Heat-treatment - Advantages

Heat-treatment of materials principally improves their properties regarding to their intended use. Often the following material properties are required and achieved by heat-treatment:

• high strength in the case of mechanically high stressed structural parts
• high hardness for tribologically high strained parts
• high ductility to avoid formation of cracks in case of alternating stress
• increase of corrosion resistance
• stress relieving for improvement of mechanical treatment after forming processes
• higher purity for ultra-high vacuum applications