Heat Treating Heat treating is a process in which metal is heated and cooled under tight controls to improve its properties, performance and durability. It can soften metal to improve formability and make parts harder to improve strength. It can also put a hard surface on relatively soft components to increase abrasion resistance. Heat treating can create a corrosion-resistant skin to protect parts that would otherwise corrode. And it can toughen brittle products.

Uses

Heat-treated parts are essential to the operation of: automobiles, aircraft and spacecraft computers and heavy equipment saws, axes and other cutting tools bearings, gears and axles fasteners camshafts and crankshafts

Nicor can help you

Nicor can assist with natural gas heat treating methods, including: Annealing (full, process and spheroidizing) Carbonitriding and carburizing Nitriding and normalizing Pit Carburizing Quench and Tempering Vacuum Heat Treating We can also assist with equipment selection, including: Atmosphere Generators Batch Furnaces Continuous Furnaces

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