Aluminum Mill Heat Treating Solutions
From Sow to Ingot to End Product, CEC’s Custom Engineered Furnaces Give You Quality Results
Your Mill has unique needs. We have custom solutions.
When it comes to treating aluminum extrusions, drawn wire, or rolled sheet products, no other manufacturer comes close to CEC’s depth of experience. Sows, billets, ingots, extrusions, wire or sheet spools – whatever step in the process, whatever the end product, our furnaces produce quality results year after year. Our design process is backed by proven calculation methods, advanced analysis tools, and numerous treatment process innovations that ensure your next furnace exceeds both requirement and expectation.
At Every Step in the Aluminum Heat Treating Process,
CEC Has You Covered.
Aluminum Sow Drying
Whether you need a Mobile sow dryer or a Car Bottom sow dryer, CEC will engineer and build a system to meet your product’s pre-melt process requirements and exceed your expectations.
- Built for Reliability: CEC Systems are designed to run year after year with minimal downtime.
- Reduced Cycle Times: Improved air flow and heating distribution reduce the cycle time and increase production rate.
- Enhanced Efficiency: The latest in heating and insulation technologies reduce running costs.
See our Mobile Furnaces and Car Bottom Furnaces.
Aluminum Ingot Preheating
When facing high production rate requirements, the last thing you want is an outdated and inconvenient pusher furnace slowing down your product workflow.
- Advanced Controls and Automation: CEC’s Ingot Pushers are built with state-of-the-art controls to make operating and monitoring the system a breeze.
- Efficient Design: Improved designs in insulation and door seals greatly reduce heat losses, cutting down on wasted energy.
- Superior Heating: Advanced heating and recirculation design get the ingots to temperature fast, without risk of exceeding limits.
See our Pusher Furnaces.
Aluminum Extrusion Treating
With CEC’s custom designed solutions, treating your post-extruder product can be done consistently and efficiently.
- Precision Temperature Control: High-end heating components and controllers keep the temperature just where you need it.
- Rapid Quenching: Whether spray, air, or drop quenched, the delay from discharge to quench is minimized on every system.
- Any Length Product: CEC systems can be designed to accommodate any length or size of extrusion.
See our Roller Hearth Furnaces and Drop Bottom Furnaces.
Aluminum Annealing
With the help of advanced tools such as computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer simulations, our meticulously designed furnaces with shorter heating and cooling cycles will get you the product properties you need in less time.
- Atmosphere Control: Nitrogen purging and flow control systems to keep the atmosphere content right where you need it.
- CFD Verified Airflow: Engineered airflow patterns heat part loads evenly and quickly.
- Advanced Cooling: Advanced coiling coil technology reduces cooling cycle time to increase production rate.
See our Annealing Furnaces.
