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