{"id":57,"date":"2026-06-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/induction-or-arc-choosing-a-melt-route\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:00:00","slug":"induction-or-arc-choosing-a-melt-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/induction-or-arc-choosing-a-melt-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Induction or arc: choosing a melt route for small-batch alloys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For batches between 50 kg and 12 t, our four induction furnaces give us tighter chemistry and less oxidation loss than an arc route. The trade-off is refining: an induction furnace melts what you charge it with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When induction wins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clean, sorted scrap and virgin alloys, grades such as 42CrMo4 with narrow chromium and molybdenum windows, and short runs where changeover time matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When we send a heat elsewhere<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Very low sulphur or phosphorus limits, or pour weights above 12 t. In those cases we buy ingots from a partner arc shop and forge or machine them here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why we melt small batches of alloy steel in induction furnaces, and when an arc furnace route makes more sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-melting-casting","tag-42crmo4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}