Does this process replace a heat treat process? If we already have a very high quality heat treat process, are there still any benefits from the COLDfire Process?
The COLDfire process does not replace, but rather complements, the heat treatment process. Even the highest quality heat treatment process does not fully optimize the wear characteristics of the material. The key innovation in the COLDfire process is our ability to regulate and cycle the temperatures in our cryogenic chamber. This allows us to create individual ‘profiles’ for different types of materials or applications. As the heat treatment operators have known for over 100 years, different metals will harden differently at different temperatures. In its own way, therefore, there are different profiles used during heat treatment based on type of metal and desired hardness level. In fact, there are well known industry temperature curves for the heat side of metal treatment that show where specific metal transformations occur. The COLDfire process does something similar on the cold side, but works in extremely negative temperatures.
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