Metallurgical Consulting
Cincinnati Steel Treating (CST) has over 80 years of metallurgical expertise in performing heat treatments on various metallic components including cast irons, steels, stainless steels, tool steels, and non-ferrous parts including aluminum, copper, and titanium.
CST has designed a huge variety of heat treatments for a wide assortment of parts made out of many different materials. The processes we regularly perform include induction hardening, carburizing, nitriding, flame-hardening, carbo-nitriding, annealing, solution treating and aging, stress relieving, and heat-assisted fabrication operations. We have heat treated steel, stainless steel, cast iron, copper, aluminum, and titanium.
Allow our Metallurgical Expertise to work for you
How do I heat treat this part?
Choosing the best heat treatment for a particular part or application can be a daunting task. What properties do I want? Which treatment can best achieve them? Am I looking for wear resistance? Corrosion resistance? Cross sectional strength? Toughness? CST’s metallurgists can help you with all of these questions. We have worked on applications in every industry from miltary to automotive to food and beverage to construction and many more. We have seen it all, and we have worked with it all. Allow this expertise to benefit you.
Navigating Specifications and Quality Systems
Cincinnati Steel Treating (CST) is certified to ISO 9001, ISO 14001, IATF 16949, and ITAR. We have experience working with military, automotive, oil and gas, and government agency specifications. We regularly heat treat to ASTM, AMS, SAE, AGMA, AWS, and DIN specs. We have a vast amount of experience in complying with these and other assorted specifications, and we can act as a guide for you to determine how best to design a heat treatment for your application. Consult with one of our metallurgists today.
Failure Analysis
Cincinnati Steel Treating (CST) offers failure analysis services for our customers. We have a fully equipped metallurgical laboratory capable of sectioning parts, mounting and polishing samples, measuring chemistry, performing stereoscopic analysis, carrying out hardness traverses, and conducting mutiple types of etching procedures. Our breadth and depth of experience with heat treatments gives us a deep base of knowledge to draw upon when conducting failure analysis. Our reports can be used to supply you with background information when dealing with vendors, or they can assist in product development in helping to determine the optimum process to use when treating your part. Talk to one of our metallurgists if you would like to find out more.
Allow us to help you with your metallurgical challenges
For over 80 years, we’ve helped our clients across many industries improve production time and parts performance, quickly and efficiently. Turnaround times are fast and quality control is precise. As your outsourcing partner, we provide solutions to take your results to the next level.