Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Service Heat Treating Inc. serves as a kind of dry cleaner to ...

AtmoPlas technology, developed by Dana Corp., generates plasma at atmospheric pressure, without vacuum equipment, to harness microwave energy for joining metal components. Two heating-treating-system ...

When the topic of heat treatment comes up, aluminum is not the first metal that comes to mind. Aluminum is considered a soft metal, but there are alloys of aluminum that respond to heat treatment in a ...

Aluvation’s heat-treatment systems are designed to replicate shipping containers, and can be delivered to a metalcasting location and ready to operate in one to five days. Being an automotive supplier ...

In the past various methods have been employed for heat treating metals, which is usually carried out using large furnaces where an entire object undergoes the heating process. These processes have ...

It wasn’t long after humans discovered metals that they also discovered ways to apply heat to them to change their properties, such as making the metal stronger or more flexible. Here are some concise ...

Metal Finishing Co., a locally owned aerospace parts finishing and inspection company, has been on a mission to expand its capabilities and its operations. It recently added the ability to heat treat ...

MOUNT PLEASANT — Cast iron, that ancient metal, is making a comeback in cookware. And a local heat-treating company is providing a cure for its main fault: rust. Cast iron cookware sales have been ...

Indianapolis-based Contour Hardening Inc., a small manufacturer in the niche metal heat-treating industry, has a new CEO, a new outlook and big plans to more than triple annual revenue in five years.

A lot of colloquial words that we might use when describing something’s durability take on extremely specific meanings when a materials scientist or blacksmith uses them. Things like “strength”, ...