Abbott Furnace

1068 TROUT RUN ROAD
PO BOX 967
SAINT MARYS,  PA  15857

United States
814-781-6355
http://www.abbottfurnace.com
  • Booth: 3155

Abbott Furnace is a custom industrial furnace manufacturer with over 40 years of experience designing and producing some of the industry’s most reliable and high-performing industrial continuous belt furnaces for many industries and markets around the globe. We provide solutions for the 3-D Printing, Additive, Sintering, Brazing, Annealing and Heat Treat markets among many others. We also provide preventative maintenance, service, spare parts and up-grades for most industrial furnace types.

We are privately owned and headquartered in St. Marys, Pennsylvania USA.


 Press Releases

  • Metal Injection Molding was the first technology to allow the rapid production of complex shapes. This familiarity with complexity has made Metal Additive Manufacturing an excellent fit with many MIM shops.

    Binder Jetting has moved to the forefront of additive manufacturing because of its ability to print materials that cannot be joined through a melt-based process, such as Laser Bed Fusion. It has also been recognized as one of the most promising methods of metal additive manufacturing to be able to produce at a volume that will enable additive technology to move from a boutique specialty process to a viable process for large-scale manufacturing.

    In the past, the sintering step of the binder jetting process was done in a vacuum furnace. It was thought this would allow the producer to move into the market in a more competitive position of cost and flexibility; however, recent developments in continuous sintering furnaces have proven this to no longer be true. Lower capital costs, maintenance costs, operating costs, and better quality are now available from a continuous system that allows the manufacturer to move to high-volume production. During this webinar, we will compare these technologies and discuss the nuances of each.

    Click the following link to listen to the presentation by Steve Feldbauer, Ph.D., Abbott Furance's Director of Reasearch & Development.

    https://abbottfurnace.com/metal-injection-molding-mim-webinar-replay/


 Products

  • Binderjet Sintering Line
    Sintering and Debinding...

  • Choosing the best sintering technology is key to controlling quality, repeatability, and cost of ownership. The materials being printed will typically determine the design of the equipment. Materials that sinter below 1150OC , such as carbon steel and aluminum, use a wire mesh belt furnace. Other materials, such as stainless steel, are sintered on a pusher furnace because the life of the wire mesh belt will be very short at these elevated temperatures.

    Likewise, the atmosphere in the sintering furnace must match the needs of the process. An easily reduce oxide, such ae iron oxide, does not require the same amount of hydrogen that is needed to reduce the oxides of chromium.

    Decades of research and experience have provided the basis for this innovative approach to the debinding and sintering of binder jetted products. Temperature uniformity, atmosphere composition, and atmosphere flow characteristic are key variables that are critical to the development of the final density and distortion of printed components.

    In a batch system, the center of the load sees a different heating and cooling cycle than the surface of the load because the heating and cooling are only presented to the load on the outer surfaces and must diffuse into the center of the load.

    A continuous process has many independently controlled heating and cooling zones along the part’s path of travel. This provides each part with the same heating and cooling profile. The result is a more uniform part to part.

    The simplicity of the continuous furnace provides a lower cost of ownership. Likewise, as the need for higher volume production grows, only a continuous furnace will provide the cost-effective quality at the high production rates.

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