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Heat Treatment & Finishing

All steel castings require heat treatment to achieve the correct metallurgical properties prior to shipment.

The heat treatment processes available inhouse are:
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⦁    Normalising of Steel
⦁    Annealing of Steels
⦁    Stress Relief Annealing of Irons and Steels
⦁    Quench and Tempering of Steels
⦁    Solution Annealing of Stainless Steels
⦁    Precipitation hardening of Stainless Steels
 

Austral Alloys has four electric heat treatment furnaces all of which provide calibrated temperature control and continuous data logging. All furnaces are controlled & monitored by Shimaden Microscan wireless technology allowing them to be accessed remotely via laptop and are accompanied by water or air blast quenching facilities.

Furnace Specifications

Furnace 1

  • Silicon Carbide "Glow Bar" unit rated to 1250 deg C

  • Load capacity 450mm x 450mm x 1200mm

  • Equipped with water quench facilities
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Furnace 2

  • Rated to 700 deg C

  • Load capacity 450mm x 450mm x 1200mm

  • Electric resistant element heating and fan circulation for accurate low temperature tempering of alloy steels and for stress relief annealing
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Furnace 3

  • 105 Kw 3000kg bogie hearth furnace

  • Heated by Silicon Carbide glow bars

  • Rated to 1250 deg C.

  • Load capacity 2000mm x 1500mm x 1200mm

  • Equipped with an 8000 litre water quench tank

  • Used for Quench & temper, normalising, annealing, solution annealing and stress relieving
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Furnace 4

  • 105 Kw 3000kg bogie hearth furnace

  • Heated by Silicon Carbide glow bars

  • load capacity 2000mm x 1500mm x 1200mm

  • Equipped with an 8000 litre water quench tank

  • used for Quench & Temper, normalising, annealing, tempering and stress relieving

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