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Growth projected for specialist
heat treatment services
DEBBIE Mellor, MD of metallurgical and
laboratory service specialist Keighley
Laboratories, is projecting 25% growth for
the firm’s heat treatment business.
Much of this increased customer demand
is being driven by its gas-fired pit furnace
facility, one of only a handful in the UK, which
accommodates metal components vertically
and enables processes like carburising, case
hardening, carbonitriding and tempering
to be carried out with minimal distortion,
in accordance with precise customer
specifications. The company has also
commissioned a new jig to enable an even
wider range of components to be processed,
including large rectangular blocks.
The company’s heat treatment division
offers a comprehensive range of surface
engineering services to UK engineers, which
also includes induction hardening, hardening
and tempering, stress relieving, ferritic
nitrocarburising or Tufftriding, austempering
and martempering, and normalising, with
nitriding to be added once the scheduled
new building programme is complete.
Working to BS EN ISO 9001, BS EN
9100 and aerospace standard AS9100 rev
B, it serves a broadening customer base
that takes in the construction and mining,
engineering, petrochemical, oil and gas,
aviation, transport, defence, nuclear and
energy markets, giving clients access to
in-depth metallurgical experience and
expertise.
“Our expertise really focuses on our
highly accurate furnace controls, which
we program in-house, and the immense
knowledge and skills of our qualified
staff, including our furnace operators who
undergo rigorous training and continuous
skills development,” said heat treatment
commercial manager Michael Emmott,
who has had hands-on experience of all
processes and provides technical support
in the field. “We work in close partnership
with our customers, helping them to develop
Heat treatment