CAN-ENG Furnaces International Limited has been contracted to design, manufacture and commission an automated system for the heat treatment of lightweight aluminum automotive structural components for a Tier 1 automotive component provider with installation locations in North American and Asia respectively. These high volume continuous heat treating systems include a solution furnace with rapid quench discharge capabilities and an artificial aging oven utilizing natural gas heating systems. Both installations include CAN-ENG’s proven Precision Air Quench (PAQ ™) Technology. The PAQ™ system integrates a unique combination of air handling technologies and computational fluid dynamic modeling which uniformly delivers conditioned quench media leading to repeatable and uniform property and dimensional results. The systems will be installed with CAN-ENG’s Level 2 automation system;which integrates product recognition, tracking and processing parameter historical trending capabilities. Quench parameters are developed for each component configuration and once validated can be integrated as part of the product recipe.
Aluminum structural component heat treatment systems along with a wide variety of other ferrous and non-ferrous heat treatment systems are made available by CAN-ENG Furnaces International. CAN-ENG Furnaces International is a global provider of state-of-the-art thermal processing systems and is a significant
supplier to automotive community through direct and tier supply. For further information please contact Tim Donofrio – Vice President, Standard and Aluminum Products at tdonofrio@can-eng.com.