Heat Treating Service

A heat treating service modifies the properties of metals and metal alloys by performing thermal treatments. Typically, manufactures rely on a heat treating service to alter the strength or hardness of a material. On a micro level, heat treating manipulates the properties of a metal's microstructure by controlling the rate of cooling after it is heated. When metals are cooled quickly, the microstructure becomes denser, resulting in a material of increased hardness and strength.

Heat treating service processes include:

• anealing
• stress relieving
• austempering
• stabilizing
• case hardening
• spheroidizing
• conventional hardening
• solution treating
• homogenizing
• shot peening
• hot isostatic pressing (HIP)
• martempering
• precipitation hardening
• normalizing

Some heat treating service providers also perform processes secondary to the heat treating service such as machining, coating, grinding, finishing, laboratory testing, inspection, packaging, and shipping for a complete service solution. Manufacturers of all different types of products depend on heat treating services, but especially manufacturers in the aerospace, automobile, and medical industries.