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