Heat treatment processes are essential in metallurgy to alter the properties of metals. These include hardness, toughness, and ductility, through controlled heating and cooling.
These are some of the heat treatment processes we offer:
Hardening and Tempering:
- Marquenching
- Austempering
Case Hardening:
- Cyanide salt
- Gas carburising, refining
- Carbo nitriding
Annealing, normalising and stress relief:
- Nitrogen atmosphere
- Vacuum
Vacuum processes:
- Bright clean low distortion hardening
- High speed steels
- Mumetals & radio metal
- Fluxes high temperature brazing
- Bright ppt of copper beryllium
Nitriding:
- Gas nitriding
Tufftriding:
- Salt TF1 & AB1
Q-tuff:
- Gas nitrocarburising processes
Chemical blacking:
- Hot process
- Large bath capable of big, heavy items
Solution Treating / precipitation:
- Aluminium castings & wrought
- Titanium alloys
- Mar-aging steels
Induction & Flame process:
- High and low frequency
- 5 foot programmable shaft hardener
Shot Blasting:
- Grit blasting, several grades in stock
- Glass bead
Shrink fitting (liquid nitrogen):
- Other Sub-zero treatments
Racing car treatments:
- Heat treatment of fabrications, wishbones, uprights etc
- Drive shafts, c.v. housing selector shafts
Laboratory:
- Micro examination
- Case depth analysis
- Crack detection penetration & fluorescent magnetic particle
- Full range of hardness test equipment including portable and micro
Phosphating:
- Mg&Zn Phosphating
- Parcolube
Quality control:
- Two stage quality control procedure undertaken on all services
- Full computerised traceability of all the heat treatment processes
Contact us for further information