Heat Treatment

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Need to toughen steel, cure extruded rubber, or boost thermal storage in solar components? Let’s explore how our heat transfer and heat treat salts can help! From annealing and martempering to isothermal quenching, we’ve got the products you need. With over 175 years of industry experience, we’ve seen it all and are here to help you find the most cost-effective and efficient answers to your challenges.

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Which heat treat salts would work best for you?

Neutral Salts

Designed to provide excellent fluidity and great stability, Hubbard-Hall’s neutral heat treatment salts are formulated with a balanced mixture of chlorides. The Neutral Salts highlighted in this section include only 1 non-barium product (neutral salt B). Selection of neutral salts is generally based on operating range.

Quenching and Tempering Salts

This line of heat treatment salts is composed of nitrate-nitrite salts for use as steel tempering or quenching media. All are completely water soluble, easily washed and have similar high-transfer rates and heat capacity.

Descaling Salts

Molten descaling salts can be used to remove oxide scales from both ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Molten Descaling Salts have the ability to produce clean, scale-free surfaces without base metal loss, pitting or etching.

Solution Heat Treating/Annealing of Aluminum

Molten heat treatment salts provide a high degree of temperature uniformity required for the satisfactory heat treatment of aluminum alloys. Hubbard-Hall’s aluminum heat treatment salts are free-flowing and high purity products.

Rubber Curing Salts

Rubber curing heat treatment salts are high purity, eutectic mixture of nitrate and nitrite salts. They are formulated specifically for curing extruded rubber profiles at the lowest possible temperature ranges. All chemicals used in these rubber curing salts are water-soluble and do not form any insolubles. Therefore, the solidified salt is easily removed from the surface in a hot water spray rinsing station at the end of the trough just after emerging from the salt trough.

Heat Treatment Products

Product Type of Heat Treating Melting Point Working Range
Quick Temper 275 Quenching & Tempering 275ºF 300º – 1000º F
Quick Temper 300 Quenching & Tempering 310ºF 380º – 1100º F
Quick Temper 430 Quenching & Tempering 430ºF 500º – 1100º F
Quick Temper 275 Austempering, Martempering & Isothermal Quenching 275ºF 300º – 1000º F
Quick Temper 430 Austempering, Martempering & Isothermal Quenching 430ºF 500º – 1100º F
Quick Cure 420 Solution Heat Treating & Annealing of Aluminum 420ºF 500º – 1100º F
Neutral Salt A Neutral Salt Hardening 1000ºF 1100º – 1750º F
Neutral Salt B Neutral Salt Hardening 1200ºF 1300º – 1700º F
Neutral Salt BS Neutral Salt Hardening, Self-Rectifying 1200ºF 1300º – 1700º F
Neutral Salt C Neutral Salt Hardening 1050ºF 925º – 1600º F
Neutral Salt H Neutral Salt Hardening 1200ºF 1300º – 1900º F
Neutral Salt HH Neutral Salt Hardening 1600ºF 1700º – 2400º F
Neutral Salt HHS Neutral Salt Hardening 1750ºF 1900º – 2400º F
Quick Cure 275 Rubber Curing, Heat Transfer 275ºF 300º – 1000º F
Quick Cure 300 Rubber Curing, Heat Transfer 310ºF 380º – 1100º F
Quick Cure 360 Rubber Curing, Heat Transfer 360ºF 380º – 1100º F
Quick Cure 420 Rubber Curing, Heat Transfer 420ºF 500º – 1100º F

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