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Edward Lowton
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High vacuum heat treatment
28 January 2015
Wallwork Group has expanded and upgraded the vacuum heat treatment department at its Birmingham facility. Housed in a newly refurbished building, supported by a grant from Birmingham City Council, the department provides high-vacuum heat treatment, using modern furnaces of different capacities for flexible, cost-effective thermal processing of both high volume and small batch metal components.
There are seven vacuum furnaces on site ranging in load capacity from 250Kg to four tonnes. This includes one of the largest furnaces in the UK accepting loads of four tonnes and over 2.7 cubic metres.
Each furnace is scheduled at pre-determined intervals for Temperature Uniformity Survey (TUS) to ensure that it complies with the relevant System Accuracy Test (SAT) as part of Wallwork’s continuing compliance to specifications in the aerospace and automotive industries.
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