Industry News Mark A. Lewis Retires from Electralloy Electralloy announces that Mark A. Lewis, Melt Products Sales Manager, will
retire effective February 1, 2023. Mr. Lewis started his career at Electralloy in 1979 in Electralloy's Raw
Materials department. He later helped promote sales efforts in the pig and ingot product lines and most recently served as sales manager in for the melt products division. During his lengthy tenure, he helped navigate Electralloy through the best as well as some of the most difficult of times the steel industry has experienced. “With over 40 years of dedicated service to Electralloy and our industry
as a whole, Mark has proven to be an integral part of this organization. His hard work, commitment, and dedication are worthy of admiration,” said Tracy Rudolph, President / COO of Electralloy. “We are grateful for his loyalty and tireless work effort – all for the betterment of our customers, vendors, and fellow employees.” Please join us all in congratulating Mark as he begins the next chapter of his life in retirement.
3Es - Ecology, Economy, Efficiency - This Is How SECO/ WARWICK’s Vacuum Technologies Win The Market
This past year, SECO/WARWICK recorded a very good year in the sale of
vacuum technologies. It is becoming more and more evident that these modern solutions are gradually displacing atmospheric furnaces due to their huge production efficiency, production economy and the ecology associated with vacuum processing. In the wide range of SECO/WARWICK Group products, Vector® is by
far the most versatile vacuum furnace and the most popular product in the company's portfolio. Vector is a universal, single-chamber vacuum furnace used for annealing, brazing, quenching and tempering, as well as for low-pressure carburizing. It provides heating and cooling precision temperature control, which allows for high quality, as well as economical and efficient furnace operation. Vector furnaces meet all international standards and the requirements of many heat treatment processes. In 2022, producers from dozens of countries took advantage of the wide possibilities offered by Vector technology. The market is also increasingly choosing the Vector furnace with high-pressure gas quenching (HPGQ). This solution was used in Europe by tire manufacturer Michelin, which
purchased a Vector® compact vacuum furnace. It will be indispensable in the gas quenching process for tools in the premium tire production segment. Aalberts Surface Technologies, a top SECO/WARWICK’s customer, decided to cooperate with the Group once again. In 2022, the commercial heat treater placed orders with SECO/WARWICK on two occasions - the Aalberts Group already has 10 SECO/WARWICK solutions. This year’s contracts were related to the delivery of two vacuum furnaces to the Group’s Spanish branch - Aalberts Surface Technologies TEY, and to the expansion of the Group’s Polish hardening plant with an innovative AFT technology line based on two-chamber atmospheric furnaces. It is worth noting that Aalberts ordered the largest solution from SECO/ WARWICK portfolio, a horizontal retort furnace for high tempering with vacuum purging.
In the USA, the heat treatment of the seventh and the last module of the
world’s largest superconducting electromagnet has been successfully completed. A specialized vacuum furnace supplied by the American branch was used to implement the project. General Atomics is responsible for the project, being a part of the international ITER program.
88 ❘ February 2023 ®
Industry Mourns Michael Simmons Funeral service for James Michael
"Mike" Simmons, 76, of Oxford, will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, December 9, 2022 at K.L. Brown Memory Chapel in Golden Springs with Dr. Garry Ragsdale and Reverend Brent Thompson officiating. Burial will follow at Dogwood Trails Cemetery. The family will receive friends for one hour prior to the service on Friday at the funeral home.. Mr. Simmons passed away Friday, December 2, 2022 at his home with his wife and daughter by his side. He is preceded in death by his parents, Haskell Howard Simmons and Gracie Viola Kirkpatrick. Mr. Simmons was a native of
Haleyville, Alabama and a longtime resident of Oxford. He was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Alexandria. He retired from Southern Tool in 2010 where he served as Vice President and as a Chemical Engineer. Mr. Simmons was an avid Alabama football fan and loved to play golf. Survivors include his wife of 50
years, Susan Diane Lewis Simmons; daughter, Brandi Lynn Simmons; sister, Patricia Ann Cox; brothers, Gregory Simmons (Carol) and Steve Simmons (Regina); nephews.
and several nieces and
Online condolences to the Simmons family maybe sent to www.
klbrownmemorychapel.com.
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