CryoHeat Metal Treatment

• Greater strength
• Better wear resistance
• Reduced thermal temperatures
• Reduces friction
• Reduces surface roughness
• Relieves microscopic stress fractures
• Refines the molecular grain structure
• Allows the machining of parts to tighter tolerances
• Increases dimensional stability on critical components
• Increases component durability and greater longevity
• Promoting significant savings on valuable repair time and parts replacement
• 2 to 4 times the service life and 20 – 50% stronger metal

CryoHeat guarantees about 50% savings or more after the treatment; saving in service, repair, and replacement of metal parts.

During the process of manufacturing, production and the machining phases on a molecular level materials are subject to strenuous events.  These events cause molecular displacement or gaps in the matrix during the solidification stages. These gaps are out of place molecules that are not working in uniform with one another but are displaced and can even be working against each other. This causes a lack of strength and toughness; placing a great amount of stress on the newly formed object.

Textural Stress – Arises because of microscopic inhomogeneities in a metal.

Body Stress – Stress created or produced by an external load and contingent body stress when the load is removed.

Residual Stress – The Remains after a load is removed and clearly seen as the retention of stress cracks. It is impossible to cold work steel without creating stress on the metal. The most common major stress is caused by the machining or altering of the parts by any form of metal removal. Grinding can produce temperatures in excess of 1650° F. This produces great amounts of surface stress.

With Conventional Heat Treatment & Tempering, parts go through extreme amounts of stress-inducing phases. Consider taking a bar of steel that’s been heated to 1472°F for an extended period so the temperature is even throughout the metal – then plunging that steel into water that is 68°F. The rapid cooling reduces the surface temperature almost instantaneously while the interior of the structure is still red hot. Although the heat does dissipate, it does not dissipate uniformly. Therefore the radical cooling of the outer and inner core in a non-uniform way causes compression stresses, which need to be stabilized.  The part now needs to be tempered to stabilize the newly formed martensite. If this is not completed, the inherent stresses are so built up they can cause the part to crack or literally explode. Because such high temperatures are needed to relieve the stress, more austenite grain structures are transformed from martensite, creating yet another stress layer.

The best and most complete way to remove built-up stresses from heat treating and manufacturing is through the use of cryogenic temperatures at CryoHeat Metal Treatment.  A properly done Deep Cryogenic Treatment will ensure stress relief.  The CryoHeat process will never change the color of the metal in any way, as it will change with heat treatment.  CryoHeat Metal Treatment performs cryogenic processing by simply allowing the molecules to realign in a uniform like fashion. This releases any stored energy that may be trapped in the object. This in turn increases strength & toughness within the object as it relaxes back to its proper positioning. The molecules are now working in an orderly and uniform fashion with one another. There are also changes happening on the surface of the material. The gaps along the surface are reduced and are in a more uniform state tightening the Lattice Sphere.

Deep Cryogenic Treatment is done in a controlled environment with a CryoHeat processor and special proprietary formula is a very viable stress reliever and can also be used where heat cannot. The CryoHeat process will never change the color of the metal in any way, as it will change with heat treatment.  It can be used prior to; during or after the machining of materials. It is a thorough stress reliever all the way through and not just an exterior stress relief as is the case with shot and laser peening and many other ways that only work on the surface until it wears out and still has insufficient material below. During the CryoHeat process, there is also precipitation of fine extra carbides throughout the metal, this is in addition to the larger carbides already present in the ferrous metals. These fine carbides increase the bond within the molecular structure of the metals; which in turn increases wear resistance again.

The Cryogenic process must be strict and deliberate with slow changes in temperatures occurring. CryoHeat is able to perform this within 1° increment. The post-temp process must be just as absolute. That is why you need to use CryoHeat Metal treatment.  Our company has spent more time doing research and development for many applications.

All Metals and more!  Gold, Platinum, Titanium, Inconel, Nickel, Cobalt, Crome-Moly, Aluminum, Brass, Copper, Steel, Plastic, Composite Materials, Castings, Forgings, etc… They all can be stress relieved by CryoHeat Metal Treatment; properly, slowly, and deliberately enough to allow for molecular realignment and no redistribution of, or creating of, more stresses by rapid temperature fluctuations. WE GUARANTEE IT!!!