[thermal Processes]

Discover our world of heat treatment

Heat treatment has been used for thousands of years to improve the properties of materials—from the blacksmith’s fire to today’s advanced industrial furnaces. Our furnaces are used for industrial heat treatment of various types of materials. The purpose is often to make changes in microstructure and mechanical properties. Common heat treatment processes include annealing, tempering, preheating, normalizing, and hardening.

Our heat processes

Heat treatment

Heat treatment is a process that changes the properties of metals, such as strength, durability, and formability. By controlling the temperature during the heat-treatment process, the material’s properties can be improved for different applications.

Hardening

Hardening is a collective term for the thermal methods aimed at creating a martensitic or bainitic structure to increase the hardness and strength of steel.

Tempering

After hardening to a martensitic structure, the steel has relatively low toughness. By tempering, i.e., heating to temperatures between 150 and 650 °C, the toughness can be increased significantly.

Annealing

Annealing, or soft annealing, often refers to treatments that reduce the hardness of steel or produce a structure that facilitates subsequent processing.

Normalizing

Normalizing is a heat treatment process primarily used on steel to create a uniform, fine-grained microstructure and improve the material’s mechanical properties.

Drying

Industrial ovens are used for drying by supplying controlled heat and air circulation to remove moisture, solvents, or other volatile substances from materials or components..

Coating

Powder coating is an environmentally friendly and durable surface treatment method in which dry powder is applied electrostatically to a surface and cured in an oven to form a wear-resistant protective layer.