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Nitrex Metal offers customized, up-to-date turnkey industrial heat treating installations, with process control software, start-up, training and problem-solving assistance. Every component incorporates proven technology based on an extensive R&D effort and is backed with technical, technological and end-market support.

Direct involvement in metal surface treating through our affiliated network of service centers and close relationships with licensed users has afforded us wide-ranging hands-on expertise and a thorough understanding of our customers’ needs.

Our commitment to sharing new developments in applications and equipment through the exchange of information and experience has benefited all technology users.

1. Typical turnkey Nitreg® potential-controlled nitriding installation

2. Integration and automation - NEW

- Examples of Heat treating cells - customized configuration

A typical Nitrex installation (nitriding equipment) includes:

• A modern heat treating furnace
• A computerized control system with software
• Gas generation and distribution stations
• A closed loop cooling water system
• Racking
• Turbo-cooling for rapid cooling of the load
• Environment-friendly exhaust gas neutralizing equipment

All of the above offered as a turnkey installation with full customer support world wide.

TYPICAL LAYOUT OF NITREX CONTROLLED GAS NITRIDING SYSTEM
(find the links to each element below the picture)

1. SOURCE OF PROCESS GAS (TANKS, PROCESS GAS GENERATOR)
2. GAS PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM
3. NITRIDING FURNACE 
4. TURBO-COOLING SYSTEM 
5. CLOSED LOOP WATER COOLING SYSTEM
6. RACKING
7. EXHAUST GAS (AMMONIA) NEUTRALIZING EQUIPMENT 

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AUTOMATION & INTEGRATION

INTEGRATION OF HEAT TREATING EQUIPMENT 

Today a heat treating furnace can no longer be seen as a stand-alone piece of equipment. It is part of a whole system, interconnected and working in concert with other elements of a heat treating installation, and operated by a sophisticated computer control system requiring minimal or no operator supervision.

At Nitrex, our philosophy is to deliver automated turnkey installations incorporating advanced features that provide process stability and reliability, and which ensure functional integration with the manufacturing environment.

THE MANUFACTURER’S DILEMMA

With ever rising operating costs hampering the efficiency of manufacturing, companies are finding it difficult to compete in the world marketplace. Direct and indirect personnel costs as well as plant operating costs like insurance, energy consumption and conformity to environmental regulations are growing steadily. These changes are paving the way for more rational manufacturing methods.

AUTOMATION AND INTEGRATION OF PRODUCTION CELLS

Automation solutions are increasingly used to enhance performance and productivity in order to offset these high costs. This approach can be achieved in one or two stages. The first involves integrating heat treating furnaces equipped with automated gas cabinets, fitted with atmosphere controls and a control computer system, into cells or into the production line. The second is to automate the heat treating operations, running equipment more or less continuously with little or no personnel. Both stages will effectively reduce the number of required employees, improve delivery, increase productivity and the overall efficiency of a plant by maximizing the equipment usage, thus reducing the cost per piece of the manufactured goods.

HEAT TREATING CELLS

Nitrex offers cells with three different operating modes. In the fully automatic mode all the equipment movements within the cell are entirely automated. The semi-automatic mode requires an operator to control the movements within the cell through a computer terminal. Lastly, in the manual mode, each movement is carried out by a shop employee, while only the activities within the furnaces and washers are controlled automatically.
 

INTEGRATING NITRIDING / NITROCARBURIZING TURNKEY SYSTEMS INTO YOUR PRODUCTION LINE

To this day many manufacturers are still sending parts to commercial heat treaters to have them nitrided or nitrocarburized. Others, with in-house facilities, often have their heat treating equipment in remote locations of the plant. These practices slow down the production process and increase costs.

In many cases integrating the nitriding / nitrocarburizing stage into the production line brings significant benefits such as control over quality and faster deliveries.

We would gladly discuss your production needs and provide you with our expert advice. Please contact us for more information.

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CUSTOMIZED CONFIGURATIONS TO MEET YOUR NEEDS
 

EXAMPLE 1: NITRIDING CELL WITH STAND-ALONE FURNACES

One of many possible set-ups consists of a number of stand-alone furnaces, a washer, holding stations and a double-ended charge car. In a fully automated scenario the loads are brought to and taken from the loading/unloading station while the rest of the operations are fully controlled by a plant management software.

EXAMPLE 2: MULTI CHAMBER FLOW-THROUGH NITRIDING / NITROCARBURIZING CELL

Yet another type of cell incorporates a modular, multi chamber, flow-through furnace. The furnace’s modular design allows for customized multi-stage operations.


 

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