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Aluminum Heat Treatment

I need parts solution treated and aged, or quenched and tempered, to an aerospace specification. Who is accredited for my material?

What it is

Solution treating, aging, annealing, normalizing, quenching and tempering in air, controlled atmosphere or salt. The route for aluminum and most steels, where reactive and refractory metals instead require vacuum.

Suppliers

Suppliers 7

Companies that perform this process on customer material.

  • Bodycote Reported
    Macclesfield · Service provider

    Aluminium alloys are named explicitly in the material list. CAVEAT: Bodycote operates 245 plants in 21 countries and WHICH plant holds WHICH approval is not established from these sources. A NADCAP thermal processing approval belongs to a furnace at a named site, not to the corporate brand. Confirm the plant before qualifying to it.

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  • Erie, PA · Service provider
    AS9100NADCAP Heat TreatingNADCAP Nondestructive TestingNADCAP Materials Testing Laboratories

    A dedicated aluminium heat treating line, separate from the vacuum and atmosphere furnaces.

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  • South El Monte, CA · Service provider
    AS9100NADCAP Heat Treating

    NADCAP accredited and AS9100 registered, aerospace aluminum focus.

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  • Meadville, PA · Service provider
    NADCAP Heat TreatingNADCAP Materials Testing Laboratories

    Processes to AMS 2770, AMS 2771, AMS 2772 and MIL-H-6088, including solution treat, aging, annealing and cryogenic stress relief.

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  • Souderton, PA · Service provider
    AS9100NADCAP Heat TreatingLargest unit 48 ft long, 150,000 lb capacity

    The published process list covers age hardening and homogenising without naming aluminium; confirm the alloy and temper before sourcing. SIZE CAVEAT: this is the LARGEST UNIT across a seven-plant network, not the envelope of this particular process at any one site. Re-confirmed 2026-07-30 as 48 feet long and 150,000 pound capacity; the previously recorded '90+ furnaces' count could not be re-confirmed and has been dropped. Ask which plant and which furnace before sizing a part to it.

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  • Portland, OR · Service provider
    NADCAP Heat TreatingNADCAP Aerospace Quality Systems

    Aluminium heat treating is a named service line, separate from the vacuum and endothermic lines.

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  • Weber Metals Reported
    Paramount, CA · Service provider
    NADCAP Nondestructive Testing

    10,000 lb drop-bottom electric furnace for solution treating aluminium, which is the quench-critical step for 2xxx and 7xxx forgings.

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