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Electron Beam Melting
Electron Beam melting provides the user with a proven refining technology for a wide range of speciality metals. Retech's extensive experience with the process includes the design and manufacture of the world's largest Electron Beam furnace. The range of our Electron Beam equipment ranges from laboratory to production capacity units.

Electron Beam hearth furnaces built by Retech are qualified for the production of rotating grade Titanium alloys for aircraft engine parts. Electron Beam melting is suited for a wide variety of other applications including refining and consolidation of refractory and reactive metals.

Process Applications:

Hearth melting
Scrap consolidation
Ingots
Slabs
Drip melting

Material Applications:

Titanium & Titanium alloys
Tungsten
Niobium
Tantalum
Platinum
Palladium
Zirconium
Iridium
Nickel & Nickel-based alloys

Advantages:

Wide size range - typical 60 to 900mm diameter (2.5 to 36” ) ingots, as well as jumbo slab production
Multi-gun power from 80kW to 5000 kW
Systems equipped with single or multiple gun positions
WinBeam® computerised beam controller offers user-friendly furnace automation
A variety of feed material configurations are accepted, such as scrap, sponge and bar
Offers significant cost savings by eliminating electrode welding and primary consumable arc processing
Electron Beam cold hearth melting proven to eliminate high density and low density inclusions in titanium alloys

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Vacuum Furnace Engineering Ltd - The Specialists in Vacuum Furnace Technology