Aluminum Processing
Cincinnati Steel Treating is the area’s number one aluminum heat treating specialist. This includes solution treating, aging, stress relieving and annealing of both cast and wrought aluminum products. Whether aluminum hardening or annealing is required, CST is able to meet our client’s heat-treating needs.
Aluminum comes in many different shapes and sizes. It can be forged, extruded, cast, or rolled. There are heat-treatable grades as well as pure alloy grades. Of the heat-treatable grades, processing can include solution and aging, annealing, stress relieving, or simply aging from the as-produced condition. Cincinnati Steel Treating is capable of performing all of them. These heat treatments are performed to achieve certain specific properties, and a special letter designation is attached to the name of the alloy grade to reflect the heat treatment that was performed. The letter O stands for annealed, W for solution treated, and T for solution, aged and tempered to a condition other than O. Refer to the Aluminum Assocation Standards or to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for more specific information. Let the engineers at Cincinnati Steel Treating help you find the correct aluminum heat treatment for your needs.
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Cincinnati Steel Treating Facilities for Processing Aluminum
For solution treating, we have six furnaces up to 60 inches in diameter X 60 inches deep. For aging and stress relieving our largest furnace is 10 ft. x 14 ft. x 3.5 ft, complemented by two other, smaller box furnaces. All aging furnaces are certified to AMS 2750. When distortion from solution treating is a problem, special processing involving polymer quenching or boiling water quenching is available.
Advantages of Aluminum Processing at Cincinnati Steel Treating
Cincinnati Steel Treating has heat treated a vast array of aluminum parts from industries including automotive, general industrial, food processing, and metal stamping. We know how to avoid many of the pitfalls that commonly occur when heat treating aluminum including excessive distortion and surface oxidation. Our robust quality systems that are certified to ISO 14001, IATF 16949, and ITAR can
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For over 80 years, we’ve helped our clients across many industries improve production time and parts performance, quickly and efficiently. Turnaround times are fast and quality control is precise. As your outsourcing partner, we provide solutions to take your results to the next level.