UK-based heat treatment provider, Bodycote, announced it has entered into a long-term outsourcing agreement with Doncasters Group, a castings and precision parts maker for aerospace as well as other industries, to provide its hot isostatic pressing and heat treatment requirements. The terms of the agreement grant the global provider of subcontract thermal processing services acquisition of Doncasters’ thermal processing assets, including hot isostatic presses and vacuum furnaces, located at its Blaenavon, South Wales, site.
Hot isostatic pressing is a form of heat treatment that uses high pressure to improve material properties.
Doncasters Group manufactures precision metal components and assemblies for the aerospace, industrial gas turbine, specialist automotive, petrochemical, construction, industrial, transportation, and recreation markets. Associated Doncasters employees will be transferred to Bodycote. Financial terms of the agreement were not made available.
