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Aalberts surface technologies Capabilities by Plant

Aalberts surface technologies provides comprehensive metal treatment solutions for your most challenging products. We treat ferrous and non-ferrous metals, and serve as your expert partner every…

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Aerospace and Defense Purchase Order Requirements

In order to supply you with the best turnaround possible for your aerospace product, we have outlined a handful of requirements which need to be included…

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Aerospace Prime Approvals

Aerospace Prime Approvals for Wadsworth, OH  

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Annealing

The annealing process involves heating up the material slightly above its austenitizing temperature and then controlled cooling it from there. In annealing, the material can be…

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Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI)

ADI provides a high strength-to-weight material at a component price that is typically 20% less than that of steel. Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI) is a specialty…

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Austempered Gray Iron (AGI)

Make Quieter Components AGI offers material with excellent dampening effects, strength, and wear resistance. Typical applications of AGI include: Bearing Collars Light Duty Gears Cylinder Liners Machine…

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Austempered Steel

Application of the Austempering process to steel provides the user with a tough, high-strength component that resists embrittlement. This dimensionally repeatable process is typically cost competitive…

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Carbidic Austempered Ductile Iron (CADI™)

CADI™ is a new treatment that uses a matrix of ausferrite and carbides to add strength and wear resistance to ductile iron parts. The result is…

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Carbo-Austempered™ Steel

This process develops a tough, high-carbon, bainitic case on high performance components. Carbo-Austempered parts have remarkable impact properties that are superior to either neutral hardened or…

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Casting Conversion Service

Converting fabrications to one-piece austempered ductile iron castings offers significant advantages, allowing our customers to: Increase product performance (strength, wear resistance, toughness) Reduce number of components…

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Continuous Furnace Solution Heat Treat

Continuous roller hearth furnaces are typically designed to process high volume products that require the same process time and temperature. Parts are loaded in containers that…

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Drop Bottom Furnace Solution Heat Treating

Drop bottom furnaces utilize a carriage to set heat treat containers on during the solution process. The carriage is suspended by chains and is hoisted into…

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Ferritic Nitrocarburizing (FNC)

FNC produces a compound layer on the surface of the parts typically .0001”-.0015”. The compound layer is formed by diffusing nitrogen and carbon into the surface…

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Hyperquench Solution Heat Treating

The HyperQuench process is conducted in an electric drop bottom furnace. Aluminum parts are loaded into the HyperQuench racking system and lifted into the furnace hydraulically.…

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Isothermal Anneal

Isothermal anneal is a two-stage process involving austenitizing the material first at preferred temperature and subsequently cooling to and holding at a specific temperature to complete…

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Locally Austempered Ductile Iron (LADI™)

LADITM is a surface hardening heat treatment process that will produce a localized case depth (3 to 5 mm) of an ausferrite microstructure (ADI) in a desired…

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NitroSteel® FAQ’s

NitroSteel® products and chrome-plated products utilize the same base metals and would be machined in a similar fashion. The hardened surface wear layer and light shallow…

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NitroSteel® Product Comparison

Have you been challenged to design a better product? Count on NitroSteel® the experts in ferritic nitrocarburizing (FNC), for performance that’s vastly superior to chrome plating.

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Normalizing

Normalizing is a heat treat process in which steel is austenitized (heated above a critical temperature), held for a specified time, and then cooled in air.…

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Phosphate and Lube Coating

Phosphates are available in light and heavy versions with a base of zinc, iron or manganese. In addition, there are several types of lubrications available like…

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Pickle and Oil

Stage 1 – Pickling: The purpose of pickling is to remove contaminates from the surface of the steel such as scale, stains, or rust. Sulfuric acid…

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Precision Air Quench

Distortion control and dimensional stability Ability to process thinner walled aluminum castings and stampings Improved mechanical properties; ultimate tensile strength, yield strength, and % elongation Increased…

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Quench And Temper

Quench and Temper process provides strength and toughness throughout the part being processed. It is a two- stage heat treat process that includes hardening and tempering…

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Shot Blasting

Shot blasting is the process in which a blasting media (shot) is used to clean the surface of steel, eliminating old coatings, rust, scale, etc.

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Spheroidize Annealing

Spheroidize annealing produces microstructure of globular carbides in a ferritic matrix. This microstructure is achieved in a few different ways:

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Construction/Heavy Equipment

Construction/Heavy Equipment

End Users Include

  • Caterpillar
  • John Deere
  • Timken

Typical Applications

  • Bulldozers
  • Cranes
  • Excavators
  • Mixers
  • Graders
  • Trenchers
  • Loaders
Material Handling

Material Handling

Typical Applications

  • Automated Guided Vehicles
  • Conveyors
  • Cranes
  • Forklifts
  • Hydraulic Lifts

Medical Equipment

End Users Include

  • GE
  • Stryker

Typical Applications

  • Dentistry
  • Medical furniture
  • Surgical equipment
Heavy Truck

Heavy Truck (Class 8)

End Users Include

  • Meritor
  • Volvo

Typical Applications

  • Brake Systems
  • Exhaust Systems
  • Hitch
  • Powertrain Systems
  • Steering Systems
Defense

Military/Defense

End Users Include

  • Bell
  • Boeing
  • Lockheed Martin
  • Sikorsky

Typical Applications

  • Firearms
  • Missile Systems
  • Aircraft Components
  • Avionics
  • Naval Systems
  • Ground Support Vehicles
  • Space
  • Manned Aerial Vehicle
  • Armament Systems
  • All Terrain Vehicles

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Railway

Railway

Typical Applications

  • Brake Systems
  • Engine Systems
  • Hitch Systems
  • Ramp Systems
  • Turbo Systems
Recreational Equipment

Recreational Equipment

Typical Applications

  • Engine Systems
  • Cylinder Rods
  • Suspension Systems
  • Transmission Systems
Mobile equipment

Mobile Equipment

End Users Include

  • Caterpillar
  • BOSS

Typical Applications

  • Graders
  • Haulers
  • Refuse Trucks
  • Salt Trucks
  • Snow Plows
Energy

Energy

End Users Include

  • FMC
  • GE

Typical Applications

  • Fracking
  • Gas and Oil
  • Seismic Imagining
  • Solar
  • Wind Turbine
Agriculture

Agriculture

End Users Include

  • CAT
  • John Deere

Typical Applications

  • Drill Equipment
  • Harvesters
  • Hay & Forage Equipment
  • Irrigation & Crop Processing Equipment
  • Planting Equipment
  • Spraying Equipment
  • Tractors

Marine

End Users Include

  • Mercury Marine
  • Seakeeper

Typical Applications

  • Anchor Systems
  • Engine Systems
  • Cylinder Rods
  • Propeller Systems
Aerospace

Aerospace

End Users Include

  • Bell Helicopter
  • Boeing
  • Honeywell
  • Rolls-Royce
  • SpaceX
  • UTC Aerospace Systems

Typical Applications

  • Aircraft Body
  • Brake Systems
  • Electrical Systems
  • Engine Systems
  • Interior Cabin
  • Landing Gear
  • Propulsion Systems

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Auto

Automotive

End Users Include

  • FCA
  • Ford
  • GM
  • Honda
  • Tesla
  • Toyota

Typical Applications

  • Brake Systems
  • Exhaust Systems
  • Powertrain Systems
  • Steering Systems