Northwest Heat Treating Industry News
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Nevada Heat Treating, Inc. (Carson City, NV) has purchased their third new Ipsen TurboTreater™ Vacuum Furnace from Ipsen, Inc.  The Model H5448-2Bar unit features many recent Ipsen improvements that characterize their newer furnaces.  It is cooled by a new Dry Coolers, Inc. closed-loop water cooling system.
September, 2008

 

Inland Northwest Metallurgical Services, Inc. (Spokane, WA) is currently more than doubling the size of their building facility.  Completion is expected before fall.  Inland is adding two vacuum furnaces to their facility as well to make a total of 5.  Mike Oliver has been promoted to Operations Manager according to Dan Tabish, President of  INMS.  Congratulations, Mike!  A new Dry Coolers, Inc. consolidated water
cooling pumping station will cool all of the furnaces in their new location.
September, 2008

 

Cascade Metallurgical, Inc. (Kent, WA) is increasing their atmosphere furnace capacity to handle their ever-growing business volume in that area.  Upgraded, state-of-the-art Super Systems, Inc. controls are being retrofitted to Cascades atmosphere furnace lines.
August 2008

 

Met-Tek, Inc. (Clackamas, OR)  Owner Jerry Shriner has continued to invest in the future with
the purchase of a new Beavermatic atmosphere integral quench furnace that will be installed this fall.   
The addition of another vacuum furnace brings Met-Tek's total to 3 now.   August, 2008

 

Pacific Metallurgical, Inc. (Kent, WA) has purchased neighboring Almet.  This adds aluminum heat treating capabilities to PacMet's already wide range of services. 
August 2008

 

Stack Metallurgical Services, Inc. (Portland, OR):  With increased emphasis on lean manufacturing, Stack has put Marlin Christ in charge of this area of the company.  Stack has also purchased and is in the process of installing a Super Systems, Inc. SuperData SCADA plant-wide data acquisition system.  More capacity has also been added recently to  their Vacuum, Atmosphere and Aluminum departments.  A new Ipsen H5448-2Bar TurboTreater vacuum furnace came online just in the last few months.  Another  36x48x36 size integral quench furnace has also been added along with additional tempering capacity. 
Stack also recently started up a new, consolidated Dry Coolers, Inc. water cooling pumping station for
their Vacuum Heat Treating Department. 
September, 2008

 

 

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