Welcome to Heat Treat Today’s This Week in Heat Treat Social Media. From mind-bending materials to mesmerizing shop-floor videos — and even a few LEGO bricks — heat treat social media had a little bit of everything! We scrolled, watched, learned, and smiled our way through posts that remind us why this industry is equal parts science, craft, and creativity.
As you know, there is so much content available on the web that it’s next to impossible to sift through all of the articles and posts that flood our inboxes and notifications on a daily basis. So, Heat Treat Today is here to bring you the latest in compelling, inspiring, and entertaining heat treat news from the different social media venues that you’ve just got to see and read! If you have content that everyone has to see, please send the link to editor@heattreattoday.com.
1. Looped and Loaded
Warning: this reel of glowing steel coiling in real time may cause viewings…on loop. Mastars Industries brings the shop floor to your screen, showing molten-hot metal bending and twisting with hypnotic precision.
2. Foamed Metals Head to Space
In honor of National Bubble Wrap Day, Ipsen took a nostalgic (and futuristic) look back at its work with NASA in the 1960s. The post revisits how foamed metals — often likened to bubble wrap — were explored for lightweight, heat-resistant applications in space.
3. Forging + Metallurgy + Heat Treat = 🔥
The Forging Industry Association was right: watching a glowing billet get squeezed into shape never gets old. Impression die forging gets a clear, engaging showcase that reminds us why classic manufacturing techniques still matter.
4. Metallurgy Brain Teaser
This post from Metallurgical Engineering serves up a quick #metallurgyquiz to test your materials instincts. Are you smarter than your microstructure?
5. LEGO Meets Heat Treatment
SECO/WARWICK brings a playful twist to serious tech on LEGO Day, showing heat treat principles with a LEGO build that earns a smile.
6. Underwater Forging? What Wizardry Is This?
This post is sure to induce some head-scratching among our metallurgists. Is it AI or some genius innovation?
7. Fun Friday Goes Mini-Metal
Heat Treat Today’s own Fun Friday post brightens up the day with curious kids and heat treat fun — proof that inspiration starts young…and queens = 🔥!
8. When Slag Comes Alive
This mesmerizing reel captures molten slag as it cools from 1100°C to 920°C, revealing crystals forming in real time under a high-temperature confocal laser scanning microscope. Swoon-worthy, especially with Olivia Dean singing in the background!
9. Heat Treat Radio Takes on Energy Policy
Heat Treat Radio connects energy policy to the realities of manufacturing. Informative, timely, and worth adding to your listening queue.
10. Celebrating the People Behind the Process
February is Black History Month, and MetalTek International reflects on a century of honoring the achievements, resilience, and lasting impact of Black leaders and innovators — including those who have shaped American manufacturing. A thoughtful reminder that the strength of our industry is built by people from all backgrounds, past and present.
From serious engineering insights to lighthearted LEGO builds, this week’s round-up of heat treat social media posts proves there’s no single way to tell the industry’s story. Whether you’re here to learn, be inspired, or just enjoy watching metal move, we’ll keep bringing you the posts worth a pause in your feed. Have a great weekend!
