Tube & Pipe: Quench & Temper

Quench and TemperPillar’s original quench & temper lines are still operating today. Not only are they still operating, they have 90% uptime. These units, with proper maintenance, are real workhorses for industry. high efficiency induction coils dual frequency operation ...

Tube & Pipe: Tube Coating

Tube CoatingContinuous heating for coatings / curing of tube, pipe encompasses a wide range of applications including paint, bonding, powdered coatings and galvanizing. The efficient non-contact heating results in significant energy savings and shorter line lengths than gas or ...

Tube & Pipe: Tube Bending

Tube BendingInduction heating is an ideal technology for your tube or pipe bending and forming needs. The localized heating and direct coupling into the tube or pipe minimizes the heat in the local environment, for increased operator safety and ...

Tube & Pipe: Seam Annealing

Seam AnnealingPillar's Induction heating process is an ideal technology for any of your Tube/Pipe annealing needs. A laminated coil assembly along with an appropriately rated power supply (power and frequency) provides rapid and even heating of the tube/pipe ...

Tube & Pipe: Tube/Pipe Upsetting

Pipe Upsetting Pipe Upset Induction heating is an ideal technology for your Tube/Pipe upsetting needs. An appropriately rated power supply (power and frequency) provides rapid and even heating of the tube/pipe end for maximum upsetting quality. Multiple parallel coils allow ...

Melting: Small Ferrous Systems

Small Ferrous MeltingBox Furnace Durable. Reliable. Efficient. Pillar's Mark 8 Power Supply and Steel Frame Furnace define these characteristics. The Mark 8 is the standard against which we measure all of our other products. Available in the ...

Melting: Large Ferrous Systems

Large FerrousPillar's Steel Shell Furnaces are designed to handle the toughest of foundry environments.  With its rolled steel shell, heavy-duty shunts and thick walled copper melting coil, the Pillar Steel Shell Furnace is designed to withstand many years of ...

Melting: Nonferrous Systems

MK-8 with a Lift Swing Furnace Pillar offers a variety of Furnaces for the Nonferrous metal industry, each designed to meet a specific need.  Our product offering includes small systems, designed to ...

Custom Applications: Catheter Tip Forming

Tip Forming 1Tip Forming Pillar/Cycle-Dyne has been involved in a variety of medical applications over the years including: Catheter tip forming, Welding tubing of different durometers, Hardening of needles and annealing of tubing. Our equipment is often ...

Custom Applications: Shrink Fitting

Shrink Fitting Shrink fitting is often used to replace conventional mechanical fasteners and fastening methods. Localized heating of the mating surface provides temporary expansion and allows slip fit assembly. The ...

Custom Applications: Brazing

BrazingInduction heating offers repeatability when brazing, soldering and joining. Direct localized heating of the braze area minimizes radiant heat to the environment or work cell. Both high volume and mixed production processes area compatible with induction for controlled repeatability, strength and quality. As in ...

Custom Applications: Bonding

Glass to Metal Bonding Glass to Metal Bonding- Increased productivity and smooth, efficient operations are hallmarks for Pillar bonding and soldering systems. Uniform heating provided by induction results in enhanced bond/cure characteristics. Plastic to Metal, Glass ...

Custom Applications: Fasteners

FastenersInduction heating offers a greater level of flexibility in fastener applications in both high and low temperature requirements. High speed - high temperature systems for hardening, upsetting and thread rolling. Low temperature applications include powder coating, adhesive patch curing and stress ...

Heat Treating: Vertical Scan Hardening

Vertical Scan Hardening Whether you need to run one part for a lifetime, or run a lifetime of different parts, Pillar’s Vertical Scanners are the choice to make. These versatile machines are designed to induction heat-treat your parts ...

Heat Treating: Horizontal Scan Hardening

Horizontal Scan Hardening For as long as Pillar has supplied heating systems, we have been supplying horizontal scanners. These installations have processed bars, tubes, and pipes, and they all have three sections: infeed, heating/quenching, and outfeed. The drive mechanism, ...

Heat Treating: Cylinder Bore Hardening

Cylinder Bore HardeningCylinder liners are hardened utilizing a scanning process with a specially designed coil and quench block designed to fit the ID of the liner. The Pillar scanning process makes the end results predictable and repeatable....

Heat Treating: Crankshaft Hardening

Crankshaft HardeningSmall engine crankshafts are statically hardened and special split coils are developed in our Detroit R&D and Commercial Heat Treat Facility to satisfy whatever hardening pattern is required. Because we are so centrally located in the center of ...