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HEF Group expands its footprint in South-West Michigan

June 1, 2018

• Tech Nickel Inc. – located in Benton Harbor, MI – about 2-hours from Chicago, IL – a long-standing provider of HEF’s trademarked Liquid Nitriding treatments; electroless nickel platings, hard chrome and nickel-chrome platings, is now part of the HEF Group as a fully-owned subsidiary. In addition, Tech Nickel has also developed Tech-Kote - a thermo-chemical treatment for ferrous metals which improves resistance to weld spatter.
• The Tech Nickel facility is ISO 9001:2008 certified and provides electroless nickel to meet AMS 2404, ASTM B733 and Mil-C-26074 specifications. Hard Chrome platings meet AMS 2460 and AMS QQ-C-320 specifications.
• For application and sales inquiries, please contact: sales@hefusa.com

 

TS USA starts a new Liquid Nitriding facility in Phoenix, AZ

January 1, 2017

• TS USA now has a Liquid Nitriding facility in Phoenix, AZ operating under the name of TS WEST. This facility is operated in partnership with Controlled Thermal Technology (CTT - http://www.cttaz.com), a company that provides a diverse range of heat treatment services out of this facility. So, this dual service facility can heat treat and subsequently nitride customer components.
• TS WEST offers HEF’s trademarked MELONITE® treatments.
• For application and sales inquiries, please contact: sales@hefusa.com

 

TS USA starts a new Liquid Nitriding facility in Chattanooga, TN

September 1, 2017

FACILITY FEATURES

• 35,000 sq. ft. facility.
• 50-ft ceiling clearance: equipped to handle large & heavy parts.
• 5-minutes off the I-27 freeway – near downtown Chattanooga.
• Adequate floor space for future expansion into other surface engineering technology solutions, such as PVD coatings.

STATE-OF-THE-ART LIQUID NITRIDING (SALT BATH NITRIDING) LINE

• Largest operating equipment in North America. Part size capability:
• Maximum Length: 8 feet (2.5 m). With flipping: 15 feet (4.6 m)
• Weight: 4,000 lbs. (1,800 kg.) With special arrangement: 6,000 lbs.
• Fully instrumented, computer controlled and capable of remote monitoring. Batch-to-batch traceability and process recording.
• Designed to treat parts using the Quench-Polish-Quench (QPQ) process (originally developed by HEF Durferrit); and other Liquid Nitriding variations including HEF trademarked ARCOR®/MELONITE® treatments.
• An in-line, post-nitriding impregnation process can provide an added level of corrosion protection and surface lubricity to the nitrided components.
• The facility is equipped with a variety of post-nitriding surface finishing processes to ensure a customer and application specific surface finish can be achieved after nitriding.
• An on-site lab is equipped to mount and polish treated samples for metallographic examination and micro-hardness evaluation of the nitrided layer.
• Facility to be Automotive TS 16949 certified by July 2018.
• For application and sales inquiries, please contact: sales@hefusa.com