Excellent formability combined with a high carbon content is the trademark of our steels for quenching and tempering. These steels can undergo additional heat treatment by the customer to be hardened and tempered. Steels for hardening and tempering are the base material for the toe caps in safety boots or for the plates for timing chains in automobile engines.
They are also very suitable for fine blanking and ensure extremely smooth and precise stamped surfaces. Our steels for hardening and tempering can also be bonderized in a subsequent treatment step in order to extend tool life. There are several ways to benefit from the potential of our steels for quenching and tempering.
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Our steels for hardening and tempering are characterized by exceptional formability and a high carbon content. This makes them easy to transform into plates and bushes for bicycle chains, and subsequent thermal treatment makes them extremely robust and durable.
Our steels for hardening and tempering combine easy processing with a long service life of the finished heat-treated part. This is why they are often used for the links in industrial chains of all kinds, which, for example, must be particularly wear-resistant as drive or gear chains.
Centrifugal clutches make it possible to start a drive motor, for example of a chainsaw, without any load. Centrifugal clutch housings need to exhibit nearly isotropic properties. For this purpose, Waelzholz’s steel for hardening and tempering offers highly uniform properties and geometric sizes across many delivery batches.
High-performance nose sprockets are extremely wear-resistant and feature a high-precision chain guide. Whether in bicycles or industrial drives, our steel for hardening and tempering can be precisely formed into the required shape. Thanks to its high carbon content, it is robust and durable after piece hardening.
