WHY OUTSOURCE HEAT TREATMENT ?
For years now outsourcing has defined the new economics and functioning of industry. Companies are increasingly looking to outsource processes they consider non-core which allows them not just savings in terms of cost but also makes it possible for them to focus on what their core business is and on their customer.
Heat treatment is one such non-core manufacturing process, that is across the world seen an incremental shift from elaborate captive or in-house heat treatment facilities to outsourced heat treatment by a specialist. And the reasons are obvious.
- Reduces in-house overheads
- Releases valuable workspace for core activities
- Improves carbon footprint – Energy consumption is the biggest Heat Treatment associated cost, so outsourcing non-core thermal processing enables customers to implement plant-wide carbon reduction initiatives, as well as cutting waste disposal costs
- Eliminates Compliance issues, Heat Treatment specific Accreditation and Documentation tasks
- Lower capital investment
- Frees internal resources for core business
- Improves cost control – the actual cost of running an in-house Heat Treatment facility is often seriously undervalued, even largely unknown, whereas an outsourcing arrangement represents a known, fixed cost, strictly controlled by the contract agreement and agreed technical specifications
- Sharpens company focus – by outsourcing an important, demanding but non-core process like heat treatment, the company is able to focus its energy and resources on core competencies and meeting customer needs, helping managers set clear business priorities
PROCESS CAPABILITY
We provide inhouse process capability like Hardening, Tempering, Annealing, Carburizing, Nitriding, Solution Annealing, Vacuum Hardening, Vacuum Annealing, Vacuum Brazing.
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STEEL : GENERAL HEAT TREATMENT SERVICES
- Stress Relieving
- Annealing
- Spheroidized Annealing
- Normalizing
- Bright Annealing
- Harden & Temper
1.B
STEEL : SPECIAL PROCESS
- Gas Carburizing in Pit Furnace
- Gas Carburizing in SQF
- Gas Nitriding
- Gas Nitro-Carburizing
- Gas Carbo-Nitriding in Sealed Quench Furnace
- Selective Carburizing and Selective Nitriding
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STEEL : MARTENSITIC (400 SERIES)
- Normalizing
- Annealing
- Hardening
- Sub Zero Treatment
- Tempering
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STEEL : AUSTENITIC
- Solution Annealing (300 Series)
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PH STEELS : 15 – 5PH, 17-4 PH, 17- 7PH & 13- 8M0
- Solutionising
- Austenitic Conditioning
- Ageing to different conditions
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NICKEL ALLOYS – INCONEL TYPE
- Annealing
- Solutionising
- Ageing
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MAGNETIC IRONS, RADIO METAL
- Annealing under Hydrogen/Argon atmosphere
- Annealing in Vacuum Furnace
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TOOL STEELS & H.S.S
- Annealing
- Stress Relieving
- Hardening in Vacuum Furnace
- Triple Tempering
- Sub Zero Treatment
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ALUMINIUM ALLOYS
- Annealing
- Solutionising in Drop Bottom Quench Furnace
- Artificial/Natural Ageing
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MAGNETIC IRONS, RADIO METAL
- Vacuum Annealing
- Vacuum Hardening
- Vacuum Stress Relieving
- Vacuum Brazing
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TOOL STEELS & H.S.S
- Machining on a Turning Center
- Machining on a Milling Center
- Vibro-Deburring
THERELEK UNIQUE ADVANTAGE
- Modern Instrumentation ensuring complete batch-wise traceability and process accountability
- Process review and consulting by in-house Metallurgists
- Process Simulation and Output Analysis with projected performance data
- Wide range of Process Capabilities
The key to world class heat treatment is process control. Process control makes it possible to attain desired result repeatedly with minimum deviation. This is where Therelek excels - continuous standardization and refinement of processes, process documentation and traceability, meticulous planning and scheduling - all of which assure timely, cost-effective results to delight our customers.
"Therelek's state-of-the-art Heat Treatment facility in Bangalore is widely considered to be one of the best Heat Treatment facilities in the country with the most stringent
Quality Certifications, an exhaustive Process Capability range and customer approvals from some of the world's most quality conscious organizations.
A distinguished Commercial Heat Treater, Therelek is the first in India to be bestowed with the prestigious NADCAP accreditation. Expertize in developing and optimizing heat treatment processes for an exhaustive range of materials, with a wide process capability range and the distinct virtue of being able to cater to the quality and volume requirements that every customer sets."
LABORATORIES & IN-HOUSE TESTING FACILITIES
In-house laboratories were set up in Therelek with the aim to carry out Microstructural Analysis, Hardness, Testing, Calibration, Pyrometry and related activities.
It is manned by well experienced technical staff with many years of experience and headed by a team of qualified Metallurgists with long experience in production laboratories. The laboratory caters to internal assessment and also renders service to external agencies looking for dependable and technically competent reporting. Our laboratory is specialized in Surface Contamination and the Quench Severity test carried out for aerospace quality standards. To complement the Hardness Testing Facilities the image analyzer installed comes in handy for analyzing the microstructure and establishes
the acceptance standards for retained austenite, the cementite network grain size and so on.
Therelek undertakes calibration of thermocouples and furnaces for various organizations on contract basis. The calibration is done as per international standards like AMS 2750 and RPS 953. The thermocouples used for calibration are controlled for the number of uses.
The industry looks up to Therelek for its testing process and unbiased reporting and it is Therelek's commitment to continuously upgrade its facilities to stay abreast with the best in the world.
METALLURGICAL LABORATORY
- Rockwell Hardness Testing: C, A, N (Superficial) & B scales
- Vickers Hardness Testing: Range 3, 5, 10, 30, 50 Kg
- Micro Vickers Hardness Testing: Range 10 g to 1000 g
- Metallurgical Microscope with Image Analyzer with magnifications of 50 X to 1000 X
PYROMETRY LABORATORY
- Temperature Uniformity Survey
- System Accuracy Test of Furnaces
- Thermocouple Calibration for types: R, S, J, K & N over a range of 70°C to 1250°C
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Heat Treatment in a Special Process performed on any metal or alloy which in its real world application is subjected to motion, stress, temperature or a combination of the three.
The key to world class Heat Treatment is Process Control. Process control makes it possible to attain the desired result repeatedly with minimum deviation. This is where Therelek excels - conformity to the most stringent global standards, standardization and refinement of processes, process documentation and traceability.
