Heat Treatment – heat treatment service provider

We offer austempering as our in-house heat treatment.

Austempering:

The austempering process leads to a good combination of hardness and toughness when using material based on steel or cast iron. The austeniting process at between 850 – 1050 °C is followed by a quenching process at a specific transformation temperature, usually in a salt bath. The salt temperature is dependent on the material in question and the required hardness and varies between 250 and 400 °C.

Compared to the conventional heat treatment, austempering offers numerous advantages:

• only minor hardening distortion
• good combination of toughness and a high degree of hardness
• a high degree of Izod notched impact strength
• an improved fatigue strength
• improved bending properties