Events

Event of the Härtereikkreis Hannover with company tour. Further information will follow.

Event organized by the Ortenau Heat Treatment Group. Lecture: "Safety technology in heat treatment"; Speaker: Thomas Scholz, Process Technology

Heat treatment in medical technology: Charging with fiber ceramics for heat treatment with high quality requirements. Speaker: Dr. Mathias Kunz, Managing Director of WPX Faserkeramik GmbH, Troisdorf

In many areas of thermochemical heat treatment of steel, carbonitriding has emerged as a process for highly stressed components, in particular for components subjected to overrolling or comparable loads. In the past, carbonitriding was mainly used to increase the hardness or hardenability of unalloyed steels. For this purpose, a fixed percentage of ammonia was added to a carburizing atmosphere at relatively low temperatures of approx. 870 °C. The ammonia was added to the carbonitrided steel.

Aluminum is the second most common construction material. And yet the material is often neglected alongside its big brother, steel. Even though aluminum is not so universally applicable, it still offers a wide range of possibilities - provided you can adjust the conditions accurately. The heat treatment of aluminum is therefore an important but also exciting topic. We are looking forward to an exciting presentation by Mr. Thorsten Beitz (Petrofer GmbH) with the title Warpage reduction during quenching of Al components Mr. Beitz will give us an insight into a fascinating world. In addition to the basics of aluminum alloys, he will highlight important components of heat treatment and give some application examples.

Case hardening, i.e. the combination of carburizing and hardening, is the process of choice when it comes to achieving maximum strength. In order to use case hardening sensibly and to be able to compare different process variants with each other, basic knowledge of materials and process engineering is required. This seminar focuses on gas and low-pressure carburizing.

The seminar teaches the basics of metallography and explains the relationships between the various structural elements and their properties.

The practical seminar teaches the basics of technical heat treatment and its processes. Participants should gain an understanding of how to select and assess suitable heat treatment processes, recognize the limits and errors and understand the effects on the functionality or failure of components and apply them in practice.