Bedford, PA Facility

In January of 2000, Rex Heat Treat took a giant leap forward with the construction of their state of the art 30,000 square foot facility in Bedford, Pennsylvania. Home to cutting edge austempering, aus-carburizing, martempering, and solution annealing services, Rex Heat Treat – Bedford is taking its place as one of the elite commercial heat treating houses in the country.

Serving the aerospace, agriculture and construction industries, as well as consumer products, defense and mining, Rex Heat Treat Bedford is a flexible, full-service operation built to serve customers effectively and efficiently. With a strong background also serving the transportation industries of automotive, railroad and trucking, Rex Heat Treat Bedford is built to accommodate the diverse and demanding needs of our clients.

In addition to its world class heat treat services, Rex Heat Treat Bedford also offers tensile testing, failure analysis, and lab services. Consistently backed by unrivaled customer service and professionalism, the Bedford team brings an enthusiasm to each and every project, working with customers to develop unique solutions and delivering quality products and services every time.

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.

Carbonitriding

Case hardening in which a suitable steel object is heated above Ac1 in a gaseous atmosphere of such composition as to cause imultaneous absorption of carbon and nitrogen by the surface and, by diffusion, to create a concentration gradient.

Carburizing

A process in which an austenitized steel object is brought into contact with a carbonaceous environment of sufficient carbon potential to ause absorption of carbon at the surface and, by diffusion, to create a concentration gradient.

Cyrogenic Heat Treatment

Cryogenics, or deep freezing is done to make sure there is no retained Austenite during quenching.

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.

Tempering

Reheating a quench hardened or normalized steel object to a temperature below Ac1, and then cooling it at any desired rate.

* Some definitions were borrowed from ASTM International.
Other Capabilities and Services
  • Austenite Conditioning
  • Bainitic Hardening
  • Carbon Restoring
  • Lab Services
  • Oil Quenching
  • Polymer Quenching
The best way to find out how we can help is by calling one of our Bedford, PA Facility specialists.
Doug Gerber
Doug Gerber
Plant Manager
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Randy Wagner
Randy Wagner
Quality Control Director
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Jeff Fuge
Jeff Fuge
Sales Manager
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Dava Smith
Dava Smith
Customer Service
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