Endothermic gas carburizing and liquid quenching will be with us for probably another 50 years at least. Why? Because, for the money, there just is no other case-hardening process that can elevate the properties of such a wide range of ferrous alloys.

Heat treatment is an inseparable part of many industries. This is especially true of the automotive industry with its emphasis on using the most current work procedures and devices and the requirement for the most effective processes.

Höganäs AB, a metal-powder technology company, installed a new combined vacuum sintering and low-pressure carburizing (LPC) furnace at its PoP Centre in Sweden.

Solar Manufacturing shipped a vacuum carburizing furnace to a major gear manufacturer.

SECO/WARWICK Corp. delivered a three-chamber CaseMaster Evolution® vacuum carburizing furnace to a U.S.-based aerospace manufacturer.

SECO/WARWICK Corp. delivered two CaseMaster Evolution® vacuum carburizing furnaces with washers, tempers and full data retrieval to a global manufacturer.

When oxygen diffuses into the steel surface during the carburizing process, it is usually along the austenitic grain boundaries.

Process-gas generation is extremely critical to the success of the carburizing process.