Heat Treatment

Bodycote is the market leader in the vacuum heat treatment of aerospace components such as precision cast turbine blades.

Controlled atmosphere heat treatment, case hardening or through hardening and tempering of components such as flap tracks, landing gear parts, flight control items and similar airframe and structural components, represent a significant proportion of the heat treatments carried out by Bodycote for aerospace manufacturers.

Find out more about Bodycote Heat Treatment.

Key solutions:

Vacuum Heat Treatment:

• Ageing
• Annealing
• Homogenising
• Low Pressure Carburising (LPC)
• Plasma Nitriding
• Single crystal vacuum heat treatment
• Solution treatment
• Brazing

Controlled Atmosphere Treatment:

• Carbonitriding
• Carburising
• Case hardening
• Corr-I-Dur
• Gas nitriding
• Hardening and tempering
• Nitrocarburising