Heat Treat for Castings

In addition to our different casting services, our sources are capable of providing normal heat treat procedures to your specifications that include:

ANNEALING — Annealing is a heat treatment process in which the microstructure of a metal is altered in order to improve certain important characteristics. This procedure is used in many cases to stress relieve parts before and after machining. Annealing can be used on steel and cobalt/chrome high temperature alloys.

HARDENING — Hardening is a heat treatment process which results in improved mechanical properties and increased hardness. We can water quench, oil quench or forced air quench parts based on your requirements. Hardness requirements can be accomplished with both ferrous alloys, including stainless steel castings as well as non-ferrous alloys such as bronze castings or aluminum castings.

CASE HARDENING — unlike some other hardening processes, case hardening involves hardening only the exterior surface of the metal while leaving the interior the same. This is a process that works very well on alloy and carbon steels, and results in a very hard surface that is especially resistant to wear.

SOLUTION ANNEALING — Solution annealing is a process that is specifically used for stainless steel castings and other stainless steel requirements. It works in much the same way as other types of annealing.

AGING — This process can be applied to age hardenable or precipitation hardenable ferrous and non-ferrous alloys for improved strengths, hardness and toughness with reduced risk of distortion.