Heat Treat Consultant: Mark Baleja

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Name: Mark Baleja
Location: Traverse City, MI
Years in Industry: 45+

Consulting Specialties:

  • Tooling
  • Heat Treating
  • Coatings
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Phone: +231-357-9998

Mark Baleja is a well-respected, self-directed metallurgist and technical sales manager with numerous years of experience in quality control, research & development, failure analysis, continuous improvement, machining and manufacturing, sales, and management.

Publications or Significant Accomplishments:

  • Created heat treat processes such as Thermal Tuf, Case Wear, and steel and material specifications for critical products
  • Developed new materials, coatings, and manufacturing techniques for startup plastics machinery division including HIPing of product, casting, computer controlled hard facing, and developing a new revolutionary steel type
  • “Metallurgical Examinations of Failed Tube Reducing Dies and Mandrels,” presented at the Tube Drawing and Extrusion Conference in Scottsdale AZ, 1996
  • Gave major presentations on the heat treatment and machining of die cast dies at NADCA conferences
  • NADCA Technical Committee Member of the year, 2021
  • Developed specifications and sources for HIPing, atomized powder, and powder metallurgy high speed steel
  • Assisted a company in becoming the first heat treat company to qualify for General Motor’s DC 2012 specification
  • Completed MTI Management Training Program
  • Experience with ISO and Nadcap certifications
  • ASM and MTI courses in ion nitriding, metallurgy, heat treatment and failure analysis
  • Attended several International Tooling Conferences in Europe
  • Member of AIST (Iron and Steel Engineers) since 1992
  • Member of ASTM’s AO1 committee on steel, senior member of the tool steel and high speed steel subcommittees since 1992
  • Member of ASTM’s F42 committee on Additive Manufacturing
  • Member of ASM since 1988

References available upon request

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