An industrial furnace is used to provide heat for an industrial process, typically higher than 400 degrees Celsius. Abbott Furnace produces continuous belt industrial furnaces for various processes and applications.
Continuous Furnaces (also known as Continuous Belt or Conveyor Belt Furnaces) carry process parts or material through the primary heating chamber for rapid thermal processing. They are designed for fast drying products and are often a great choice for medium and high-volume part manufacturing. https://abbottfurnace.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Why-Continuous-Belt-Furnaces_.mp4
Heat-treating is using rapid heating and cooling to alter the physical or chemical properties of metal or other substances. This is usually done to improve the metal’s hardness, strength, or ductility, but heat-treating can also be used to remove residual stress and increase wear resistance. Processes that rely on heat treatment include brazing, tempering, annealing, case hardening, normalizing and sintering.
An alternative method in the production of soft magnetic material is the Nautilus process – a dedicated, continuous process furnace that completes all the steps from lubricant removal through final steam treatment/curing. This process features convective heat, an appropriate delubrication temperature range of 350˚F to 1000˚F, and a separate chamber for atmospheric injection.
Learn how Abbott and ExOne have partnered to deliver high-density, repeatable results in binder jet printing and sintering 6061 aluminum and the role that our continuous furnaces, such as the Vulcan, have as an essential part of the process.https://abbottfurnace.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Binder-Jetting-6061-aluminum-and-the-importance-of-Abbotts-continuous-furnace.mp4
Lubricant removal has been one of the major problems in the production of powdered metal components. But now, there has been a paradigm shift in how they are removed.
With the electrification of our world ever-growing, the application of soft magnetic components is rapidly increasing. A novel, new approach was developed to produce soft magnetics in a continuous process that is more efficient and cost-effective.
Molded pulp (molded fiber) is a versatile multi-tasker in the world of packaging materials. Manufacturers across industries use it to protect many types of products.
PANELISTS: Dustin Yetzer – Applications Engineer Brian Smith – Applications Engineer Matt Pavlock – FieldService Manager Don Schnars – Technical Services Our furnace experts answered 14 of your most burning questions about industrial furnace troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, and emergency situations. This video will also teach you how to recognize problems early, accurately diagnose and troubleshoot …
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The configuration of equipment and engineering that goes into a furnace impact the quality of the parts coming out. Here are the basics you need to know.
Learn how to produce precise & repeatable results by carefully controlling furnace atmospheres, temperatures and air flow in industrial furnaces.
Powdered metals are used for many manufacturing applications. Our guide explains what you need to know about how they’re made and put to use.
FFJournal Senior Editor, Lynn Stanley authored a piece entitled “Impossible Mission Force” about Abbott’s partnership with The ExOne Co., a leading designer, and builder of binder jet 3D printing technology, and Ford Motor Co. to develop a continuous belt furnace that could successfully sinter binder jet 3D printed aluminum 6061 and demonstrate the equipment’s ability to …
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Redesigned sintering furnaces use convection heating and controlled oxidation to boost efficiency in delubricating soft magnetic composite compacts.
While most binder jet 3D printers sold today are paired with a batch sintering furnace, ExOne found with Abbott’s assistance that Al 6061 preferred a continuous furnace — the very type that would be advantageous in high-volume production.
