ALD’s heat treatment services (as described below) are capable of the following processes:

  • Vacuum Carburizing
  • Plasma Carburizing
  • Vacuum Hardening
  • Vacuum Annealing
  • Vacuum Normalizing
  • Vacuum Tempering
  • Vacuum Stress Relief
  • Vacuum Brazing
  • High Temperature Vacuum Nitriding
  • Vacuum Aging
  • Air Tempering
  • Metallurgical Testing

 Our furnaces are equipped with a convective heating system, achieving very short heating times with excellent temperature uniformity. The external radial fans provide highest quenching severity, but simultaneously highest quenching uniformity.

 

Mass flow controllers allow the precise control and repeatability of the carburising process.

 

ALD offers complete turn-key production solutions with pre-installed processes.  ALD’s in-house development team can also develop new processes designed to satisfy customer’s specific requirements for a large spectrum of working pieces like:

 

  • Gears
  • Shafts
  • Pinions
  • Diesel Injection Systems
  • Nozzles
  • Bearings

The various types of furnaces from highest flexibility to highest throughput allow ALD to offer a tailor-made concept for our customer’s needs and requirements.