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