SECO/WARWICK History

Then - Introduced in 1924, the "Two-In-One" Furnace could be used for both heat treating and melting a variety of metals

Now - High Pressure Quench Vacuum Furnace Technology provides a unique solution for for high, medium and low alloy hot and cold working steels, high speed steels, oil hardened steels - AISI type 01, 02, 06, 07, 4140, 4340, etc. - low pressure vacuum carburizing, tempering, solution heat treating, super alloys, brazing and sintering.

SECO/WARWICK's story begins at the turn of the century with the Chicago Flexible Shaft Company who manufactured non-electric horse clipping machines, sheep shearing machines, hand clippers and flexible shafts used to drive grinders and drills. The furnace part of the business developed from the necessity to harden the blades and combs used in the shearing tools to give them a reasonable service life. For the first ten years, the sales of heat treatment furnaces were the result of a customer-manufacturing convenience. The company was in the center of a large number of small manufacturing plants on the near north side of the Chicago River. Bicycle-making firms, cutlery houses, packaging plants, building hardware establishments, auto accessory parts makers, wagon builders, harness equipment fabricators, and machine shops were in the habit of asking the company to design, to improvise, or adapt a heat-treating process for their particular needs. The company would welcome the opportunity to experiment until they came up with an improved or more adaptable model for their neighbors.

From these humble beginnings, a furnace division was created that has prospered in a climate of change and dynamic industrial progress. As we continue to grow and evolve as a company, we remain committed to our core values of delivering the finest quality heat processing equipment in every market segment that we serve.

1900 - Chicago Flexible Shaft's first heat-treat furnace manufactured.
1946 - Chicago Flexible Shaft changed their corporate name to Sunbeam Corporation
1958 - Sunbeam Corporation expands the furnace business by acquiring the assets of Westinghouse furnace division. Sunbeam formed a new company, Sunbeam Equipment Corporation, and moved to Meadville, Pennsylvania.
1982 - Allegheny International purchased all of Sunbeam Corporation.
1984 - Sunbeam Equipment Corp. and Warwick Furnace Company were purchased by executives of Sunbeam. A new corporation was established by combining the assets of SECO (Sunbeam Equipment Corp.) with Warwick creating SECO/WARWICK Corporation.
1991 - SECO/WARWICK created a joint venture company with Trans-Vac in Poland
1994 - SECO/WARWICK USA became ISO 9001 Certified
1999 - SECO/WARWICK Ltd., Poland achieves ISO 9001 certification.
2002 - SECO/WARWICK purchases the intellectual property of Camlaw Ltd.
2003 - SECO/WARWICK Ltd. acquires ownership of ELTERMA S.A.
2003 - TÜV America awards SECO/WARWICK USA ISO9001:2000 Certification
2004 - Establishment of SECO/WARWICK Moscow sales office
2005 - SECO/WARWICK Ltd. becomes the parent company of SECO/WARWICK Corp. USA
2006 - SECO/WARWICK enters into a Joint Venture agreement with Tianjin Kama Electric Thermal Equipment Manufacturing Co. Ltd. to form SECO/WARWICK (Tianjin) Industrial Furnace Co., Ltd.
2007 - SECO/WARWICK S.A. is established; the SECO/WARWICK Group includes SECO/WARWICK S.A. as world headquarters (Poland), SECO/WARWICK Corp. (USA), ELTERMA S.A. (Poland), andSECO/WARWICK Industrial Furnace Co., Ltd. (China)
2007 - SECO/WARWICK S.A. Signs Strategic Alliance Agreement with Retech Systems LLC in Ukiah, CA (USA)
2007 - Partnership formed with Allied Furnaces (India)

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