| Heat Treatment Methods | Age Hardening Atmosphere Heat Treating Bright Annealing Carbon Restoration Carbonitriding Carburizing Case Hardening Cryogenic Freezing Cryogenics Flame Hardening Hydrogen Heat Treating Neutral Hardening Normalizing Precipitation Hardening | Solution Treating Straightening Stress Relieving Sub-Zero Treating Tempering Tool and Die Hardening Vacuum Heat Treating Vacuum and hydrogen furnace stress relieving Vacuum hardening and aging Vacuum and hydrogen bright annealing Vacuum tempering |
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| Materials | Tool Steel (Carbon Steel & Alloy Steel)
- Shock Resisting Steels - S-Series
- Hot Work Steels- H-Series
- Mold Steels - P-Series
- High Speed Steels - M-Series & T-Series
- Cold Work Steels - O-Series, D-Series & A-Series
- Special Purpose Steels - L-Series & F-Series
Grades | - 10xx
- 1144
- 12L14
- 4130
- 4140
- 4340
- 8620
- 9310
- A2
- D2
- H11
- H13
- S7
- M2
- M4
- M42
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| Typical Condition of Supplied Parts | Annealed Normalized | Normalized and Tempered Solution Annealed |
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| Hardness Scales Certified | |
| Atmospheric Capabilities | Air Argon Endothermic | Hydrogen Nitrogen Vacuum |
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| Quenchants | |
| Heat Treatment Variables Controlled | Type of Process Selected (Annealing, Hardening, Carburizing, etc.) High-Heat Process (Anneal, Normalize, Austenitize), Temperature and Soak Times Furnace Temperature Uniformity Furnace Repeatability Quenchant Type Quench Rate
| Part Size Load Size Load Configuration Part Orientation / Fixturing Type of Furnace Atmosphere Deep Freezing or Cryogenic Processing Number of Tempering Cycles |
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| Dimensional Change variables | Material Grade Variation in Material Properties (Chemistry, Homogeneity, Grain Size, Number and Type of Inclusions, and Hardenability) Part Orientation Versus Grain Orientation Starting Microstructure | Heat Treatments Performed at the Mill Manufacturing Processes and Sequence of Operations Residual Stress State (From Manufacturing) Heat Treatment After Component Manufacturing Hardness Range (Initial, Final) |
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| Equipment | | Main Equipment: (1) High Temperature Vacuum Furnace Work Zone: 48" Wide x 65" Long x 33" High All Metal Hot Zone with Cryogenic and Turbomolecular Pumps (4) High Temperature Vacuum Furnace Work Zone: 36" Wide x 48" Long x 36" High (2) Hydrogen Bell Furnace Work Zone: 38" Diameter x 40" High (1) Vacuum/Hydrogen Cold Wall Furnace Work Zone: 30" Diameter x 65" High (1) Vacuum/Hydrogen Cold Wall Furnace Work Zone: 8" Diameter x 15" High (2) Controlled Atmosphere Furnace Work Zone: 28" Wide x 45" Long x 26" High | (8) Air Temper / Age Furnace (2) Cryogenic Freezer Work Zone: 15" Wide x 46" Long x 20" High Ancillary Equipment: Multi-Gas Electronic Dew Point Testers Class 1,000 Clean Room Class 10,000 Clean Room Aqueous Ultrasonic Cleaning Line Residual Gas Analyzer (RGA) Infrared Scanning/Imaging Camera Inspection Microscopes (1) Wilson Indentron Rockwell Hardness Tester with SPC Capability
Metallograph GTA and MIG Welders
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| Additional Contract Testing Services | Carbon Content Charpy Decarburization IGA | IGO Micro-Hardness Tensile |
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| Secondary Processes | Bead Blast Stop-Off Paint | Vacuum Temper |
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| Industries Served | Aerospace Automotive Defense Manufacturing | Military Mining Tool & Die Transportation |
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| Industry Standards | Certifications: AS9100 ISO 9001:2008 NADCAP:
- AC7004 NADCAP criteria for quality systems
- AC7101/5 NADCAP criteria for rockwell hardness testing
- AC7102 NADCAP criteria for heat treating
- AMS 2750 Pyrometry
- AMS 2759/1 Heat treatment of steel parts (<220ksi)
- AMS 2759/2 Heat treatment of steel parts (>220ksi)
- AMS 2759/3 Precipitation hardening / maraging steel parts
- AMS 2759/4 Austenitic corrosion-resistant steel parts
- AMS 2759/5 Martensitic corrosion-resistant steel parts
- AMS 2759/7 Carburizing of steel parts
- AMS 2759/9 Hydrogen embrittlement relief (baking) of steel parts
| - AMS 2769 Vacuum heat treating
- AMS 2774 Nickel and cobalt base alloys
- AMS 6875-H-CL-A Carbon and low alloy raw material
- AMS 6875-H-CL-B Martensitic corrosion-resistant raw material
- AMS 6875-H-CL-C Austenitic corrosion-resistant raw material
- AMS 6875-H-CL-D Precipitation hardening/maraging raw material
- MIL-H-6875 Refer to AMS-H-6875
Customer Approvals:- Aerojet
- Areva / Siemens
- GE Aviation
- General Dynamics
- Honeywell
- Lockheed Martin
- Moog
- Parker Aerospace
- PCC / Wyman-Gordon
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