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Aluminum Vacuum Heat Treatment

I need parts annealed or stress relieved without alpha case. Who has vacuum furnace capacity in my size?

What it is

Annealing, solution treating, aging or stress relieving in a vacuum or inert atmosphere furnace. Required for reactive metals, which would otherwise pick up oxygen and form a brittle surface layer.

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  • Bodycote Reported
    Macclesfield · Service provider

    Aluminium alloys named in the material list; vacuum heat treatment is a core Bodycote service. 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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