Service Heat Treating Inc. serves as a kind of dry cleaner to the metalworking industry, according to company president Paul Armitage. The company, located at 9320 N. 107th St. in Milwaukee, doesn’t ...

Metal Finishing Co., a locally owned aerospace parts finishing and inspection company, has been on a mission to expand its capabilities and its operations. It recently added the ability to heat treat ...

A lot of colloquial words that we might use when describing something’s durability take on extremely specific meanings when a materials scientist or blacksmith uses them. Things like “strength”, ...

Industrial-size furnaces may have to move over andd make room for microwave ovens for heat treating metal. Engineers at Dana Corp. have developed a way to use microwave ovens to braze, harden, and ...

Steel has been used by humanity for thousands of years. Iron production can be traced back to Anatolia in about 2000 BC, with the iron age well-established by 1000 BC. By 500 BC, iron technology had ...

This article was updated April 26, 2023. It was originally published Oct. 12, 2018. Heat treatments let engineers and metallurgists tailor the properties of metal parts so that they are a better fit ...

Alloys are materials that are made by combining two or more materials to obtain a composite that possesses superior properties than any of its components on its own. The properties of alloys can be ...

A lot of colloquial words that we might use when describing something’s durability take on extremely specific meanings when a materials scientist or blacksmith uses them. Things like “strength”, ...

Indianapolis-based Contour Hardening Inc., a small manufacturer in the niche metal heat-treating industry, has a new CEO, a new outlook and big plans to more than triple annual revenue in five years.