New Custom Engineered Box Furnace for Heat-Treating Rocket Parts
September 1, 2016
Furnace in production in the SECO/WARWICK Meadville, PA manufacturing facility
Aerojet Rocketdyne has updated its West Palm Beach, FL, facility with the turnkey installation of a SECO/WARWICK custom engineered box furnace for brazing and heat-treating rocket parts and assemblies. The various rocket engines sealed within Aerojet Rocketdyne's retort can weigh up to 5,000 pounds per load, including the retort.
This unit replaces an older furnace, improving the overall operation with new technology that makes the furnace easier to control with economical operation and with improved temperature uniformity.
- The new control system was developed with Aerojet Rocketdyne and adjusted in the field in order to not only meet the customer specifications, but the operator's needs as well.
- Natural gas usage was reduced by utilizing a high velocity burner system.
- Although the original specification was to meet +/- 20 °F (Class 4, AMS-2750), the unit as installed is operating at +/- 5 °F uniformity.
Aerojet Rocketdyne is a diversified company delivering solutions for its customers in the aerospace and defense and real estate markets. The company is an aerospace and defense leader that provides propulsion and energetics to the space, missile defense and strategic systems, tactical systems and armaments areas, in support of domestic and international markets.
The SECO/WARWICK Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of heat treatment furnaces. The company supplies furnaces to customers involved with steel, titanium and aluminum production as well as aluminum recycling, forging, automotive, aerospace, commercial heat treating, HVAC/R, electronics, wind energy, medical equipment and nuclear industries.
For more information contact:
SECO/WARWICK Corp.
180 Mercer St.
P. O. Box 908
Meadville, PA 16335
814-332-8400
info@secowarkwick.com
www.secowarwick.com
Aerojet Rocketdyne
www.AerojetRocketdyne.com
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