Heat Treatment Soudan: Hardening & Tempering

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Major actor of Heat Treatment in the area, our plant based in Soudan have an organization in place, capable of satisfying various needs and special requirements of industrial company, manufacturers, equipment suppliers or sub-contractors.

Welcome to Soudan

Our processes deliver its functional mechanical properties to our customer’s parts. Our organization and our resources, help us to guarantee short delivery delays, from single part to high volumes. We support our customers, by searching and advising on the adapted treatment for each parts, in function of the desired mechanical performance, reliability and durability.

“Our commitment is to deliver to our customers, a wide range of services with a high level of quality.”, Jacques Fassold plant manager

Induction treatment:

Possible treatments: quenching/tempering, brazing, annealing. Advantages: localized treatment, good repeatability, localized deformations.

Vacuum treatment:

Possible treatments: quenching/tempering, aging, annealing, solution heat treatment. Advantages: cleanliness of parts, limited deformation, treatment of a large number of alloyed steels, limited reworking during machining, recommended for aeronautical/medical/precision parts.

Low pressure treatment:

Possible treatments: carburizing, carbonitriding, annealing, solution treatment. Advantages: appearance of the parts (no scale), reduction of the carbon footprint, low rework in machining, possibility of optimizing the deformation thanks to the adjustment of the cooling parameters.

Atmosphere treatment:

Possible treatments: oil quenching/tempering, carbonitriding, carburizing, annealing. Advantages: no decarburization, reliability, diversity of atmosphere TTHs, treating parts with low hardenability.

Ionic nitriding:

Possible treatments: plasma nitriding, max depth 0.3 mm. Advantages: very little deformation, possible protection, treatment on finished parts, treatment at low temperature, treatment on stainless steels.

thermochemical processes

Plasma Nitriding

During the process, surface is enriched with nitrogen in order to improve the first layer of surface mechanical properties.

Carburizing

The surface is doped with carbon in order to improve mechanical properties.

Carbonitriding

First layer of surface is doped with carbon and nitrogen in order to improve surface mechanical properties. The process is similar to carburizing but for steel with more than 0.3% of carbon content inside.

thermic processes

Quenching and tempering

This process only requires heating and cooling with specific speed and time. It allows us to adjust mechanical properties in the range possible with the desired material.

Annealing

In the opposite of quenching, the parts a e slowly cooled in order to return in a stable state and to reduce internal stress.

Sub-zero treatment

It is required for some steel grades to cool down to sub-zero degree Celsius between quenching and tempering in order to achieve a better rate of structure transformation.

industries & applications

Agriculture: Agricultural machinery, as well as public works vehicles are used in a harsh environment. Aalberts Surface technologies have a strong knowledge in heat treatment for those end markets.
Capital Goods: With a technical assistance to design offices, availability of our plants and a global treatment offer, special machine and industrial equipment manufacturers find the appropriate solution with Aalberts Surface technologies company.
Medical: Chirurgical tools and implants requires a strict compliance to the manufacturer’s requirements. A high control level of vacuum heat treatments help us to deliver very clean parts. The plant is compliant with ISO 13485 certification.
Aerospace and Defense: Compliant to EN 9100 certification, Aalberts surface technologies is the key partner for this end market for heat treatment of high stress parts and safety parts.
Tooling: Critical tolerances and precise dimensions are major parameter in tooling and mold industries. Our Evolving and heat treatment technologies associated to our daily quality management, make Aalberts surface technologies a major partner for mold and tooling industries. We offer a many year know-how to achieve an optimum final result during all the steps of your projects.

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