Stephen L. Feldbauer, Ph.D. Abbott Furnace Company Introduction The traditional powder metal process, often referred to as “’press and sinter”, is constantly driven to change by an industry goal of entering new markets through substitution and the development of innovative products for new applications. Although much advancement has been made in tite area of compaction, …
Abbott Furnace Company has recently designed, manufactured, and installed a 6,000 SCFH Endothermic Gas Generator (Endogas Generator) at Sintergy Inc. in Reynoldsville, PA. The design of the Abbott SP-6000 generator is a modular concept with each module producing up to 6000scfh of endothermic gas. This generator brings an innovative retort design that allows a single …
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Dan Reardon, Director of Sales, was recently interviewed by Kenneth Carter for a feature article on the Thermal Processing website. Following is an excerpt and link to the full article. Abbott Furnace Company is an industrial furnace manufacturer with more than 35 years of experience designing and producing some of the industry’s most reliable and high performing …
From the IHDailyNewsBrief Abbott Furnace Company received an order for a sintering furnace from a company that specializes in manufacturing ferrous-based, powder-metal components for the automotive, agricultural and industrial markets. The electrically heated, continuous-belt furnace, which is rated at 2150°F, will be delivered in the second quarter of 2020. Abbott Furnace will design, manufacture and …
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Abbott Furnace Company’s Director of Research and Development, Stephen L. Feldbauer’s paper on Abbott’s Vulcan titled “A Review of Lubricant Removal Systems and the Latest Technology” was featured in the January 2020 issue of Industrial Heating magazine. Lubricant removal continues to be one of the most common issues in sintering. The cover featured a photo …
Mike Jacobs has joined Abbott Furnace Company as Marketing Manager. He will be responsible for managing the companies marketing strategy. Mike comes from another industrial furnace manufacturer where he worked on various furnaces for almost 15 years. He was most recently managing the company’s Controlled Atmosphere Brazing (CAB) business and the Roller Hearth product line. …
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The team at Abbott Furnace will be traveling to Phoenix later this month for the annual PowderMet conference. We are proud of our Director of Technical Sales, Dan Reardon who is Chairman of the Conference alongside Virendra Warke of Entegris, Inc. Other members of the Abbott Team are making presentations during PowderMet, they are Stephen …
Abbott Furnace Company wrapped up its Fifth Annual Mexican Continuous Brazing Symposium at the end of May in Puebla, Mexico. For two and a half days attendees heard from experts in the areas of continuous furnaces, filler metals, belts, CQI-9, furnace atmosphere generation, and atmosphere flow control, troubleshooting, maintenance and optimization, Lecturers were Penn State …
During the first quarter of 2019, Abbott Furnace Company reconfigured its’ quality management system in support of the industrial furnace instrument calibration services that we provide. The effort aligned the management system with the format and requirements of the updated ISO 17025:2017 standard. ANAB completed its assessment of Abbott Furnace in April and was granted …
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Abbott Furnace Company is pleased to announce it will be hosting its Fifth Annual Continuous Brazing Symposium in Mexico this spring in Puebla, Mexico from May 21 – 23, 2019. This training event is a unique gathering opportunity for manufacturers and suppliers to the brazing and powder metal sintering industries. It is an excellent opportunity …
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Abbott Furnace’s Director of Technical Sales, Dan Reardon, will be honored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF) at the Industry Luncheon on Tuesday, June 25, 2019, during the POWDERMET2019 and AMPM2019 conferences in Phoenix, Arizona. The award recognizes individuals who have actively served the North American PM industry for at least 25 years and, …
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Please join us for the 5th Annual Abbott Furnace Continuous Brazing Symposium in Puebla, Mexico – May 21-23 2019. Attendees will have 2 and a half days full of Furnace training, information, and more! For more information or to register to attend, contact Julianne Inzana or Dr. Stephen Feldbauer at (814) 781-6355. To learn more …
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The Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T. System) The Abbott S.M.A.R.T. System will help ease the stringent requirements that come along with heat treat standards like AIAG CQI9 and others that require data collection, and monthly or quarterly tests to validate equipment performance. The system is designed to save your team valuable time and …
Attendees from industrial furnace and manufacturing companies across the United States and Mexico gathered on November 7th and 8th in Monterrey, Mexico for Abbott Furnace’s third annual Continuous Furnace Symposium. This year’s symposium was focused on continuous furnace brazing. For two days, experts in the areas of continuous furnaces, filler metals, belts, CQI-9, furnace atmosphere …
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Abbott Mexico, the Abbott Furnace Company division serving Mexico and South America was established in early 2017. In May, Abbott Mexico completed its first industrial furnace installation at an automotive parts manufacturing company in Mexico. The installation was challenging because the industrial furnace is a very large piece of equipment that needed to be installed …
Robots are in action at the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant to safely destroy chemical weapons. After the chemical agents have been removed One of Abbott Furnace Company’s Industrial Furnaces heats the parts to 1000°rees; F to prepare the chemical weapons containers for recycling. Watch the vide above or click this link for a …
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