Process Capabilities

Böhler-Uddeholm Thermo-Tech offers one of the most complete ranges of vacuum thermal processing services available in North America. The company has a full line of vacuum heat treatment equipment that allows optimal heat treatment for all tooling needs, regardless of tool size or complexity.  Below is a listing of our capabilities.

• High Pressure Vacuum Hardening • 10 Bar, 5 Bar, 2 Bar • Atmosphere Tempering • Vacuum Tempering • Vacuum Annealing • Bright Tempering • Bright Annealing • Ageing • Precipitation Hardening • Solution Annealing (Stainless, Maraging Steels) • Normalizing • Stress Relieving • Stress Tempering • Homogenizing • Specialized Racking / Fixturing

Process Innovation

Within the client relationship, Böhler-Uddeholm Thermo-Tech clearly recognizes the benefit it provides through process innovations. Our innovations are the adoption of new or significantly improved production methods as well as the development of new and improved products. Involving changes in equipment and in production organization, the innovations are intended to produce product improvements that cannot be realized using conventional production methods. These are not paradigm shifts in your operation, but incremental improvements in product design as it relates to the treatment process. The obvious results of these improvements can be realized on an economic scale through improved product quality and lowered production costs.


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