We conduct heat treament processes for alteration of the physical and sometimes the chemical properties of the materials. This service is made available to our customers.
Anealing - To increase material ductility and reduce its hardness for ease of workability and machining purposes. The material will be heated above its recrystalization temperature, maintaining a suitable temperature for an amount of time, and then cooling.
Hardening - Hardening is desirable for metal components that are subject to sliding contact with hard or abrasive materials, as the hardened metal is more resistant to surface wear.
Normalising is a heat treatment process which alters the microstructure of a material to change it mechanicals or electrical propeties. Typically it aims to give steel a uniform and fine grain structure. After casting a steel microstructure is often unhomogeneous consisting in large grain and unwanted bainite and carbides. After normalising a more fine grain homoeous structure is obtained.