Heat Treatment: A Critical Process that should not be an Afterthought in Large Engineering Projects

24 March 2017

If heat treatment technology has ever been perceived as an afterthought, well, nothing could be further from the truth. This is an essential process regimen, a series of techniques that equips metal parts with tailored material properties. Hardness is usually regarded as the primary reason for altering these already robust […]

Read More

Is it Possible to Oil Quench Materials from a Vacuum Furnace?

23 March 2017

This fully contained heat treatment procedure is usually tendered by Alpha Detroit when a workpiece requires a mechanically enhanced, metallurgically consistent finish. Therefore, to answer the initial question, it is possible to oil quench materials from a vacuum furnace, but this technique should only be called upon when superior mechanical […]

Read More