July 8, 2025
So, we have a new experience, a blackout. A disaster for every heat treater. And for foundries or glassworks? It can’t possibly be worse. And what
June 26, 2025
Together with AI, we played the carbon tax. The aim was to find out how much more expensive heat treatment will be and what the advantages
June 20, 2025
Yesterday I attended an online lecture by Ms. Lenka Mynářová on the topic of EU Legislation. The whole thing was organized by Czechimplant and Jana Vykoukalová
May 28, 2025
I’m starting to have a problem with time. My activities are multiplying exponentially. On Friday evening, someone calls me from an unknown number. I pick up
May 17, 2025
The Institute for Politics and Society organized a conference on Tuesday on the topic of Energy 2035+. You can find more about the program here (https://www.politikaspolecnost.cz/aktualne/nextgen-energetika-2035-2/)
May 13, 2025
So the court banned Dukovany from us… we all thought it was almost finished, but it’s all for nothing. I almost feel like the EU has
April 15, 2025
I don’t know what the current state of electricity prices for industrial production is on the market, but I do know that ČEZ Prodej billed me
April 13, 2025
I received an electricity bill from ČEZ Prodej. To be honest, ČEZ is no longer my supplier. Two days after receiving the invoice, I found another
January 21, 2025
This year has not started well for us. Lukáš Kovanda published data on gas and electricity prices between the US and Europe on his LinkedIn (Source:
September 21, 2024
From May 2024, there is a new subsidy program for energy savings, and I expected an investment boom in heat treatment operations, aimed at this area
May 20, 2023
As I have long recommended this technology for testing thermal fatigue stress relaxation for die casting dies, I was a bit unhappy as I could not
May 13, 2023
With natural gas prices in mind, there is a lot of talk about hydrogen. Of course, about green, no other colour is worn anymore. But how
May 10, 2023
So, they agreed to the FIT 55 package, which means that we will reduce emissions by 55% by 2030 compared to the current state. Since a
March 11, 2023
With effect from January 1, 2008, Act No. 261/2007 Coll., on the Stabilization of Public Budgets (ZSVR), introduced so-called energy taxes into the Czech tax system
February 14, 2023
Oven manufacturers are also interested in saving electricity. Here is a link to the new TAV Vacuum Furnaces blog. HOW TO OPTIMIZE THE ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF
January 24, 2023
Effect of heating type Both for hardening and for tempering, we have to heat the parts properly. The entire heat-up cycle has 3 phases. Heating, equalization
January 21, 2023
In this new t blog, I no longer wanted to deal with “technical consumption” and wanted to move on to that “technological consumption“. But somehow it
January 16, 2023
So glory, we already have the measurements… we can proceed further. For all types of furnaces, it is necessary to remember that we cannot influence the
January 10, 2023
Let’s be honest. It’s too late to start now. But if we still have a chance of a year’s delay, because based on God’s inspiration we
January 5, 2023
On the web, I found a lecture by Mr. Jan Bureš from Patria Finance, given for the Foundry Association in the fall of last year.
December 19, 2022
https://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/arena/monitor/EU-se-dohodla-na-zprisneni-hlavniho-nastroje-na-ochranu-klimatu-723769 An article regarding the EU agreement on charging CO2 emissions for companies was published today in the Parliamentary Papers. What does it mean? In the
December 9, 2022
So I’ll hang up again… Well, to tell you the truth, I expect the apocalypse. Compared to January 2021, Eurostat records an increase in industrial prices
November 20, 2022
That’s how the new ČEZ price list for electricity from January 1, 2023 came home to me. So far, I’ve only read various reports about
November 9, 2022
I found an interesting presentation on the web presented by Ipsen and a comparison of the carbon footprint between classic multi-purpose carburizing furnaces, continuous furnaces, and
September 20, 2022
In the first part, I detailed the types of cars for electromobility from an article on Linkedin. There would be nothing strange about that. However, in
September 19, 2022
Interesting data for electromobility was published on Linkedin. There was a significant year-on-year increase in sales of cars with an electric motor or plug-in hybrids. This
August 30, 2022
The Moravian Aviation Cluster, together with the Plastics Cluster and the National Cluster Association (NCA), issued the following call to Prime Minister Petr Fiala and Minister
August 22, 2022
An interesting article was published on HeatTreatToday, the view of two renowned people from the field of heat treatment on the use of green hydrogen for
July 31, 2022
The energy crisis is probably the main topic of today. Although gas-fired furnaces are cheaper to operate, under the pressure of external events, their era seems
May 15, 2022
The “H2 Forum 2022” was held in Berlin on May 4 and 5, in person and at the same time via video conferencing. The theme was
May 13, 2022
I don’t know if you noticed, but a very interesting article on gas prices was published on HeatTreatToday. You can find the article here, at this
April 11, 2022
An old-new topic, however very current. According to Česká spořitelna’s analysis, it is possible to count on variants where the price of energy for a commodity
February 15, 2022
What about the energies in the furnace? Do we even know how much energy we use per 1 hour of furnace operation or per 1 kg
January 9, 2022
I was thinking about how to start the new year 2022, with some wish, motive or just one sentence – a lot of health and love.
April 16, 2021
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