Heat Treating
Heat treatment is the controlled heating or cooling of material to change its structure in order to obtain certain mechanical properties, such as hardness, strength or ductility. Heat treating processes include Annealing, which heats the material slightly above its critical temperature, then slowly cools it to reduce its hardness and increase its ductility. Normalizing cools the heated material in air to remove the effect of all previous heat treatment processes. Quenching heats the material to its critical temperature, then cools it rapidly in water or air to increase its hardness and wear resistance. Tempering reheats a quenched part to a point below its critical temperature, then cools it at a desired rate to increase its ductility and toughness.
High Pressure Heat Treatment for Aerospace and Medical Device Applications

Take a closer look at how the uniform rapid quenching of the new Quintus QIH 122 URQ Hot Isostatic Press strengthens the capabilities of Lake City Heat Treating.
Take a closer look at how the uniform rapid quenching of the new Quintus QIH 122 URQ Hot Isostatic Press strengthens the capabilities of Lake City Heat Treating.
Ceramic fiber-lined furnaces are general purpose box furnaces for batch heat treating in air atmosphere.
A TITAN H2 vacuum heat treating system with two-bar gas quenching from Ipsen satisfies the strict legal requirements of the medical industry.
Hueter runs small lots of Becu pins under a nitrogen atmosphere inside a 42GT-H12 oven from Lucifer Furnaces to achieve a specific Rockwell hardness and reduce surface oxidation for a scale free, bright finish.
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Low-temperature infrared cabinet oven for heating, drying, curing and conditioning of bonded or coated parts.
Lucifer Furnaces Inc. (Warrington, PA) has designed a multi-unit modular pot furnace system for a major aerospace manufacturer in the United States.