Aluminum Forging
Queen City Forging applies rapid Infrared heating to aluminum forgings
with enhanced physical properties: improved fatigue life,
fine grain aluminum metallurgy, and increased hardenability.
Queen City Forging uses IR heating technology to reduce energy consumption
and lower costs.
 Aluminum Forging article in the Business CourierThe Business Courier wrote about Queen City Forging's New Aluminum Forging process:"Working with the U.S. Department of Energy's Tennessee-based Oak Ridge National Laboratory and others, the East End manufacturer has developed a method of rapidly preheating aluminum for forging, using an infrared oven in place of a conventional natural-gas-fired oven. The technology not only speeds up work flow and reduces energy bills, but it also produces stronger, more-durable parts... The company is also working on a second infrared system for heat-treating forged aluminum parts. Queen City has a full-scale prototype set up at its Tennyson Street plant - the only one of its kind in the world... Queen City's infrared preheating process, however, is already in full production mode. The company has patents pending on some of the key parts of the system, but the basic infrared heating technology is available to anyone..." Reduce Costs for Aluminum Forging!"Mayer [President Rob Mayer] estimates capital equipment costs are reduced by half using rapid infrared heating as opposed to conventional heating, and operating costs are cut by roughly 20 percent at today's energy prices. Infrared heating uses electricity, which is generally more expensive per BTU than natural gas, but there's much less wasted energy with infrared..."View the entire article by Jon Newberry, Staff Reporter, in the December 7, 2007 issue of the Business Courier Field testing of this hybrid infrared system in full-scale production setup has demonstrated cost savings up to 40-50% through reduced energy consumption, increased throughput and improved consistency in the process and quality of the product. |
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Custom-Steel-Forging.com -- 
Queen City Forging uses rapid infrared heating for aluminum forgings
with enhanced physical properties: improved fatigue life,
fine grain metallurgy, increased hardenability.
Queen City Forging uses IR heating technology to reduce energy consumption and lower costs.