December 22, 2025

Tesla Aluminum Recycling

Elon Musk continues to amaze. The fact that he flies into space is already taken for granted, and I have the impression that we are moving
November 17, 2025

Will we be lucky?

The world of GIGA casting is constantly evolving and has its own information channels. One of them is this website https://www.industryarsenal.com/ Here you can read that
November 13, 2025

Foundry sheets 3/2025

Great news, the presentation from the Holeček conference on Giga Tools for Giga Casting has been published. Many thanks to Ms. Ing. Barbora Bryksí Stunová, Ph.D.
August 10, 2025

Heat treatment of GIGA dies for GIGA Casting

Lecture given at the Holeček Conference 2025, Jiří Stanislav, Ing., CSc.,  JST Consultancy, Liberec, stanislav.jirka@gmail.com Keywords: heat treatment, hardening, tempering, Nadca-207, Abstract: Recently, there has been
July 4, 2025

Where are we going ..?

An interesting article was published in The Monty, an interview with Marco Baretti from TAV Vacuum Furnaces. His role is as Director of Marketing Strategy. The
June 30, 2025

Vacuum Brazing

News are coming that always surprise me too. Janusz Kowalewski published statistics on the use of vacuum furnaces for the US aerospace industry. Brazing is in
January 27, 2025

Holeček conference

Two years ago, I first mentioned the issue of GIGA casting and heat treatment of dies for this purpose at a conference of the Czech Heat
January 21, 2025

TAV Vacuum Furnaces celebrates 40 years on the market

TAV is celebrating 40 years in the vacuum furnace market this year. A wonderful anniversary and I am happy to celebrate it with them. So big
November 24, 2024

TAV Vacuum Furnaces a Galvamet, life in harmony

On Facebook profile, Galvamet presented a few photos with the new furnace, it’s a joy 🙂 https://www.facebook.com/share/p/WqWKYo1g3aiqtfwg/ and for those who don’t have Facebook, a few
November 8, 2024

To jump at TAV

I switched to TAV for work reasons. On the one hand, to participate in the acceptance of the furnace by the customer, on the other hand,
October 27, 2024

Italian quality

Perfect Ferrari or Lamborghini cars are inherently part of Italian culture And what about Italian vacuum ovens? Vacuum furnace for tempering and annealing – Ferrari type
May 27, 2024

How many GIGA vacuum furnaces will be needed?

  Fig. 1: Production of passenger cars by 2023 [1] I am personally very attracted to GIGA casting. On the one hand, because part of my
May 13, 2024

GIGA furnace for GIGA Casting

Questions are starting to multiply, where is the furnace that can quench the inserts for GIGA dies. So this is the beauty: And what are its
February 5, 2024

Giga casting a Giga dies III

From the previous blog, it is clear that even if the pioneer of the new concept of car production is Tesla and Elon Musk, in terms
February 2, 2024

GIGA casting II

When I wrote last year after Thermoprocess in Dusseldorf about Mega and GIGA casting, I had no idea how big a problem was coming our way.
January 25, 2024

TAV Vacuum Furnaces blog – Sintering of Cemented Carbides II

An interesting article on the production of cemented carbides was published on the TAV Vacuum Furnaces blog. Here is a link to it. Link to TAV
December 23, 2023

TAV Vacuum Furnaces blog – Sintering of Cemented Carbides

An interesting article on the production of cemented carbides was published on the TAV Vacuum Furnaces blog. Here is a link to it. Link to the
December 21, 2023

PF 2024 and TAV Vacuum Furnaces

Don’t you have a TAV Vacuum Furnaces furnace yet? With the first oven you buy, you will find that you have been missing this device for
November 15, 2023

Volvo Gigafactory Košice

So I thought I was completely wrong when I prepared a lecture at a conference in Jihlava on the topic: Heat treatment of large dies for
September 12, 2023

Galvamet and 3D printing

Economizing printing with HIP technology …. that’s how we’ve already started Jiří Stanislav September 12,   2023
April 29, 2023

TAV Vacuum Furnaces invites you to Thermprocess 2023

One of the last European manufacturers of vacuum furnaces, the company TAV Vacuum Furnaces from Italy, invites you to the trade fair for thermal processing technology
March 13, 2023

How a furnace is born

March 13 , 2023 Jiří Stanislav  
February 14, 2023

TAV Vacuum Furnaces – Energy savings

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
November 4, 2022

TAV Vacuum Furnaces porfolio

Horizontal vacuum furnaces:  Vacuum furnaces for annealing and tempering: Vacuum furnaces for sintering: Vacuum furnaces for debinding:  Vacuum furnaces with cart bottom door:  Vacuum furnaces vertical: 
September 14, 2022

TAV Vacuum Furnaces

Although the dominance of vacuum furnaces from the Schmetz company still applies in the territory of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, this does not mean that
August 1, 2022

TAV – Powder Technology (2)

On the TAV Vacuum Furnaces blog you can find very interesting posts about the use of vacuum furnaces for various technologies https://www.tav-vacuumfurnaces.com/blog/68/en/powder-metallurgy-do-you-know-your-powders-part-ii- August 1, 2022 Jiří
August 1, 2022

TAV – Powder Technology (1)

On the TAV Vacuum Furnaces blog you can find very interesting posts about the use of vacuum furnaces for various technologies https://www.tav-vacuumfurnaces.com/blog/67/en/powder-metallurgy-do-you-know-your-powders-part-i- August 1, 2022 Jiří
June 14, 2022

Euroguss and TAV

  TAV was not personally present at Euroguss. After all, it was not even a trade fair for the presentation of heat treatment equipment. Even so,
April 10, 2021

TAV Vacuum Furnaces SPA

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