Automotive Heat Treating

The automotive heat treat market is diverse, large, and continually growing. Heat treating demands are evolving with the advent of electric cars, but heat treatment of conventional automotive parts remains strong. Parts that are heat treated include: power transmission gears, braking systems, engine components, fasteners and stampings. These parts are made from a variety of heat treatable materials, including mild steel, aluminum, magnesium, and high strength and low alloy steels. The components are made from materials produced by powder metallurgy and wrought metal, including castings and forgings. Processes vary widely, a few examples being annealing, brazing (e.g., processing automotive heat exchangers), case hardening (e.g., carburizing, carbonitriding, ferritic and austenitic nitrocarburizing, nitriding), hardening (e.g., through hardening, selective surface hardening), normalizing, sintering, and solution heat treating (e.g., aluminum). Below is a collection of automotive news and technical articles.

Automotive Technical Content

Automotive Technical Content

Aluminum Extrusion Operations Bring Nitriding In-House
Extral SP. Z o.o., a Polish company specializing in aluminum extrusions, has bolstered its manufacturing capabilities to better serve the construction, ...
Common Automotive Heat Treat Processes To Get Into Gear
How long have you been heat treating automotive gears? Which thermal processing techniques do your operations gravitate towards? In this best ...
“Quench” Your Thirst: 3 Technical Articles To Satisfy Your Needs
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Traveling through Heat Treat: Best Practices for Aero and Auto
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El ensayo de dureza Brinell para principiantes
Cuáles son las características más deseables de un probador de dureza Brinell? Esta reseña del equipo le permitirá evaluar si debe ...
Brinell Hardness Testing 101
What are the most desirable attributes of a Brinell hardness tester? Does it belong in your heat treat department? Read this ...
How Tip-Ups Forever Transformed Brake Rotor Manufacturing
Are your brake rotors heat treated? Travel back in time to discover how ferritic nitrocarburizing (FNC) became the heat treatment of ...
Vacuum Furnaces: Origin, Theory, and Parts
Vacuum furnaces are widely used in the aerospace and automotive industries. These furnaces are used for multiple processes including brazing, aging, ...

Automotive Industry News

Automotive Industry News

Heat Treater Expands To Provide Nitriding Regional Services
Sudosilo S.A., a commercial heat treatment service provider in South America, is bringing premier nitriding to the Argentine industrial sector with ...
Aluminum Extrusion Operations Bring Nitriding In-House
Extral SP. Z o.o., a Polish company specializing in aluminum extrusions, has bolstered its manufacturing capabilities to better serve the construction, ...
Vacuum Furnace for Global Wire Mesh Products Supplier in Auto Industry
A U.S.-based engineered knitted wire mesh solutions company and global supplier for the automotive, food service, and janitorial industries will receive ...
Thermal Loop Solutions, Part 1: A Path to Improved Performance and Compliance in Heat Treatment
How often do you think about the intelligent designs controlling the thermal loop system behind your heat treat operations? With ever-advancing ...
İnsu Teknik Transforms Gas Spring Production
İnsu Teknik, a leader in the gas springs sector of the automotive industry, continues to pioneer innovation as a key supplier ...
News From Abroad: A Glimpse Into the International Market
Heat Treat Today is partnering with two international publications: heat processing, a Vulkan-Verlag GmbH publication that serves mostly the European and ...
EV Manufacturer Upgrades with New Nitriding Furnace
An international electric vehicle manufacturer has selected a heat treat furnace supplier with North American locations for a second nitriding furnace ...
Automotive Parts Manufacturer Increases Production Capacity with Nitriding System
Nikola DzepinaNitrex Regional Manager - AsiaSource: NITREX An automotive parts manufacturer, Baida Electronic Equipment Co. Ltd., has recently increased its production capacity ...
Two CAB Lines en route for Automotive Industry
A Scandinavian manufacturer of heat exchangers has purchased two CAB lines, which will be delivered to factories in Mexico and Poland. ...
“Quench” Your Thirst: 3 Technical Articles To Satisfy Your Needs
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Traveling through Heat Treat: Best Practices for Aero and Auto
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Advancement in Automotive Industry with EV Contract
A component supplier in the automotive industry has secured a multimillion-dollar contract to receive a turnkey automated nitrocarburizing furnace system for ...
El ensayo de dureza Brinell para principiantes
Cuáles son las características más deseables de un probador de dureza Brinell? Esta reseña del equipo le permitirá evaluar si debe ...
Brinell Hardness Testing 101
What are the most desirable attributes of a Brinell hardness tester? Does it belong in your heat treat department? Read this ...
Nitrex and Linde
Nitrex and Linde announced they have renewed and expanded their heat-treating focused joint marketing agreement. What started as a local agreement ...
Formula 1 Partner Boosts Heat Treating Capabilities with Vacuum Furnace
A European subcontractor for the automotive and racing industries as well as a partner for teams participating in Formula 1 races ...
Greener Mobility from the Heat Treat Department
The trend of automotive companies in recent years has been to bet on greener ways of transportation to reduce the carbon ...
NC Forgings Producer Secures Heat Treat Line
A roller hearth iso-thermal annealing line for steel automotive impression forgings is to be installed for a major American producer located ...