Vacuum Heat Treat & Other Services
Richter Precision Inc. is pleased to provide the highest quality vacuum heat treating service available. We offer vacuum heat treating services at our PA, MI and KY facilities. Our facilities use 2, 6 and 10 bar positive pressure quenching and controlled cooling to maintain stability. Vacuum heat treating is a clean process, which provides a bright, scale free surface.Vacuum heat treating consists of thermally treating metals in heated enclosures that are evacuated to partial pressures compatible with the specific metals and processes. Vacuum is substituted for the more commonly used protective gas atmosphere during part or all of the heat treatment.
The vacuum system ensures that parts processed through heat treating cycles are not contaminated by high temperature reactions and remain free of oxidation and discoloration.
Other benefits of vacuum processing include:
- Bright finish parts
- Minimized distortion
- Uniform heat treating for consistent tensile strength
- Precise temperature control
- Environmentally friendly
- Hardening of tool steels (A-2, D-2, S-7, H-13, etc.)
- Hardening of high speed steels (M-2, M-4, M-42, T-15, CPM 10V, Vanadis 4, etc.)
- Hardening of 400 series stainless steel (416, 420, 440C, etc.)
- Precipitation (Age) hardening (17-4, 13-8, 455, 465, Ti-6Al-4V, etc.)
- Vacuum annealing
- Stress relieving
- Other services - cryogenics
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