SECO/VACUUM News

SECO/VACUUM, a SECO/WARWICK Group company, secures an order for a large pit gas nitriding furnace from a North American customer

This will be one of the largest pit furnaces that SECO/WARWICK has ever built.

(Meadville PA, March 2, 2021)

The customer chose SECO/VACUUM (SVT) because of the Group’s extensive experience and industry leadership in gas nitriding and ferritic nitrocarburizing process development, its R&D capabilities and its local North American support.

Pit Nitriding for large or dense loads

SECO/WARWICK Group offers gas nitriding furnaces in a variety of standard styles and models, including horizontal front-loading retort furnaces and vertical pit-style retort furnaces. The proprietary ZeroFlow® control technology uses only ammonia as a process gas thereby reducing gas usage and gas emissions. The ZeroFlow Pit (Model VRNe) is an electrically heated pit nitriding furnace.

SECO/VACUUM’s gas retort nitriding furnaces achieve optimum results by using uniform high convection heating, precision nitriding potential and ammonia control, along with vacuum purging to reduce operating costs to process a variety of metals. Processes possible with retort technology include gas nitriding, ferritic nitrocarburizing (FNC), post oxidation, tempering, age hardening, and stress relieving.

SECO/WARWICK is one of the leading suppliers of both front loading and pit gas nitriding and ferritic nitrocarburizing furnaces. SECO/WARWICK furnaces are unmatched in quality, support and experience. With well over 50 gas nitriding units in service, SECO/WARWICK has the solution, from 400 kg loads to 7,500 kg loads.

SECO/WARWICK engineering assures the perfect furnace to match the process

SECO/WARWICK is known for its expertise and process support via our engineering consultation services, which are especially useful for captive and commercial heat treaters who are interested in adopting new gas nitriding or other thermal processes to add to their portfolios. We bring together in-house and industry experts with diverse thermal experience and process knowledge to each customer to help them solve specific heat treat equipment challenges.

Commended SVT Managing Director, Piotr Zawistowski, “I believe our team is one of the most adaptable and technically sound groups of experts in the thermal processing industry. Firms looking to add processes with which they are unfamiliar – as in this case involving a Pit Nitrider -- really appreciate our consultative approach. When the customer gets the right process capabilities and the expert tools to use it well, we all win.”


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