Last week I attended a webinar on 3D printing for medical applications. Among other things, Mr. Dalibor Vojtěch from the Institute of VŠCHT in Prague gave
The basic and always valid principle of industrial cleaning is only one: „the like dissolves and removes the like”, i.e. Non-polar (organic) contamination such as oils
Today ‘s time is really special. I have two vaccinations, we underwent Covid, so I achieved an officially recognized parameter of freedom. So, I can work
Sometimes some things happen without us wanting or anticipating them. Last year, I had some very hard discussions with TAV Vacuum about furnace programming. My goal,
Right from the beginning of 2022, I expanded my training portfolio with Legal aspects of heat treatment, moreover in a trilingual configuration of Czech, English and
My article on Nadca 207 has been published on the TAV Vacuum Furnaces website. Since I have been recommending and supporting this specification since 1999, it
An integral part of die casting dies manufacturing process is annealing. Its purpose is to relax stresses, caused both by different types of machining and by
Manufacturers of die casting dies should follow certain procedures under Nadca 207 to provide certain guarantees for their service life. In addition, they need a heat
The only heat treatment shop in CZ, with a Nadcap certificate for the aerospace industry, is Galvamet from Vsetín. Although a recovery in the aviation industry
In the first part of the heating, we achieved that the inserts are heated to a temperature corresponding approximately to the setup furnace temperature Tp =
Correct heating in a vacuum furnace has some drawbacks. Its success depends not only on the heat treater, but also on the tool manufacturer. Therefore, in
Basically, I spent my entire professional life with heat treatment of metals, either in the form of research activities within the ZEZ Prague before 1989, or
Introduction The heat treatment of the shaped insert made of 1.2343 ESU steel was ordered from the commercial heat treatment shop, vacuum hardening and tempering of
Almost every day I learn from various sources that someone is selling to someone or someone is buying a new vacuum hardening furnace somewhere. However, information
What should such a tempering furnace look like? There are two basic solutions. Retort furnace and non-retort furnace with direct batch heating. Those who want to
Any interest organization in our field has its place and space for application. The head of idea Global Heat Treatment Forum is Karol Forycki, my friend
The basic problem with managing commercial heat treatment shops is the lack of time for anything. This is usually a very narrow group of employees, who
For this year, I acquired a non-exclusive representation of the Italian manufacturer of vacuum furnaces TAV Vacuum Furnaces, based in Caravaggio near Milan. The company concentrates