Abbott Furnace manufactures a variety of industrial furnaces for both domestic and international industries & processes including:
Additive manufacturing is a versatile and increasingly important technology that is transforming how products are designed and manufactured.
In additive manufacturing (AM), particularly when working with metals, specialized industrial furnaces are used for processes like sintering, annealing, and heat treatment. Abbott Furnace provides heat treat solutions for the 3-D printing industry including sintering, de-binding and stress relieving. The initial primary focus markets are medical, aerospace and the automotive industry but many other markets will follow this fast-growing trend.
Abbott Furnace Company’s continuous belt process lines and furnaces are ideal for heat treating high volumes of ammunition and firearm parts as well as cutlery and tools. From load to unload, Abbott can provide the complete process line. Precise atmosphere and temperature control consistently deliver high quality uniform parts.
Annealing is commonly associated with the manufacture of steel, to relieve internal stresses that may lead to failure in service and to produce a more uniform, or homogeneous, internal structure. This process is also commonly used with various metals, glass, and other materials to make them less brittle and more workable.
Abbott Furnace Company’s annealing furnaces provide improved control over time and temperature relations to achieve desired properties in such areas as machinability, cold work (process annealing or in-process annealing), dimensional stability, as well as electrical and mechanical properties. This can be applied to ferrous and nonferrous alloys alike. These furnaces are used to heat materials at very high temperatures to change their hardness and strength properties.
Different types of thermal processing have been used in automotive component manufacturing for decades to prepare materials, parts, and assemblies for numerous applications, such as: Heat exchangers, Radiators, Oil coolers, Fuel Rails, Condensers, Charge air coolers, Evaporators, and motor components.
In these applications, thermal processes such as sintering, brazing, Controlled Atmosphere Brazing (CAB), and annealing are used to produce improved strength, stability, and other mechanical properties. Abbott Furnaces are used for processing battery cathodes and anodes, brazing cooling systems for the battery packs and various new applications.
Furnace brazing is a semi-automated process used to join metal components with a dissimilar, lower melting filler metal. It allows designs of one or multi-joint assemblies to be joined by a reproducible metallurgical bond.
Abbott Furnace Company custom designs and manufactures continuous belt brazing furnaces in both straight or humpback designs. These furnaces are used in the manufacturing process where there is a need to join simple or complex designs of one joint or multi-joint assemblies.
Abbott Furnace Company’s continuous belt brazing furnaces ensure consistent brazing results by offering superior temperature and atmosphere control.
Carbon felt requires several heat treatment processes and Abbott Furnace can provide furnace solutions for these required processes such as Pyrolysis and Carbonization among others. The growing industry needs can be traced back to the trend of lightweight and increased strength requirements in several industries like automotive, aerospace, civil engineering, military, and wind energy market segments.
Controlled Atmosphere Brazing (CAB), using a noncorrosive flux, is the preferred process for manufacturing aluminum heat exchangers of many different designs, sizes and shapes for many industries.
Abbott Furnace Company custom designs and manufactures Heat Treat Furnaces (Temper/Draw Furnaces). The process of heat treating metals involves mostly heating and subsequently rapid quenching and annealing. Abbott Furnace custom designed furnaces provide improved control over time and temperature relations for the processing of ferrous and nonferrous alloys. They are commonly used for the tempering of austenitized and quench hardened steel or iron at temperatures generally below 1300°F and hardened steel around 300°F.
Abbott Furnace Company Heat Treat Furnaces provide a reliable platform for achieving various mechanical properties during tempering, as well as reducing the residual stresses during the stress-relieving process.
High Temperature Furnaces are used in various manufacturing processes that require high-temperature heat treatments to remove binder, metal and ceramic sintering, and parts curing.
Metal Injection Molding (MIM) is an advanced manufacturing process that combines the versatility of plastic injection molding with the strength and integrity of powdered metallurgy. MIM is used to produce small, complex metal parts with high precision and excellent mechanical properties.
In Metal Injection Molding (MIM), industrial furnaces are crucial for both the debinding and sintering stages, which are essential to converting the molded “green parts” into fully dense and mechanically robust metal components. The choice of furnace affects the quality, properties, and consistency of the final product.
Abbott Furnace Company custom designs and manufactures roller hearth furnaces for a variety of applications, particularly those requiring heavy loads and high-volume capacity, long part length, and reversible or oscillating conveyance drives. Abbott’s emphasis on superior control of temperature and atmosphere management provides uniform and consistent results for these high production furnace systems.
Roller hearth furnaces are applied for a variety of common heat treatments, such as annealing, normalizing, stress relief, hardening, and tempering, as well as reheat and brazing, but are particularly suitable for multi-step processes with multiple in-line process chambers with isolation doors and purge chambers.
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 builds custom sintering furnaces around our clients’ manufacturing needs – the time, temperature, and atmosphere requirements for their specific product manufacturing process.
Abbott Furnace manufactures highly efficient steam treatment furnaces for continuous steam treating. Abbott Furnace Company’s continuous mesh belt steam treatment furnaces provide a viable alternative to batch process methods.
Tempering is a critical heat treatment process used to modify the mechanical properties of metals, particularly steel, to achieve a desirable balance of hardness, toughness, and ductility. By carefully controlling the temperature and duration of the tempering process, manufacturers can tailor the properties of metal components to meet the specific demands of their applications.
The tempering process requires precise control of temperature to achieve the desired balance between hardness and toughness in metals. Industrial furnaces used for tempering are designed to maintain consistent temperatures over extended periods, ensuring uniform treatment of the metal components.
Wire annealing is a heat treatment process used to soften metal wires, improve their ductility, and relieve internal stresses that may have been introduced during drawing or other mechanical processing. The type of industrial furnace used for wire annealing depends on the specific requirements of the material and the production process.
Abbott Furnace Company’s annealing furnaces provide improved control over time and temperature relations to achieve desired properties in such areas as machinability, cold work (process annealing or in-process annealing), dimensional stability, as well as electrical and mechanical properties. This can be applied to ferrous and nonferrous alloys alike. These furnaces are used to heat materials at very high temperatures to change their hardness and strength properties.
