Nutec Bickley, Inc. Continuous Heating Furnaces For Ends and Centers

Nutec Bickley provides indexing-continuous heating furnaces for ends and centers of automotive suspension parts (leaf springs, axles, etc.) prior to forging and forming. The handling system of these units can be with chain strands, chain with cross slats, pusher systems and walking beams. This furnace technology uses the combustion products to preheat the parts at the entrance, obtaining very high thermal efficiency. These furnaces are provided in custom designs to match customer production and process requirements to perform the following process applications: End heating of leaf springs prior to rolling End heating of billets prior to forging Center heating of leaf springs