
Beta Heat Treatment Limited
offer a contract heat treatment service to ISO
9001 standard. Components up to 1700mm long, 750mm dia and 2000 kgs in
weight are treated up to a maximum temperature of 1100 0C. We
have provided a fast, reliable, quality service to the engineering industry
since the start of production in March 1989. Beta, the first successful
company to use fluidised bed furnaces, is now Europe's largest
Fluidised Bed sub contractor and was one of the first Heat Treaters to
achieve BS ISO 9001 standard in 2003. The flexibility of the equipment and
its accurate temperature control enables Beta to offer the full range of
processes with optimum quality. It is probably the cheapest form of tool
steel heat treatment due to the longevity and quality of equipment and low
energy cost per kilogram. Below are our state of the art laboratory
facilities and an example of a uniform compact nitride layer produced by
Supa-Fast Nitriding. Note the absence of a “White Layer” which has been
removed by a diffusion process at customer request.

·Nitriding
& Nitrocarburising
·Stress
relieving
·Annealing
·Solution
annealing
·age
hardening
·Precipitation
hardening
·Tempering
·Bright
annealing
Beta introduced two new furnaces during 2001. A larger CTP 75120 fluidised bed furnace, capable of nitriding or neutral hardening items in excess of 700mm diameter and 1.5 metres long. These also supplement existing equipment where it is dedicated to specific customer products for example Aerospace and Formula One applications
Nitriding and
Nitrocarburising
are widely used processes which Beta has adapted utilising the advantages of
fluidised bed
technology manufactured within our own group at Clayton Thermal Processes.
We provide a high quality, reliable processes with the advantage of a large
reduction in turnround time. Some users still specify process time, ie. 48
or 90 hour treatment. At Beta we ask you to tell us what you want to
achieve, tell us the case depth and we will produce what you require in the
shortest practical time. Here you can see drawings of equipment installed at
Beta
The benefits of fluidised bed
nitriding/nitrocarburising are:
Uniformity of
temperature
Minimum
distortion
Ability to treat
packed loads
Ensures
Uniform treatment
within a load
Consistent
results from load to load.