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Quality, durability and reliability are important requirements placed upon the heat treatment of tools.
ALTE GmbH meets these high demands and offers a wide range of heat treatment procedures. By means of innovative technologies, the tools gain the hardness they require for a long and secure life.

Range of Heat Treatments

  • Bath nitriding, Tenifer and SurSulf
  • Salt bath tempering of high-alloy cold work steel and hot work steel
  • Salt bath tempering of HSS steel
  • Salt bath tempering of alloyed and unalloyed steel
  • Salt bath carburisation and case hardening of mass-produced parts
  • Vacuum treatment of high-alloy cold work steel and hot work steel
  • Solution annealing of rust- and acidproofed steel in a vacuum furnace
  • Tempering and tension stress relieving with inert gas
  • Soft annealing with protective gas
  • Gas nitriding
  • Gas nitrocarburising

Range of Parts / Materials

  • Castings of high-alloyed hot work-steel
  • Punching and cutting dies of high-speed steel
  • Special alloys high-alloy cold work steel and hot work steel
  • Components of tool design and construction

Range of Furnaces

  • Salt bath furnaces
  • Vacuum chamber furnaces
  • Evacuable tempering furnaces
  • Evacuable chamber nitriding furnaces
  • Shaft furnaces