Anniston, AL Facility

Our Alabama facility is dedicated to helping our clients create lighter, stronger, and tougher performing metal components. Focusing on austempering and martempering metallurgical treatments for iron and steel, our processes improve metal at the micro-structural level – providing our clients with the very best.

With comprehensive laboratory and testing facilities, Rex Heat Treat's Alabama operation gives customers a dedicated facility for product and process development. One of the toughest challenges facing a component part designer is considering alternative materials. Our experience combined with our cutting edge capabilities make us an ideal partner for component improvements and manufacturing cost reductions.

Here are some of the associated services.

Aging

A change in the properties of certain steels that occurs at ambient or moderately elevated temperatures after hot working or a heat treatment (quench aging, natural aging, or artificial aging) or after a cold-working operation (strain aging).

Annealing

Annealing is used to induce ductility, soften material, relieve internal stresses, refine the structure by making it homogeneous, and improve cold working properties.

Austemper

A thermal process that produces significantly tougher parts than conventional heat treating. Used in many applications where distortion is critical. The resultant microstructure is very tough, exhibiting 15% higher toughness than a quench & tempered part of the same hardness.

Mag Particle Inspection

A non-destructive testing (NDT) process for detecting surface and subsurface discontinuities in ferroelectric materials such as iron, nickel, cobalt, and some of their alloys.

Marquenching

A form of isothermal heat treatment applied after an initial quench typically in a molten salt bath at a temperature right above the "martensite start temperature".

Stress Relieving

Heating a steel object to a suitable temperature, holding it long enough to reduce residual stresses, and then cooling it slowly enough to minimize the development of new residual stresses.

* Some definitions were borrowed from ASTM International.
Other Capabilities and Services
  • Lab Services
The best way to find out how we can help is by calling one of our Anniston, AL Facility specialists.
Mel Ostrander
Mel Ostrander
Plant Manager
(256) 835-3370 x223
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Don Clem
Don Clem
Technical Sales Manager
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Brian Cate
Brian Cate
Maintenance Manager
(256) 835-3370 x221
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