Articles & Whitepapers

Articles

“An American in China”

Submitted by: Eric S. Boltz
8 November 2004

The 10th International Heat Treatment & Surface Engineering Exhibition was held Oct. 26-28 2004 at the Shanghai Everbright Convention & Exhibit Center. As our China business has been growing rapidly over the last few years we decided to attend and exhibit at this show and to write a short article describing the state of heat treating in the PRC. Read more »

White Papers

“Solidification of high speed steels”

Submitted by: M. Boccalini and H. Goldenstein

High speed steels are ferrous based alloys of the applied so far in cutting tools, since it became hard Fe–C–X multicomponent system where X represents a group of alloying elements when air cooled from a temperature from which most comprising mainly Cr, W or Mo, V, and Co. Read more »

“The Advantages of Low Pressure Carburizing in the Heat Treatment Subcontracting Business”

Submitted by: Guy PRUNEL, Bruno STAUDER

BODYCOTE, Chassieu, France
Low Pressure Carburizing (LPC) was introduced in the 90’s in the western Europe Heat Treatment business, mainly for in-house applications where it was especially appreciated for carburizing of transmission parts. Read more »