Vacuum melting technologies and equipment
Retech Vacuum Induction Melting (VIM) furnace equipment has proven to consistently deliver value and competitive advantage for our customers through a combination of system innovation and a focus on each customer’s specific needs. Retech’s market dominance is predicated upon intelligent design, including precise and reliable heating, recipe driven controls, data acquisition as well as effective manufacture processes. Retech’s Vacuum Induction Furnaces can easily handle a wide range of materials used in everything from automotive and consumer products to critical, high-value Equiax (EQ), Directionally Solidified (DS) or Single-Crystal (SC) aerospace parts. In fact, Retech pioneered the design and engineering of equipment used in the production of the first single-crystal turbine blades and continues to provide high-yield furnaces with low operating costs.
Retech Cold Wall Induction (CWI) furnaces, also called Induction Skull Melting (ISM), utilize a segmented, water-cooled copper crucible in place of traditional materials thereby contamination of the charge material. All of our induction furnaces can be configured to meet needs of our customers and their stringent production requirements.
Like all of Retech’s thermal processing equipment, the capability of the VIM for producing new products, in new or existing markets, is limited only by the imagination of forward thinking companies that demand improved processes and new materials to compete and succeed.