At the beginning of the year, the schwartz heat treatment system for press hardening, which was installed at a major German car manufacturer’s site in 2009, was handed over to our customer following an extensive conversion job. With this upgrade, the furnace system now offers “partial heat treatment” capability in series production.

This converted equipment is part of a completely new production line at our long-standing customer. Since the modification, it meets the latest requirements of the press hardening market.

As part of our extensive work, the originally double-deck roller hearth furnace for operation with products carriers was converted into a single-deck line for blanks line for processing of blanks.  This has improved both the energy efficiency of the furnace and the cycle time by more than 20 %.

We have significantly reduced the furnace system's susceptibility to faults, which offers our customers even higher availability while at the same time reducing the need for spare parts.

All dismounting and remounting tasks were undertaken by our experienced service technicians on site at the customer's. The conversion itself was carried out at our subsidiary Hütte GmbH in Aachen.

We are pleased that we were able to carry out this project in close and excellent cooperation with our customer, thus enabling us to return their existing furnace system to an almost brand-new condition.