Heat Treat Furnaces

Heat treating (or heat treatment) broadly refers to a group of thermal processes in industrial and metalworking applications used to intentionally alter the physical, and sometimes chemical, properties of a material (usually a metal).  These physical and chemical property alterations typically come in the form of hardening or softening of a material via heating in a high temperature furnace or chilling at extreme temperatures.  Heat treating occurs at temperatures above 1,000° F, and often in excess of 1,700° F.

Desired workpiece physical and chemical properties are achieved through heat treatment techniques such as annealing, case hardening, precipitation hardening, tempering, normalizing, and quenching.  Lindberg/MPH designs and manufactures thermal processing and high temperature furnaces that incorporate all these heat treatment techniques that are known for their heating uniformity, low maintenance needs, and cost-effectiveness.