Here, Roger Haw, Managing Director of Flame Hardeners Ltd. and current Chairman of the Contract Heat Treatment Association, provides an overview of the heat treatment industry today.
The heat treatment industry provides heat treatment services to a very wide variety of engineering companies and machine shops. The reason it exists is that only the very large or very specialised companies, can justify investing in facilities of their own.
Heat treatment processes and the benefits they bestow upon component performance are better than they have ever been. However, these benefits do come at a cost.
Read the full article in DPA's April issue