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heat treatment

In industry, the subjection of metals and alloys to controlled heating and cooling after fabrication to relieve internal stresses and improve their physical properties. Methods include annealing, quenching, and tempering.



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Whether you decide to perform the austempering in-house or contract a heat-treating facility, incorporating that final step of heat-treating into the initial casting design is important.
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State regulators slapped a Tarzana heat-treating company with more than $150,000 in fines and eight citations after finding the company did not properly ventilate a cooling tank where two Burbank men died earlier this year after being overcome by gas, officials said Thursday.
 
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