Metal Improvement Company specializes in thermal processing of metal parts for a variety of industries, ranging from critical components for aircraft to high volume parts for automobiles. Thermal processes, such as heat treating, relieve stresses within fabricated metal parts and improves their overall strength, ductility and hardness. (read more)

Twenty-five years ago, laser welding was used only for exotic applications. Today, it is a full-fledged part of the metalworking and regularly produces welds for common items.

Lasers also offer new possibilities for the selective heat treatment of metal parts. (read more)

We do electric vacuum annealing and stress relieving, as well as local annealing by induction heating. (read more)

Lanly Company designs and builds custom heat processing solutions for steel heat treating, including various conveyorized draw furnaces up through the 1250° F. range. Batch-type and car bottom furnaces are also available. (read more)

Columbia Steel frees you from the headaches of coordinating different contractors and shuttling projects from shop to shop. Columbia Steel combines a complete range of facilities and experience into a "one place" location in Portland, Oregon USA. Our 86-acre complex offers many benefits which bear critically on cost and delivery. (read more)

Overton Gear provides unrivaled capacity and capability for heating gears up to 90" in diameter. Our newest additions include two state-of-the-art carburizing systems that employ the latest U.S. and European technologies, along with an 84-inch quench press – possibly the largest in the world. (read more)

An induction heat treating machine which provided its customer with the ability to heat-treat specific areas of a continuous piece of material - such as crankshafts or camshafts. It contained a servo controlled indexing slide with CNC based controls to make it capable of handling a "family of parts" (read more)

With every magnetic shield MuShield manufactures, the Company's goal is to attain the maximum shielding capacity or permeability for that part while maintaining its dimensional and structural integrity. MuShield meets these objectives by heat treating parts and material on-site. (read more)

Relieve all strains and restore the material to a soft condition suitable for further drawing, spinning or forming operations. (read more)

The furnaces utilize radiant heat in a controlled nitrogen atmosphere (to minimize scale), oil quenching with custom machined guide rolls to eliminate twist and cast as well as custom tension devices to improve straightness. In line glass bead blasting can also be incorporated to remove all scale. A rust inhibiting oil coating could be added. (read more)