Services

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.

Ferritic Nitrocarburizing

Ferritic nitrocarburizing is a range of case hardening processes that diffuse nitrogen and carbon into ferrous metals at sub-critical temperatures.

Induction Hardening

A process in which a suitable steel object is heated by electrical induction to above Ac3 or Accm, and then the object is quenched.

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".

Nitriding

Introducing nitrogen into a solid steel object by holding it at a suitable temperature in contact with a nitrogenous environment.

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.

Vacuum Heat Treat

Heating metals to high temperatures normally causes rapid oxidation, which is undesirable. A vacuum furnace removes the oxygen and prevents this from happening.

* Some definitions were borrowed from ASTM International.
Other Capabilities and Services
  • Austenite Conditioning
  • Bainitic Hardening
  • Blasting
  • Carbon Restoring
  • Cold Straightening
  • Fixture Straightening
  • Harden and Temper
  • Lab Services
  • Low Temperature Stabilization
  • Non Ferrous Treatments
  • Oil Quenching
  • Polymer Quenching
  • Stainless Steel
  • Titanium
  • Tool Steels
  • Vertical Heat Treatment to 20 feet
  • Water Quenching
  • Other