A new SOLO Swiss heat treatment line to Heckler & Koch

The SOLO Swiss furnace manufacturer installs an automatic heat treatment line for the German company Heckler & Koch.

The SOLO Swiss line is designed for the heat treatment of guns and pistols parts. It is equipped with a nitriding and nitrocarburizing furnace, two austenitizing, carburizing and carbonitriding bell furnaces, with a working temperature up to 1050°C, a quenching oil tank max. 100°C, a tempering furnace under N2 atmosphere, a washing machine with two tanks, a storage with 16 loading/unloading ramps, a 5-axis robot, an AXRON Swiss Technology process control and supervision. The  useful loading dimensions are about 500 mm diameter, 700 mm height for a surface of 0.19 m², a volume of 0.155 m³ and a maximum weight of a load about 300 kg.

This installation provides:

-        A load management system with remote supervision from Switzerland (for online maintenance).

-        To achieve perfect metallurgical results (no deformation, homogeneity and reproducibility of treatment).

-        An integrated and flexible production system with a wide range of treatments.

-        An increase in production capacity by addition of future modules.

SOLO Swiss – www.soloswiss.com  manufactures advanced industrial furnaces for the heat treatment of metals since 1945. SOLO Swiss offers controlled atmosphere furnaces, type batch furnaces, bell-type furnaces, retort furnaces, muffle furnaces, hardening furnaces, continuous furnaces, mesh belt furnaces, continuous furnaces with online quenching, used in variety of heat treatment processes (Carburizing, Hardening, Ecocarb, Tempering, Annealing, Austempering, Nitriding, Brazing, Carbonitriding, Sintering, Nitrocarburising, Oxinitriding, Quenching…).

Heckler & Koch  - www.heckler-koch.de are Leaders in technology, research and development of infantry weapon systems. For more than 50 years Heckler & Koch has provided small arms systems that have met the strict demands of security, police, special and military forces, within NATO and NATO allied countries.

SOLO Swiss Group contact

Ouisa Bousbain

Marketing Manager

corporate@soloswiss.com