Self Hardening Steels


Vacuum heat treatments are suitable for moulds, stamps, tools and for pieces used in the aeronautics industry, automotive industry and machine-tool industry.

The capacity of our installations is up to 1200 x 800 mm. Our equipments cool down the pieces with nitrogen. The cooling speed is up to 10 bar and the equipments reach temperatures up to 1250ÂșC and a vacuum level up to 10 -4 mb.

As main advantages of vacuum heat treatments are that the surface of the material is not changed at all and the low appearance of distortions.

Other kind of vacuum heat treatments offered are the following:
  • Annealing
  • Austempering
  • Precipitation or steel ageing