Charter Steel has contracted Core Furnace Systems for turn-key supply of four STC (Short Time Cycle) furnaces at the company’s Rising Sun, Ohio, coil processing and distribution facility. The installation will bring the number of STC furnaces on this site to eight.

The energy-efficient 28-tonne batch STC furnaces with be equipped with endothermic gas generators to ensure a consistent gas chemistry, low product variability and superior temperature uniformity. The furnaces will be used for spherodizing and lamellar pearlitic annealing of coiled rod and wire.

Core will also design and supply the complete control and automation package, including Level 1 and Level 2 control systems.

Installation of the new furnaces is expected to be complete by December 2005.

Core is a leader in the North American market for design and supply of heat treatment furnaces as well as other types of industrial furnaces. Core also has the know-how and in-house capabilities to provide a wide-range of automation and control systems as well as aftermarket technical sales and services.