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Service Heat Treating, a commercial heat-treating company located in Milwaukee, Wis., has developed an alternative heat-treatment process known as WearAll that has shown to provide better wear resistance than carbonitriding for a number of critical-service components.

Improvements in steel manufacturing processes have yielded advancements in the purity of steel that, in turn, yield higher-quality end-use products.

For thermal-processing industries that need to maximize their productivity in a sustainable way, it’s important to think ahead before investing in new process-automation systems.

Vacuum sintering is one of the unsung heroes of industrial metallurgy. In this crucial process, materials are heated in a vacuum environment until they are almost at the point of melting.

The utilization of electromagnetic induction for heat-treatment purposes is no longer a novelty. However, the current excitement associated with induction heat treatment may suggest otherwise.

Data loggers are devices that collect data by taking physical or electrical readings from external or internal sensors over an extended period.

Cryogenic treatment of metal offers breakthrough reductions in wear and corrosion to users of marine components – lowering maintenance and capital replacement cost and increasing operational uptime.

Vacuum aluminum brazing is a careful balance of time, temperature and vacuum level.