Vacuum heat treating

Are you seeking precision and quality heat treatment services for your tools and dies? Metals Technology brings Vacuum Tool and Die High Bar Quench services to Carol Stream, setting new standards in metallurgical excellence.

Vacuum Tool and Die High Bar Quench Services

At Metals Technology, we understand the crucial role of precision and material properties in the performance of tools and dies. That’s why we offer Vacuum Tool and Die High Bar Quench services.

Superior Quality Control

Our service is characterized by meticulously controlling the environment within the vacuum furnace, ensuring uniform heating and quenching.

Extended Tool Life

The high bar quench (up to 15-bar) process enhances your tools’ wear resistance and toughness.

Custom Solutions

We tailor the process parameters to suit the material and geometry of your components, ensuring optimized performance.

Benefits

At Metals Technology, we understand the crucial role of precision and material properties in the performance of tools and dies. That’s why we offer Vacuum Tool and Die High Bar Quench services.

Superior Quality Control: Our service is characterized by meticulously controlling the environment within the vacuum furnace, ensuring uniform heating and quenching.
Extended Tool Life: The high bar quench (up to 15-bar) process enhances your tools’ wear resistance and toughness.
Custom Solutions: We tailor the process parameters to suit the material and geometry of your components, ensuring optimized performance.

Overview

Vacuum Heat Treatment is a process that offers consistent control over the heating and cooling of materials.

Atmospheric Control: By creating a vacuum, the process minimizes the risks of oxidation and contamination.
Precise Temperature Management: Vacuum furnaces enable precise control of temperature profiles, ensuring uniform and controlled heating and cooling.
High-Pressure Quenching: The high bar quenching in a vacuum ensures rapid cooling, which is crucial for achieving desired material properties in tools and dies. MTC can offer up to 15-bar quenching.

Processes

Hardening Tool steels, P/M tool steels, Stainless steels, and super alloys
Annealing, Bright annealing, solution Annealing, Normalizing, Carbide conditioning, Thermal shocking, and Stress relieving.
Vacuum Tempering
Precipitation (age) hardening stainless steels, Ni-based & Ti-based superalloys.

Process Capabilities

AMS 2750 (pyrometry), AMS 2759, AMS 2769, CQI-9, NADCA, etc.
Nitrogen or argon backfill gas.
Nitrogen quenching up to 15 Bar.
Automated process controls
Digital furnace charting
Load thermocouples

TOOL AND DIE VACUUM HEAT TREATING

MTC offers overnight heat treatment of most tool steels, such as A2, D2, S7, M2, M4, M42, CPM 10V, and stainless steels. Other materials such as H11, H13, and H21 can be processed for delivery in 2 days.

MTC has High Pressure Quench capabilities (up to 15 bar) meeting NADCA requirements for H13 and heat treating other tool and die materials for their optimum properties.

Materials and Applications Suitable for Vacuum Tool and Die High Bar Quench

The Vacuum Tool and Die High Bar Quench process is an unrivaled solution for several materials, substantially enhancing their properties and durability. This heat treatment technique is critical in the industry, allowing tools and dies to endure even the most challenging conditions.

Materials Suited for Vacuum High Bar Quench

This process is designed to cater to an array of materials, each of which gains substantial benefits from undergoing this treatment.

High-Speed Steels
Tool Steels
Alloy Steels

Applications of Vacuum High Bar Quench

The applications of Vacuum Tools and Die High Bar Quench extend over various industries and components. Its versatility aids in various operations, imparting high wear resistance and dimensional stability to the treated parts.

Metal Stamping Tools
Extrusion Dies
Molding Operations
Cutting Tools

Request a Quote from Metals Technology Today

Look no further if you seek a reliable partner to provide Vacuum Tool and Die High Bar Quench services in Carol Stream. Metals Technology is committed to delivering the highest quality and precision in heat treatment services.

Our expert team is here to offer tailored solutions that meet your specific requirements. Don’t compromise on quality – Request a quote from Metals Technology today and elevate the performance and longevity of your tools and dies.