The ARI-Industrial Products Group can provide Heat Treating services through ARI-Jackson Manufacturing and Southwest Steel Casting Company.

The ARI-Industrial Products Group can provide heat treating services through its component companies, ARI-Jackson Manufacturing and Southwest Steel Casting Company.

Fundamentally, all heat treatments are intended to either harden or soften the metal. They involve one, or a series of operations, in which solid metal is heated and cooled under specific conditions to develop a required structure and properties.

ARI-Jackson Manufacturing specializes in 'Neutralizing', a method where the carbon content is unchanged. ARI-Jackson's heat treating furnaces are capable of handling up to 9,000 pounds of steel through the various compartments which is 3-3,000 pound loads. ARI-Jackson is equipped with two state of the art Pacemaker integral quench furnaces and four Lindberg companion draw furnaces can be used for tempering after quenching or for preheating, stress relieving, annealing or drawing.

Other typical applications for these furnaces are well suited for include:

	►	Annealing
	►	Normalizing
	►	Hardening
	►	Carburizing
	►	Carbonitriding

Southwest Steel Casting Company has installed a modern heat-treating facility consisting of the following major components; three (3) 7' x 12' Car Bottom Furnaces equipped with automatic recording pyrometers, a high temperature gas fired Box Furnace (stainless), a 6,800 gallon capacity quench tank which includes a 2,200 gpm water circulation pump and 16,000 gallon capacity water reservoir and a dedicated Brinell testing line.

The heat-treating facilities at Southwest Steel allow for the following types of heat treatments to be performed:

	►	Water Quenching
	►	Tempering
	►	Normalizing
	►	Annealing
	►	Stress Relieving

In addition, Southwest Steel Casting Company provides the following services upon request: