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Within the heat treating industry,
Metex is a technology leader. In the last four years, Metex has invested
over 3 million dollars in new Continuous Heat Treat furnace lines
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Equipment
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Continuous Belt Lines |
Continuous Belt Lines
(includes loading, furnace, quench, wash and temper)
• Can Eng - 6000 lbs/hour
• Can Eng - 4000 lbs/hour
• Rogers - 3500 lbs/hour
• AFC - 2000 lbs/hour
• Electric Furnace Co. - 2000 lbs/hour
• Pacific Scientific Rotary Retort Furnace - 1000 lbs/hour
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| Induction
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Induction Furnace
• 4 Tocco Furnaces - 400kHz 50kW
• 2 Welduction Furnaces - 450 kHz 75kW
• Tocco - 3/10 kHz 100kW
• Pillar - 10 kHz 100kW
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| Austemper
Lines |
Austemper
• Pacific Scientific - 400 lbs/hour
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| Batch
Lines |
Batch Furnace
• Surface Combustion - 30" x 48" x 20"
• Dow Furnace - 30" x 48" x 26"
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| Laboratory
Equipment |
Scanners
• 2 Vertical CNC's
• 1 Horizontal CNC
Additional Services and Processes
• Continuous Bright Annealing - 800 lbs/hour
• Continous Stress Relieving - 2000 lbs/hour
• Batch Atmosphere Stress Relieving - 300 lbs/hour
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Metex currently runs a 6000 lbs/hour
mesh belt line, which is the largest furnace in Canada. This line
was built by Can-Eng and uses the latest furnace technologies and
software to control the process.
The WONDERWARE software trends 92
different furnace characteristics in real-time. This includes furnace
zone temperatures, furnace atmosphere, loading rates and belt speeds.
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Metex currently operates seven PLC
controlled induction furnaces which are capable of handling intricate
parts. A CNC scanner is also available for enhanced precision and
repeatability.
Induction coils are designed, developed
and customized in-house to accurately match all job profiles
Advantages of Induction Hardening
1. Localized heating of target area
2. Reduced distortion
3. Hardening the "working" area of the part only
4. Parts are allowed to have varying Metallurgical properties
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Metex is the only heat treater in
Canada with both oil and synthetic quenchant capabilities.
The advantage of synthetic quenchant
is the ability to harden lean hardenablity materials. Examples would
include weld bolts, fine grained steels and C1010 material.
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Metex is the only heat treater in
Canada which commercially operates a retory retort furnace. The advantage
of this line is the ability to case harden (carburize or carbonitride)
thin flat parts, as well as parts that nest together. |
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Metex is the only heat treater in
Canada which commercially operates a retory retort furnace. The advantage
of this line is the ability to case harden (carburize or carbonitride)
thin flat parts, as well as parts that nest together. |
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