Sun Steel Treating
Since 1958, Sun Steel Treating Inc. has specialized in providing our customers precision and specialty Salt Bath Heat Treatments. Whether it's hardening alloys, carbon steels, tool steels or high speed specialty tools, our engineers know the precise metallurgical processes to apply to your steels. Sun Steel Treating also offers Ionitriding (ion nitriding or plasma nitriding), salt bath hardening, salt bath heat treating and steam treating.
sun steel treating
Sun Steel Treating has specialized in providing our customers precision and specialty Salt Bath Heat Treatments since 1958. Whether Nitriding and hardening alloys, carbon steels, tool steels or high speed specialty tools, our engineers know the metallurgical processes to apply to your steels. Not only the right heat and quench cycles and the precise temperatures, but all with minimal distortion.
Since 1958, Sun Steel Treating Inc. has specialized in providing our customers precision and specialty Salt Bath Heat Treatments. Whether it's hardening alloys, carbon steels, tool steels or high speed specialty tools, our engineers know the precise metallurgical processes to apply to your steels. Not only the right heat and quench cycles and the precise temperatures, but all with minimal distortion.In 1981, Sun Steel Treating Inc. pioneered the use of Plasma Nitriding, as a viable surface hardening treatment in this country, developing new equipment, technology, and processes to meet the diverse application needs of modern manufacturing. Trade-marking and registering this process as Ionitriding, Sun continues to lead the field both in capability and quality today.In addition to these processes, Sun performs Steam Treating services for many applications and has developed IonWear(R), a registered trademark process designed to combine the benefits of Ionitriding and steam treating for special components.Sun offers complete metallurgical services to meet the demanding requirements of our customers. Our staff of experts stand ready to tackle your toughest application.
As part of the FabSouth and Canam Group, Inc., SunSteel LLC has access to 807,000 tons of steel fabrication capacity. This allows us to bring you and your client unparalleled buying power.
Horizontal front loading, vacuum heat treating and brazing furnaces generally designed for high production commercial and captive heat treating shops. High temperature, high vacuum, batch type furnace with electric resistance heating elements.
With all this "after the fact" knowledge in our hands, we decided to scrapany other capital improvement programs in favor of improving our heat-treating programs ina big way. Once in this new frame of mind, we decided to improve far more than just ourtempered-laminated production products.
Some of the problems we were running into with our second-generation tempering line(four to nine years old) were: Low-E coatings and their flatness control;
Sun reflectives and roller distortion;
Quench breakage of heavy glass with notches and cut-outs;
Inability to control oven evenly;
Inability to know our surface temperatures in over or upon exit;
More and more sophisticated glass types that needed exceptions to the basic computer heating profiles; and
Poor thin-glass quality.
Investing in the Future of Heat StrengtheningWe all agreed that we needed a new program for our heat treating of glass. That’swhen I knew it was the time to invest in yet another "capital improvement"program. The executive board approved and my job was to get the checkbook ready.
The small line is a 56- by 104-inch capacity line, and excels with thin products. Ithas more blower boost capacity. We need two blowers for cooling the 1,300 degree F glasswith this line and it is a "screamer." Believe it or not, we put the blowers ona steel superstructure and enclosed them on the roof of our building directly above theline. We call it the "penthouse." It’s nice and quiet near this line . . .and at the senior citizen home next door, the residents don’t hear a thing! 041b061a72