Service Heat Treating

In 1974, Richard Armitage saw an opportunity for a quality and service focused commercial heat treater in southeastern Wisconsin and that’s how the story of Service Heat Treating began. They started small with two batch furnaces and have grown over the years to have 18 furnaces total. The company began servicing agricultural and construction equipment suppliers and have diversified over the years to include automotive, consumer products, mining equipment, and other available markets. Included in their staff of 35 employees, Service Heat Treating has top metallurgical and QA experts to support engineering and process design and help solve metallurgical problems.

The company provides nitriding and nitrocarburizing processes in seven state-of-the-art Nitrex nitride furnaces, which are 1 meter diameter by 2 meters deep and have a 4400lb capacity. Austenitic nitrocarburizing for specialized applications is also available. Their six 36” x 72”, 5000lb capacity batch furnaces are capable of austenitic nitrocarburizing, neutral hardening, carbonitriding, carburizing, and a wide variety of specialized annealing processes. Their 36” x 48”, 4000lb capacity vacuum furnaces have 15-bar quench capabilities with services including hardening and annealing stainless steel and high-volume tool steels, and specialty annealing processes.

With their wide variety of processes, this commercial heat treater can engineer specialized processes to meet demanding strength, wear, and corrosion requirements. Their quality system is certified to ISO 9001 by BSI under certificate number FM522321 which ensures consistency and high quality. Inspection procedures exceed the MTI-2000 industry standard and can be tailored to your unique requirements.

Though some of the most interesting projects can’t be discussed due to trade secrets, industrial clients throughout the area know Service as a top metallurgical solutions provider with a record of achievement in case hardening medium and large production runs. That reputation doesn’t come without hard work. Every load is scrutinized: the vacuum department delivers standard stainless steel and tool steel processing quickly and cost effectively; the company develops boutique annealing cycles for making difficult bends; and they other vacuum carburizing capabilities for the most distortion critical applications.

Service Heat Treating is a company based on the principles of the founder: principles like service, as their name suggests, but also a focus on quality and reinvesting in the company to persistently improve services. As a greener future in the heat treat industry edges nearer, the company will continue to pursue cleaner, environmentally friendly technologies and improved process control while looking to new technologies to continually improve growth.