Heat Treating

The Sousa Corp is a full service heat treater offering a wide range of thermal processes on many ferrous and non-ferrous alloys to improve their properties and life.

Key Benefits

Improved Properties- hardness, strength, ductility or formability
Quality- ISO 9001:AS 9100
Service - Personal contact and fast turn-around
Professional- Metallurgy and decades of experience

Capabilities

Materials that we commonly process include but are not limited to:

• Carbon & Low Carbon Steel
• Alloy Steel
• Martensitic Stainless Steels
• Austenitic Stainless Steel
• PH Stainless Steels
• Maraging Steel
• Tool Steels
• Ductile Iron
• Cast Iron

• Nickel Alloys
• Cobalt Alloys
• Titanium
• Aluminum
• Copper
• Bronze
• Brass

Thermal processes that we offer include, but are not limited to:

• Aluminum Heat Treating (Stress Relieve & Age)
• Bright Annealing and Hardening
• Carbon Restoration
• Carburizing & Carbonitriding
• Deep freeze (to -120F) & Stabilization
• Stress Relieving
• Vacuum Hardening & High Pressure Quenching
• Vacuum Tempering & Annealing

• High Speed Steel & Exotic Alloy Hardening & Annealing
• Neutral Hardening
• Non-Ferrous Heat Treating
• Normalizing
• Precipitation & Age Hardening
• Solution Heat Treating
• Selective Hardening