| Thermal Technology shipped six high-temperature lab
furnaces. Our customer purchased two Model 1000-3060-FP20 and four Model 1000-45120-FP30
furnaces from Thermal Technology’s Astro Division in Santa Rosa, California. The furnaces are
being used to enhance gem characteristics by thermal processing the gems before they are
cut and finished.
The furnace models mentioned previously
are part of Thermal Technology’s Labmaster Group 1000 high-temperature furnace line
of products. The Labmaster Group 1000’s are graphite heating element furnaces rated
to a maximum operating temperature of 2900° C and may be operated in vacuum, inert gas or
reducing atmospheres. Labmasters may also be supplied with refractory metal hot zones.
The furnaces supplied to this particular
customer were fitted with alumina muffle tubes which provide a hot zone for use in
oxidizing atmospheres up to 1800° C. Muffle tubes isolate the work zone and sample from
the graphite heating element to protect the heating element from oxidizing atmospheres and
prevent carbon contamination of the work sample.
Labmaster furnaces may be controlled
manually or by programmable controllers. Eurotherm, Honeywell or customer specified
controllers can be supplied on these systems. In this case Eurotherm programmable
automatic controllers were used.
Thousands of Thermal
Technology’s Labmaster furnaces
are in production and research and development facilities around the world. These furnaces
are available in standard and custom configurations to meet high temperature requirements.
Thermal Technology designs and manufacturers a wide range of high temperature systems and has built its
reputation on exceptional engineering and quality manufacturing. For more information on
our products, visit us on the Internet at http://ThermalTechnology.com/ or contact us
at the address and telephone number below. We will be pleased to provide information
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Thermal Technology will be in Booth No. 863 at the upcoming ASM Heat Treating Exposition October 12-15, 1998, in
Rosemont, Illinois. Please stop by to discuss your furnace needs.
For more information on our High
Temperature Furnace Systems contact:
Thermal Technology
Thomas C.
Clappier
Vice President of Marketing and Sales
1911 Airport Blvd.
Santa Rosa, California 95403, USA
Telephone (707) 571-1911
Fax (707) 571-8098,
e-mail: sales@thermaltechnology.com
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