These operations have gained widespread acceptance. Customers rely upon us for annealing, quenching, induction hardening, and nitriding expertise. We also offer a number of additional specialized heat treatment operations.
Process: Annealing involves re-heating metal and cooling it within controlled temperature parameters.
Frequent Uses: Many products eventually utilized in the construction industry undergo annealing. Annealing today plays an important role in preparing welded mechanical assemblies for finishing.
Benefits: This operation helps reduce brittleness. It may also assist manufacturers seeking to perform further cold-working or machining. Annealed metal enables manufacturers to manipulate and work with it more easily.
Process: A manufacturer cools heated workpieces rapidly to produce changes in hardness. It causes some metals to become softer, while most ferrous alloys grow harder.
Frequent Uses: A variety of manufacturing sectors use this operation. They include businesses making consumer wares, tools, and small engine components.
Benefits: This operation frequently helps harden or soften parts cost-effectively. It modifies the hardness of diversely sized and shaped components.
Process: This hardening process subjects a metal workpiece placed within an electrified metal coil to high temperatures, followed by quenching. It typically occurs today with automated production environments.
Frequent Uses: Many uses exist for this technology. It hardens gears and pinions, for example. It also hardens medical devices and components.
Benefits: Induction hardening produces very few toxic byproducts. Hardening does not necessarily require direct contact between the component and other materials. Manufacturers harden parts of variable sizes using this technology today. It lends itself to automation.
Process: This case hardening process involves subjecting a metal workpiece to thermochemical changes caused by the formation of a nitride-rich layer on the metal surface. Nitrogen atoms (typically obtained from ammonia) diffuse over the heated surface of a ferrous alloy.
Frequent Uses: As a low-cost case hardening technology, nitriding frequently helps harden the surfaces of tools. It will produce many tough metal parts, including the wires used in steel fencing.
Benefits: Nitriding helps manufacturers produce more durable, wear-resistant metal parts. As a form of case hardening, it enhances the hardness (and brittleness) of the metal surface, improving its ability to withstand scratches, abrasions, and other insults.
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