Ductile
and gray iron castings are heat treated in batch furnaces.
Atmosphere treatments include oil quench hardening,
normalizing, full
annealing, and austempering.
Non-atmosphere treatments include tempering, sub-critical
annealing and stress relief.
Finishing treatments include steel shot blasting.
Atmosphere
treatments for carbon steel castings include those for the cast irons, as well
as carbon restoration to correct the
surface oxidation on critical performance parts.
Atmosphere heat treatments for stainless steel castings vary by material
composition. 400 series stainless
steel castings are hardened in oil quench atmosphere
batch furnaces. 300 series
stainless steel castings are solution annealed
in water quench atmosphere batch furnaces.
Non-ferrous
castings are heat treated in atmosphere and non-atmosphere batch furnaces.
Processes typically include annealing of
copper, brass, and bronze parts and solution
annealing and age hardening of aluminum parts.
Finishing treatments include glass bead blasting
and straightening.