Are you ready to enhance the efficiency and quality of your aluminum brazing processes? Join us for an exclusive live webinar where our industry expert, Mike Jacobs, Sales Engineer, will explore the latest advancements in aluminum brazing technology, tips for optimizing your industrial furnace performance and real-world case studies of successful brazing operations. Whether you’re
Join Abbott Furnace Mexico’s Carlos Garcia & Miguel Martel as they discuss the process & furnace overview of Brazing. The industrial furnace brazing process is a controlled method for joining metal parts, often using filler metals to form strong, precise, and consistent bonds. This process is ideal for large-scale production, complex assemblies, and high-strength applications,
Join Abbott Furnace Company’s team for a roundtable discussion about Troubleshooting Industrial Furnaces. Some of Abbott’s industrial furnace experts will answer your most burning questions about furnace troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, and emergencies. You will also learn to recognize problems early, accurately diagnose and troubleshoot them, and properly clean your furnace to ensure it runs smoothly.
A GATHERING OF EXPERTSThe 2024 Abbott Annual Brazing Symposium, taking place May 7-9 in Nashville, brought together some of the world’s foremost experts in the field of brazing furnaces, filler metals, part cleaning, atmosphere gasses and flow controls. Engineers, maintenance personnel, and industry professionals convened in The Music City to explore the latest advancements, share
The 2024 International Brazing and Soldering Conference (IBSC) was held in Charleston, SC on April 14-17. The conference was a huge success, with over 140 attendees from around the world. IBSC included a large variety of brazing and soldering technical presentations covering a wide range of industries from automotive, aerospace, defense, electronics, and the latest
Abbott Furnace Company’s team of experts discussed THE FUNDAMENTALS OF STEAM TREATING. Abbott Furnace manufactures highly efficient steam treatment furnaces for continuous steam treating. Abbott’s continuous mesh belt steam treatment furnaces provide a viable alternative to batch process methods. The steam treatment process is the controlled oxidation of metals to produce a thin layer of
Abbott Furnace Company exhibited at the 2024 AMUG Conference held at the Hilton Chicago, March 10-14. The Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) is an all-encompassing technology users group dedicated to the advancement of additive manufacturing technology with a motto “For Users – By Users.” The AMUGexpo provided a social environment to discuss the latest technology
Abbott Furnace Company’s CQI-29 Brazing System Assessment Webinar Replay Abbott’s head of Research & Development, Dr. Stephen L. Feldbauer, Ph.D., discusses key aspects of the Brazing System Assessment and answers participants questions. The AIAG CQI-29 Brazing System Assessment specifies process requirements for an organization or its suppliers performing applicable aluminum and stainless-steel brazing. Processes covered
INTRODUCTION In the realm of material science, the quest for superior and cost-effective alloys with enhanced mechanical properties is a never-ending pursuit. Sinter hardening, an innovative heat treatment technique, has emerged as a promising solution to achieve high strength and improved wear resistance in lean alloys. Understanding Sinter Hardening Sinter hardening is a heat treatment
We are pleased to announce the launch of the U.S. Battery Machine Builders, a new initiative dedicated to fortifying the U.S. battery supply chain by encouraging adoption of American-made machines and equipment. Abbott Furnace is united alongside a strong roster of U.S. battery equipment manufacturers to bolster the battery supply chain by manufacturing top-tier equipment
The steam treatment process is the controlled oxidation of metals to produce a thin layer of oxide on the surface of a component. This process can be used to provide a component with increased corrosion resistance, better wear resistance, increased surface hardness, an attractive surface finish, and, in the case of porous materials such as
Abbott Furnace’s Director of Operations, Arnie Caretti, attended Penn College’s Fall 2023 Career Fair on October 3, 2023. With over 4,200 students enrolled, we were able to meet and talk face-to-face with students about their current majors and potential career paths after college. It’s always refreshing to be able to interact with students in a
Employees from both Abbott Furnace and Abbott Furnace Mexico conducted a two-day training at a customer facility in Mexico on September 12th and 13th. Over the course of the two days, topics of discussion ranged from Brazing Fundamentals to Furnace Troubleshooting to Hands-On Training on the plant floor. Contact us for more information and to
Abbott Furnace Company hosted a tour of its facilities on September 28th for staff, instructors and Electrical and CADD students from Triangle Tech Dubois. Guests were broken into smaller groups for the tour and were also given the opportunity to hear from professionals in their fields of study. We thank everyone that came to visit!
