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SECO/WARWICK Will Deliver a Furnace to Support the Pharmaceutical Industry

Adamus, a European manufacturer of punch tools and spare parts for tablet presses, capsule presses and blister machines used in the pharmaceutical industry, has ordered a Vector vacuum furnace to efficiently heat treat a wide range of punches used in tablet production.

The fourth vacuum furnace for Adamus

The Vector vacuum furnace on order solves the partner’s challenge to grow production in order to meet the increased demand for the number of punch hardening processes for tablet production.

“Adamus contacted us for the fourth time. This time, the Partner wanted to replace an older, inefficient vacuum furnace with oil hardening, with a modern, more ecological and more economical vacuum furnace with gas hardening. Vector will perfectly meet these needs. It is compact, so it will not take up much space, it is efficient and ensures process purity, which is extremely important in the pharmaceutical industry,” says Maciej Korecki, Vice President of the Vacuum Furnaces Segment at SECO/WARWICK.

The Vector for Adamus is equipped with numerous options, including convection, directional cooling and isothermal quenching, which increase the solution’s efficiency and effectiveness. Thanks to the inverter control, we can switch on the optimal cooling power in the appropriate process segment. Another big advantage is low heat loss and good temperature uniformity in the graphite heating chamber, which is resistant to rapid wear and is easy to use and service.

Precision solutions for the production of equipment used in the pharma industry

The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most demanding in terms of standards, procedures and technical parameters, which must be met by equipment involved in the production process. Complex components used in the pharmaceutical production process must be characterized by excellent workmanship and precision results. These finished components are integral to the manufacturing process, ultimately determining not only the final medical product, but also human health and life. Therefore, manufacturers of stamping tools, tablet presses, capsule machines and other machines used in the pharmaceutical industry, when choosing solutions for their hardening plants, are guided primarily by quality, reliability and experience.

“The essence of our work is to listen to the Partner’s needs and propose solutions which will fully meet them. SECO/WARWICK vacuum solutions are designed in such a way that we can equip them with various options without the need to modify the main structure. Thanks to this, the flagship Vector vacuum furnace can work for the aviation, medical, tool and automotive industries,” said Paweł Okińczyc, Sales Engineer at SECO/WARWICK.

The Vector vacuum furnace solves problems

Vectors are very universal furnaces performing many complex processes. Graphite insulation and wide heating elements ensure long-term and reliable equipment operation in industrial conditions. The following heat treatment processes can be carried out in Vector furnaces: brazing, annealing, hardening, saturation, aging, tempering and degassing. During cooling, the cooling gas circulation, using a nozzle blowing system, optimizes and ensures uniform cooling of the processed elements. This is extremely important when processing elements for such a demanding industry as High-Tech.

As the Adamus representative said, “the challenge is the constantly growing demand for our punches and spare parts used for units operating in pharmaceutical plants. However, it is important to choose well-thought-out solutions which will be used in many processes when expanding the machine park, ensuring the highest quality of production.”

Vector vacuum furnaces enable very efficient and clean heat treatment processes such as brazing and annealing in high vacuum, ensuring the highest protection of the surface details of high-alloy steels, thanks to the use of a graphite heating chamber and a diffusion pump. A big advantage of this design is the ability to carry out very efficient hardening processes thanks to the use of high pressure cooling gas. Each furnace can be adapted to the partner’s requirements, creating a product tailored to their needs.