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Processing Capabilities
Alro’s Thermal Processing services gets you this much closer to your finished product.
Thermal Processing
Stress Relieving
diminishes the residual stress in steel caused by working the material (i.e. flame cutting, forming, rolling, casting, machining, welding, bending, straightening). This is accomplished by reheating the steel then cooling it at a slower rate.
Benefits:
Stress Relieving can be performed before grinding on parts that require light machining
Often used on weldments
Normalizing
is accomplished by heating the metal above the transformation temperature, then cooling it in still or slightly agitated air.
Benefits:
Refines/reduces the grain size of steels that have been subjected to high temperatures
Prepares steel for heavy machining
When machined, provides a better surface finish
Annealing
is accomplished by heating the metal just below the transformation temperature, then cooling in a controlled cycle which limits the cooling rate and brings the temperature down slowly.
Benefits:
Softens metal
Changes mechanical/electrical properties
Aids in dimensional stability
Greatly improves forming and bending
Equipment
Capacity
Tolerance
Min Hole Size
Max Plate Capacity
Material
Annealing
Max Temperature
= 1400˚ F
Length of Program
= 23 Hours
NA
96” x 144”
Carbon/Alloys Only
Normalizing
Max Temperature
= 1650˚ F
Length of Program
= 9 Hours
NA
96” x 144”
Carbon/Alloys Only
Stress Relieving
Max Temperature
= 1300˚ F
Length of Program
= 9 Hours
NA
96” x 144”
Carbon/Alloys Only
Our furnace is 96” wide x 144” long x 54” high with a weight capacity of 30,000 lbs.
Order flame cut to customer specifications, annealed and ready to ship to specified location.
Alro’s Thermal Processing services gets you this much closer to your finished product.
