Press Release

June 21, 2007

Guild International selects SECO/WARWICK to manufacture gas fired strip weld annealing furnace

Guild International has selected SECO/WARWICK Corp. to manufacture a new gas-fired strip weld annealing furnace to perform a flame impingement heat treatment within a steel coil joining system for a continuous production pickling line to be installed later this year in China.

A companion unit to the Guild MES ZIPWELDER™ the gas-fired Weld-Annealer will be used to heat the weld zone of the two strip ends. The unit consists of the main frame, a two piece insulated heat chamber, combustion system and control panel. The heating chamber sections are positioned above and below the weld area of the steel strip, and are raised and lowered by pneumatic cylinders so that the burners are close to the strip for annealing and farther away for “line-run” condition.

SECO/WARWICK’s Thermal Process Team designs and manufactures a wide variety of heat treating equipment configurations with and without the addition of protective atmosphere.  Specialists in applications for automotive and aerospace components, tube and pipe manufacturing, electrical steel components and other unique and divergent applications, the Team can offer many types of quality furnace systems including roller hearth, rotary retort, rotary hearth, mesh belt, specialty box, bell and pit furnaces along with custom designed furnaces, all developed specifically to meet each user’s plant, process and energy requirements.

Visit the Thermal Process Team at http://www.secowarwick.com/thermalprocess.html

About Guild International
Since 1958, Guild International, Inc. has maintained the status of a world leader in the designing and manufacturing of coil joining and strip accumulating machinery.  Guild's equipment continues to increase productivity and yield on thousands of installations around the world - on virtually all types of coil processing lines and materials.  Our patented product line includes Zipwelders™, resistance welders, semi-automatic shearwelders, and strip accumulators including Supercoils™, Superloops™ and Continuous Coils.  Visit http://www.guildint.com/about.htm .

SECO/WARWICK Worldwide manufactures industrial heat processing equipment including heat treat furnaces, vacuum furnace technology, atmosphere generators and aluminum reverb melting and holding systems.  SECO/WARWICK provides heat treating equipment and services worldwide for customers involved with primary aluminum, aluminum recycling, automotive, aerospace, commercial heat treating, fuel cells, HVAC, electronics, lighting, medical equipment, nuclear applications and high temperature sintering.   The globally integrated organization includes SECO/WARWICK Corp. (USA), SECO/WARWICK S.A. (Poland), ELTERMA S.A. (Poland) and SECO/WARWICK Industrial Furnace Co. Ltd. (China).  The company has over 700 employees worldwide and is an industry leader in industrial heat processing equipment and processes.  More information can be found at www.secowarwick.com .

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