Pic: The furnaces on their way to Keighley Laboratories.
Keighley Labs envisages being able to treat a wide variety of components in the new plant to substantially improve their wear resistance, fatigue life and anti-corrosion properties. The treatments are said to be ideal for rail industry components, bearing shafts, cams and crankshafts.
The company is hoping to gain Nadcap accreditation for this new department and Michael Emmott, the divisional commercial director for Keighley Laboratories Heat Treatment division, says: "We've had a lot of interest from customers wanting to send jobs for processing already, but we wanted to conduct sufficient trial runs in order to obtain repetitive results, which will ensure meeting the quality and precision standards that the industry expects of Keighley Laboratories."
Keighley Laboratories' heat treatment plant nears completion
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Keighley Laboratories in West Yorkshire is close to completing the build of a new heat treatment department.
The company is currently installing a gaseous nitriding furnace and a sealed quench gaseous nitrocarburising unit. Keighley Labs' managing director, Debbie Mellor, says once it is finished, the firm will have some of the most modern furnace equipment and process control technology outside of the captive heat treatment sector.
"It will enable us to compete with independent contractors throughout Europe," she says. "We shall be able to regulate the precise parameters for single and multi-stage processes to suit exact customer specifications, allowing us to provide a service that is second to none."
The firm will offer gaseous nitriding and ferritic and austenitic nitrocarburising treatments, the latter used to enhance indentation resistance. Both processes can be used for upgrading components that are made from relatively inexpensive, lower alloy materials.
Pic: The furnaces on their way to Keighley Laboratories.
Keighley Labs envisages being able to treat a wide variety of components in the new plant to substantially improve their wear resistance, fatigue life and anti-corrosion properties. The treatments are said to be ideal for rail industry components, bearing shafts, cams and crankshafts.
The company is hoping to gain Nadcap accreditation for this new department and Michael Emmott, the divisional commercial director for Keighley Laboratories Heat Treatment division, says: "We've had a lot of interest from customers wanting to send jobs for processing already, but we wanted to conduct sufficient trial runs in order to obtain repetitive results, which will ensure meeting the quality and precision standards that the industry expects of Keighley Laboratories."
Pic: The furnaces on their way to Keighley Laboratories.
Keighley Labs envisages being able to treat a wide variety of components in the new plant to substantially improve their wear resistance, fatigue life and anti-corrosion properties. The treatments are said to be ideal for rail industry components, bearing shafts, cams and crankshafts.
The company is hoping to gain Nadcap accreditation for this new department and Michael Emmott, the divisional commercial director for Keighley Laboratories Heat Treatment division, says: "We've had a lot of interest from customers wanting to send jobs for processing already, but we wanted to conduct sufficient trial runs in order to obtain repetitive results, which will ensure meeting the quality and precision standards that the industry expects of Keighley Laboratories."
