heat Treatment New! Read our updated Solution Heat Treat Furnace Systems in Adobe Acrobat, .pdf format.
Product Bulletin Solution Heat Treatment & Age Hardening AluminiumFor a quick download, access our Solution Heat Treat Product Bulletin here in html format.

Jet Impingement Technology

Jet Impingement Technology Solution Heat Treat FurnaceReprint from APT Aluminium: Achieving ±1°F Uniformity in Solution Heat Treatment System with JetImpingement Technology
Jet Impingement Short Cycle TechnologyShort cycle heat treatment of aluminum castings  SECO/WARWICK Corporation embarked on a development program to solve the problem of Uniformity of Heating Rate in a Conventional Mass Flow Jet Heating Furnace for the Solution Heat Treatment of Aluminum Castings, and was awarded a patent in February 2006 for the resulting design.
Tower FurnaceTower Furnace for Aluminium Solution Heat TreatmentSECO/WARWICK has designed and installed a unique Tower Furnace for extruded aluminum tubing.  This bulletin provides an illustration and description of the system.
Roller Hearth FurnaceRoller hearth Furnace for Aluminium Solution Heat TreatmentA Roller Hearth Furnace line can be employed to heat treat aluminum castings or forgings on a batch/continuous basis.  This bulletin provides illustrations and describes quenching options.
Furnaces for ForgingSolution Heat Treatment & Aging along with Preheat Applications specifically for Forgings- follow this link for a .pdf of our print brochure:  http://www.secowarwick.com/thermal/furnacesforforging.pdf
Case StudyAlcoa Cleveland Slat Conveyor Preheat Furnace
Case Study Using Finite Element Analysis to predict temperature profiles in aluminum plate
Maintenance TipsMetal Minutes Maintenance Tip Archive for aluminum equipment.
Common Solution Heat Treat Process Definitions Process Definitions courtesy of ASM International :
  • Solution Heat Treatment is heating an alloy to a suitable temperature, holding at that temperature long enough to cause one or more constituents to enter into solid solution, and then cooling rapidly enough to hold these constituents in solution.
  • Precipitation Hardening is hardening caused by the precipitation of a constituent from a supersaturated solid solution.
  • Aging or Ageing  is a change in the properties of certain metals and alloys that occurs at ambient or moderately elevated temperatures after hot working or a heat treatment or after a cold working operation.  The change in properties is often, but not always, due to a phase change (precipitation), but never involves a change in chemical composition of the metal or alloy.
  • Artificial aging is aging above room temperature.

 

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