Surface's vast heat treat product line includes many batch furnace configurations to meet customer specified thermal processing and production requirements. From our signature Allcase® Batch Integral Quench Furnace to tried and proven vacuum furnace options and customized engineered products, we manufacture batch equipment to serve almost every market and any heat treat process.
Flexibility to meet daily changing requirements is the reason most industries prefer Surface heat treat furnaces. Our companion equipment allows for efficient, reliable load handling as well as integration of auxiliary processes, simple future expansion, and furnace refurbishment.
Surface offers a full line of process control systems for heat treat applications, from basic single loop controls to advanced Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. The control systems are fully integrated with equipment process and motion hardware for efficient production.
Surface offers reliable, easy to maintain, economical on-site atmosphere furnace gas generators with the latest technologies. This includes the benchmark RX® Endothermic Gas Generator, DX® Exothermic Gas Generator, and custom engineered generators.
For 50+ years, Surface has manufactured vacuum furnace equipment. Our expanding product line includes the Power Convection® Single Chamber Vacuum Furnace with 2- and 6-Bar quenching capability and the Multi-Chamber Furnace family including 2-Chamber, 3-Chamber and CloverleafTM. The VacuDraw®High Convection Vacuum Purged Temper Furnace enables high production, low-temperature vacuum processing.
Surface's pioneering achievements in combustion and generation of protective atmospheres led to the most complete line of atmosphere heat treating equipment available today, including automated atmosphere furnaces. We manufacture standard and customized equipment to meet individual processing specifications as well as industry leading atmosphere generators.
Surface manufactures customized continuous heat treat furnaces to match your higher volume production or one-piece flow needs. Our large installed base of equipment is a testament to our proven ability to design and implement for your individual thermal processing specifications. We have the ideal continuous solution to drive your business—cast and mesh belt furnaces, roller and rotary hearth furnaces, and pusher roller and tray furnaces.
The Surface furnace selection guide helps determine which one of our innovative solutions will meet your specific process and product needs. Utilizing it, you can also confirm your current furnace's capabilities. Our furnace selection guide ensures you are not only efficient in your processes but you are also producing the highest quality products.
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As the world transitions toward renewable resources and environmentally friendly manufacturing, Surface stands as a proven provider of technologies to...
Surface® has a long history with the aerospace industry and appreciates the precision heat treating required. Aerospace requires a maximum...
An American company, Surface® is proud to support the agricultural industry. Our furnaces are built to heat treat engine and...
The growing demand for aluminum products and components has highlighted the need for efficient and thorough processing of aluminum. Aluminum...
Surface® understands the high volume needs and the required quality standards of the automotive industry and the suppliers who serve...
Many applications such as gears, shafts, engine blocks and heads, brackets, racks, hand and power tools, lawn care and hardware,...
Surface® is proud to design and manufacture equipment that heat treaters have trusted for generations. Many commercial heat treaters have built...
When it comes to fasteners, we all know that we can’t get very far in this world with using something...
Surface designs and manufactures custom furnace and heat treat solutions for the production of firearms components, including barrels, clips and...
For over 100 years, Surface® Combustion has provided thermal processing equipment for the forging process. Initial forged products included items...
Gears are used in many industries including automotive, aviation, marine, agriculture, and many more. Industrial manufacturing of gears includes proper...
Surface® Combustion has earned a trusted reputation over 100 years of providing rugged, reliable thermal processing...
Surface® furnaces paired with proper quenching help ensure optimal strength with minimal distortion which is so important to hand and...
Today’s roads, bridges and other infrastructure as well as construction sites, quarries and mines require bulldozing, digging, grading and crane...
Surface® furnaces are rugged and reliable like a roughneck. Our engineers work with you to determine the right equipment to...
This fast growing market gained strength from the movement toward near net shape processing where waste materials generated by machining...
Surface® offers multiple continuous and large batch furnace designs capable of the deep case carburizing, normalizing, through hardening, nitriding and...
Surface Combustion designs and manufactures custom furnace solutions for the destruction and elimination of chemical weapons, munitions, and ordnances.
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Age Hardening
Aging
Annealing
Automated Press Quenching
Austempering
Black Oxide
Bluing
Brazing
Bright Annealing
Calcining
Carbon Baking
Carbon Restoration
Carbonitriding
Carbonizing
Carburizing
Ferritic Nitrocarburizing (FNC)
Forging
Gas Nitriding
Hardening
Heat Flattening
Homogenizing
Incineration
Ion (Plasma) Nitriding
Low Pressure Carburizing
Malleablizing
Martempering
Marquenching
Nitriding
Normalizing
Oxy-Nitriding
Precipitation Hardening
Pre-Heating
Pre-Oxidation
Post-Oxidation
Press Quenching
Purging
Pyrolysis Resource Recovery
Pyrometallurgy
Quenching
Reheating
Reheating for Press Quench
Scale Free Heating
Sintering
Solutionizing
Soldering
Solution Heat Treatment
Spheroidizing
Stress Relieving
T6 Heat Treatment
Temper
Thermal Destruction
Torrefaction
Triniding™
Vacuum Carburizing
Vacuum Heat Treating
Water Quench
The superior customer service at Surface® helps with heat treating furnace equipment maintenance, operation, and documentation such as drawings, operating instructions, and spare parts lists. We are also a great resource for rebuild and retrofit services such as rebricking, alloy replacement, and controls upgrades. Our troubleshooting talent is very useful when the issue is not clear. Contact customer service for any of your ongoing heat treat furnace system needs and heat treat furnace repair.
Surface’s top-notch customer service department is backed by decades of experience and historical documentation.
Surface genuine replacements parts are backed by over 100 years of knowledge and experience that only an OEM can provide.
Surface provides maintenance and upgrades by offering retrofit packages. Our technicians have the expertise to complete Machine Repair Overhaul (MRO) and furnace overhaul. We can improve product repeatability, increase productivity, and and enhance energy efficiency by reducing energy consumption of your equipment.
Surface Combustion has earned a trusted reputation over 100 years of providing rugged, reliable heat treating solutions equipped with the latest technology and backed by strong technical support.
Surface strives to build customer relationships that endure long after the initial heat treat furnace equipment purchase. When you require a thermal processing manufacturer and partner who can draw from a broad portfolio of proven designs, including pioneering atmosphere, controlled atmosphere, and vacuum products, let us show you the Value of SurfaceTM.
As a vacuum furnace manufacturer, Surface Combustion pioneered the vacuum purged tempering process and has a wealth of data and applications to draw upon for your unique situation. We do it for our customers to have the confidence level that our technology will work every time. This innovative and versatile style of furnace is a first in industry.
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Review this useful book to discover the best atmosphere for your application. It is not just the furnace that makes the best result, but the recipe used to create that result. The generation, application, and proper control of the treating atmosphere is a critical component to your success. Please see more in our comprehensive guide.
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