Thermetco & Thermetco Services Mobiles : Nonferrous Metals

Modify their mechanical characteristics and result in improved applications.

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Heat treatments can be performed with equal effectiveness on nonferrous metals, such as aluminum, copper and magnesium alloys. These treatments will modify their mechanical characteristics and result in improved applications.

Most aluminum alloys can be hardened by cold working. The same results can be obtained by heat-treating: a first treatment known as solution annealing is followed by water quenching. The final hardening step involves maintaining the parts at a relatively low temperature. This last process is called artificial aging.

Aluminum and aluminum alloys

• Homogenizing;
• Softening;
• Stress relieving;
• Structural quenching : solution annealing + quenching + aging;
• Full annealing.

Copper and copper alloys
Of the many types of copper alloys, the main ones are: low alloy copper, brass, bronze, aluminum bronze and cupronickel.

• Homogenizing;
• Softening;
• Stress relieving;
• Structural quenching : solution annealing + quenching + aging;
• Full annealing.

Magnesium and magnesium alloys
The most current alloys are magnesium-aluminum and magnesium-zirconium.

• Homogenizing;
• Softening;
• Stress relieving;
• Structural quenching : solution annealing + quenching + aging;
• Full annealing.

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