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July 7, 2026
When we started writing about the development potential for commercial quenching plants by 2035, I neglected to emphasize the position of ISO 20431. Whether it is
July 3, 2026
Fig. 1 – Pillars of strategic development for commercial heat treaters Fig. 2 – Automotive ecosystem in CZ The last chapter I want to write about
July 1, 2026
Fig. 1 –Pillars of strategic development for custom hardening plants At the second level, rated as a stable pillar of heat treatment, is aerospace. This is
June 29, 2026
AM technologies have enormous development potential, but they come up against a supply chain where securing any part means logistical hell (AM → HIP → HT
June 28, 2026
Nuclear energy is a closed sector. The main players like Škoda JS, Doosan Škoda Power, Rolls-Royce SMR, Westinghouse, Framatome, EDF, Rosatom have their own equipment: they
June 26, 2026
The Defence & Military sector has great growth potential, but it also has its pitfalls. The logic of this industry, at least for now, differs from
June 24, 2026
I published an infographic on Linkedin (see Fig. 1) on the topic of ECM ICBP Flex. However, I found that my view is not entirely identical
May 7, 2026
If you order a vacuum furnace today, you may have a problem. This furnace can be made not in Europe, but in China. This is not
May 7, 2026
It is interesting to observe how everyone is rushing into military production. But I’m not sure if they have any idea what they’re getting into. When
January 25, 2026
So I started to look into quality management systems in hardening plants, especially from the perspective of Contract Review. A term that not everyone knows, but
June 20, 2025
Yesterday I attended an online lecture by Ms. Lenka Mynářová on the topic of EU Legislation. The whole thing was organized by Czechimplant and Jana Vykoukalová
July 10, 2024
At the NCK general meeting, there was an interesting presentation by doc. Ing. Petr Blecha Ph. D from VUT in Brno regarding the new EU
June 3, 2024
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, Galvamet has updated their Nadcap certificate. Anyone who knows what this is about must laugh. And what is the result?
April 27, 2024
So, I got lost again where I shouldn’t have been. Among the Women of the North. Yes, there were only women there, and apart from the
April 3, 2024
I’m two years late, but who doesn’t have one today. In 2022 the Nadca 207 update came out, but only now I managed to update
December 10, 2023
I ran into a problem. A reputable supplier of low-pressure carburizing furnaces has supplied a brand-new vacuum furnace for this technology, but without the default TUS.
November 11, 2023
As usual, Galvamet has surprised again and this certificate is just another step forward for the target state. My sincere congratulations to everyone in Vsetín. Jiří
September 27, 2023
In July of this year, the new standard ISO 20431:2023, concerning heat treatment and quality assurance, was published very discreetly. Seemingly similar to CQI-9, in fact
June 11, 2023
As I wrote in the last blog, periodically doing SAT and TUS is a obligation. But it costs money, and a lot of it, so we
June 4, 2023
At the Heat Treatment Forum in Wroclaw, Janusz Kowaleski from Ipsen had an interesting presentation on “Choosing the right vacuum furnace”. All aspects of the selection
January 31, 2023
Last year, a revision of AMS 2750 G was issued for the pyrometry of heat treatment furnaces. Because Nadca 207, rev. 2022 says that in order
November 17, 2022
(Valid for Czech Republic only) Each commercial heat treater assumes certain obligations from defective performance, resulting from Civil Act No. 89/2012 Coll. How it intends to
June 30, 2022
Even if I’m already packing my suitcases for the holidays, he won’t give it to me, and I have to comment. The price of electricity has
June 23, 2022
Are you looking for specifications for die casting dies at https://www.diecasting.org and can’t find it? Nadca has a new website and it is difficult to find
May 12, 2022
Even before I deal with the practical possibility of applying this simplified control of steel input quality using Nadca 207 maps for annealed structures (Fig. No.
May 10, 2022
The vast majority of tool sources producing die-casting molds do not perform an initial material quality control according to Nadca 207. The question is why this
January 17, 2022
Right from the beginning of 2022, I expanded my training portfolio with Legal aspects of heat treatment, moreover in a trilingual configuration of Czech, English and
November 7, 2021
On the side of die casting tool manufacturers, a permanent problem is that they do not consider input material control to be so important as
October 6, 2021
When I wrote in the last blog about the relationship between Nadca 207 and AMS 2750F, it occurred to me that our tool shops, which produce
October 2, 2021
Manufacturers of die casting dies should follow certain procedures under Nadca 207 to provide certain guarantees for their service life. In addition, they need a heat
April 12, 2021
From the beginning of our business we have encountered, as well as others (it was 1992 year) problems with accounting and ERP system. We started with