Scott Anderson Hired As Software Engineer for BeaverMatic, Inc.
Scott Anderson joins BeaverMatic Inc., as Software Engineer for its operator interface terminals and programmable logic controllers of atmospheric heat treating equipment. Scott has 27-years of program management for manufacturing companies in thermal processing, aerospace, automation, and machine tools markets. With a BSEE degree and extensive hands-on experience, Scott will concentrate on the software, ladder logic and hardware design, as well as a standardization of controls to perform with and to customers’ future heat treating expectations.
Please welcome Scott Anderson to the staff of BeaverMatic Inc.
BeaverMatic is a manufacturer of standard and custom batch and continuous equipment used world-wide in the Commercial Heat Treating, Aerospace, Automotive, Fastener, Gear, Tool & Die, and Wind-Power Industries. As a progressive family-owned company, BeaverMatic offers world-class furnace capabilities with simplified yet sophisticated designs.
WEST COAST COMMERCIAL HEAT TREATER PURCHASES BEAVERMATIC® EQUIPMENT
ROCKFORD, IL, FEBRUARY 17, 2011: Nevada Heat Treating, Inc., a technically and scientifically-progressive commercial heat treating company, has purchased a BeaverMatic® Internal Quench Furnace (IQF) and a BeaverMatic® Temper Furnace for enhanced acceleration of product development cycles in growth industries. To manage and control industry specific standardizations, Nevada places extensive emphasis on quality. Be it the capital equipment it selects or repeatedly achieving regulatory requirements, Nevada addresses quality management through formalized quality programs as being ISO 9001:2000 certified and Nadcap accredited.
Based on consistently high performance results of existing BeaverMatic® equipment installed in Nevada's plant operations, Vice President, Patrick McKenna, purchased a new BeaverMatic IQF Furnace with a work area of 30 inches wide by 48 inches long by 26 inches high for hardening 1,500 pounds of small-to-medium size parts.
A trade secret of BeaverMatic® is its "RAM" transfer system, a pull-push design, for reliably controlling a load from different zones. Unique to this furnace design is a third RAM which pushes loads from the hot zone to the quench elevator. This third RAM is located between the two existing RAMS.
As an environmentally-conscious heat treater, McKenna chooses eco-friendly products and methods to minimize their environmental impact. Therefore, when purchasing this internal quench furnace which utilizes 1,300 gallons of oil for heating and cooling, it was critical to incorporate a quench oil centrifugal filtration system.
For precision control of temperature and furnace operations, Super Systems Inc. of Cincinnati, Ohio is being used for software and process control. The 9205 controller will provide all the necessary temperature and atmosphere control. The 9205 is specially designed for complex atmosphere furnace applications using sophisticated recipe programming, Ethernet communications, built in data logging and expandable I/O to meet the most complex requirements. Complementing the process control is the SuperDATA SCADA system which will provide Nevada Heat Treat with quick access to real-time and historical data throughout the plant.
In tandem, the BeaverMatic® Temper Furnace with identical work load capacity will relieve the internal stresses and reduce brittleness of parts after hardening. BeaverMatic® constructs the temper furnace with six indirect straight thru radiant tube burners, alloy radiant tubes, and spark ignition system with a 400,000 BTU/hour total output. Its robust frame construction exceeds standard oven construction.
New Tax Law Gives BeaverMatic's Customers a Boost Heading Into New Year
In a major victory for manufacturers, President Obama signed the bipartisan tax relief and benefits package he negotiated with Congress. In addition to a 13-month extension of unemployment benefits, a one-year 2% payroll tax "holiday" and temporary extension of a host of individual tax breaks, the new law extends all of the Bush-era tax cuts for 2 years (through 2012).
The rate reduction is not the only good news for manufacturers. The new law also includes important provisions that reduce business costs and incentivize innovation and R&D.
100% Expensing - The new law enacts President Obama's proposal to increase bonus depreciation to 100% for new equipment purchased and placed in service after September 8, 2010, and through December 31, 2011.
50% Bonus Depreciation - For investments placed in service after December 31, 2011, and through December 31, 2012, the new law provides for 50% bonus depreciation. Fifty percent bonus depreciation also applies to equipment purchased and placed in service between January 1 and September 7, 2010.
Sec. 179 Expensing Increase - The Small Business Jobs Act enacted in September significantly increased Sec. 179 "small business" expensing for new and used equipment in 2010 and 2011. During those tax years, companies can expense the first $500,000 of new and used investments up to $2 million in total purchases, where it begins to phase out dollar for dollar. Please visit section179.org.
R&D Tax Credit Extension - The new law also reinstates the R&D tax credit for 2010 and extends it through 2011.
Please give us a call if you have any questions and as always be sure to consult with your tax advisor regarding how these new laws can help you specifically. [Article Source]
NEWS RELEASE BeaverMatic is Awarded Contract for Carbottom Furnace
ROCKFORD, Ill. (January 19, 2011) - BeaverMatic® Inc., a Rockford, Illinois manufacturer of industrial heat treating and processing equipment for over 50 years, has received an order for a Carbottom Furnace from Metals Engineering located in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Metals Engineering has been adding value and quality to its customer's products since 1968. As a family-owned commercial heat treater with Ted Kemen as president and owner for over 5 years, and within his immediate family for over 9 years, Metals Engineering serves the Midwest region and niche markets within a radius of 600 miles using internal quench furnaces, induction units and car bottom furnaces.
To meet a growing demand, Metals Engineering invested in capital heat treating equipment to stress relieve, anneal, and normalize various size components. According to Kemen, BeaverMatic's Carbottom Furnaces have a reputation of providing reliable performance and excellent metallurgical results that his customer's demand.
This performance proven carbottom furnace has a work load capacity of 45,000 lbs and a work area of 8 feet wide by 7 feet high by 18 feet long. The overall footprint dimensions are 14 feet wide by 49 feet long with the car extended by 21 feet 4 inches high. For storing and tracking numerous customer recipes, Metals Engineering required a sophisticated control system incorporating a multi-loop programmable temperature controller and videographic recorder capable of storing multiple recipes, real-time trending and historical data collection. The combustion system along with the control system split the furnace into multiple zones to ensure temperature uniformity while supplying a total of 3,675,000 BTU/hour output. With the workload capacity and processing versatility, this carbottom furnace is what Metals Engineering needed for handling larger components.
BeaverMatic®, Inc. manufactures standard and custom, batch and continuous equipment used world-wide in the commercial heat treating, aerospace, automotive, fastener, gear, tool, and power generation industries.
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