Abbott Furnace Company manufactures continuous belt sintering furnaces used in the powder metal industry. Sintering is a heat treatment applied to a powder compact in order to impart strength and integrity. The temperature used for sintering is below the melting point of the major constituent of the powdered metal material. Abbott Furnace Company designs and
Abbott Furnace Company hosted its 6th Continuous Furnace Brazing Symposium at Fiesta Americana in Aguascalientes, Mexico from August 8-10, 2023. The two-and-a-half-day symposium featured 13 different technical presentations offered by experts in their specialized fields representing a variety of companies. While including a virtual component in addition to the live presentations, nearly 50 attendees participated
Abbott Furnace Company exhibited at the PowderMet2023 Annual Conference held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, June 19-21, 2023. PowderMet is the premier event of the Americas on powder metallurgy and metal additive manufacturing. This event has a strong focus on the technical papers and presentations that are given throughout the schedule. As part of
Abbott Furnace Company exhibited at the Rapid + TCT conference held at the McCormick Place in Chicago, May 2-4, 2023. This event is “North America’s largest and most influential Additive Manufacturing event.” Rapid + TCT by the numbers: 31% of the audience are new to adopting additive manufacturing technology. 41% have already invested in additive
Metal Injection Molding was the first technology to allow the rapid production of complex shapes. This familiarity with complexity has made Metal Additive Manufacturing an excellent fit with many MIM shops. Binder Jetting has moved to the forefront of additive manufacturing because of its ability to print materials that cannot be joined through a melt-based
We are pleased to announce that as a continued commitment to our valued customers, Abbott Furnace Company has recently completed the necessary steps to maintain accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025:2017. This accreditation allows Abbott Furnace to continue providing accredited calibration services to our many customers requiring this level of service to satisfy their automotive quality requirements. During
It’s no secret the world is transitioning from using internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric vehicles (EV) in various forms of transportation. There is a push to replace power generation by fossil fuels with the use of renewable sources to make electricity. High demand for battery materials exists to be used for Li-ion, LFP, NMC,
Join some of the world’s experts in the brazing of carbon steel, stainless steel, brass, and aluminum. Abbott Furnace Company’s two-and-a-half-day symposiums cover brazing fundamentals, filler metals, joint design, troubleshooting, and the new AIAG CQI-29 – Brazing Special Process Assessment. Our symposiums are ideal for brazing engineers, maintenance personnel, product designer, and anyone involved in
The new AIAG CQI-29 Brazing System Assessment specifies process requirements for an organization or its suppliers performing applicable aluminum and stainless steel brazing. Processes covered are CAB, Vacuum, Flame, and Induction brazing, and contain requirements for part print, control plan, braze quality inspection & reports, parameter documentation, maintenance records, sustainability, process monitoring, fixturing and tooling, and thermal management.
Abbott Furnace Company’s own Amy McClain was recently featured in the International Journal of Powder Metallurgy’s APMI Member Spotlight section.
Congratulations to Dustin Yetzer who has been elected to the Powder Metal Equipment Association (PMEA) Board of Directors.
INDUSTRIAL FURNACE TROUBLESHOOTING Tuesday, February 7, 202311:00 AM ET Join the industrial furnace engineering experts at Abbott Furnace along with our heat treating specialists and maintenance team for a Roundtable Discussion and Q & A session about troubleshooting your industrial furnace. You’ll have the opportunity to ask questions directly to the experts and receive answers
A paper co-authored by Director of Research & Development, Dr. Stephen Feldbauer, was published in the Autumn 2022 edition of the Powder Metallurgy Review. The article reviews the compaction and sintering effects of the four commonly used lubricants in Powder Metallurgy and Abbott’s Vulcan System, which enables complete lubricant removal. Read Article
CQI-29 Special Brazing Assessment Tuesday, December 6, 202211:00 AM ET The new Brazing System Assessment specifies process requirements for an organization or its suppliers performing applicable aluminum and stainless steel brazing. Processes covered are CAB, Vacuum, Flame, and Induction brazing, and contain requirements for part print, control plan, braze quality inspection & reports, parameter documentation,
