Most, if not all, heat treaters – whether they like to admit it or not – enjoy the challenges that present themselves when confronted by a new material or the need to develop a new process recipe to achieve specified properties or results.

The nitriding process is perhaps one of the most misunderstood thermochemical surface-treatment processes practiced today.

When Martin Straus started a plating company on the south side of Chicago in 1979, not even he could have envisioned the success the business would have in the years to come.

Multiple-chamber vacuum furnaces combine the advantages of vacuum processing with energy and maintenance cost savings.

Much of the Center for Heat Treating Excellence's recent focus has been on assessing the benefits of alumina-forming alloys.

When you lose a temperature sensor – like a thermocouple – you need to know why it failed and how to prevent it in the future.

Like the words to your favorite song playing over and over in your mind, the heat treater’s repeating lyric is producing the best quality parts by controlling both equipment- and process-induced variability.

The Express Batch Oven (EBO) is a standardized batch oven that offers premium quality and quick delivery at a competitive price.

A light industrial furnace line has been designed for smaller-scale operations such as testing facilities, laboratories and small industrial plants.

No. 835 is an electrically heated walk-in oven that can be used for heat treating steel parts.