HARDENING

Precipitation hardening:
Hardening of a ferrous product caused by precipitation of a compound from a supersaturated solid solution.

Solution Treatment:
Heat Treatment intended to dissolve and retain in solution previously precipitated constituents.

Ageing:
Heating and soaking at one or more specified temperatures, followed by appropriate cooling.

- Age Hardening / Precipitation Hardening
- Solution Treatment
- Strain Ageing
- Small Capacity Water Quench

Materials Generally Processed

- High Alloy Steels
- Stainless Steels
- Bolting Grades
- Nimonic
- Incoloy
- Inconel
- Hastelloy
- Titanium
- Monel

Batch Sizes up to 2 Tonnes
Lengths up to 2.7m

annealing | normalising | stress relieving | hardening
Thermalloy | Tempering | special processes