Heat treatment is the process of heating and cooling of metals to change the steel's physical and mechanical properties without changing the original shape and size. The most common heat treatment material is carbon steel.
Heat treatment is often associated with increasing the strength of the steel, but it can also be used to alter certain manufacturability objectives such as improve machinability, formability, restore ductility etc. Thus heat treatment is a very useful process to helps other manufacturing processes and also improve product performance by increasing strength or provides other desirable characteristics.
High carbon steels are particularly suitable for heat treatment, since carbon steel respond well to heat treatment and the commercial use of steels exceeds that of any other material. After heat treatment, the steel surface can be grided in different surface color. Pleae refer to the surface finish webpage for more information..
With over 20 years experiences of heat treatment technical manpowers, NKS Steel can provides many difference types of heat treatment processes. Each heat treatment individual process provides different desirable characteristics to the product. . For a quote and advice on all your hardening and heat treatment needs, contact us now.
After heat treatment process, steel strips can be re-rolled into ribbon-wound coils (pancake) or oscillated-wound coils (oscillation coils). For more detail please refer to the Main Steel / Steel Strip.