Titanium Heat Treating
Quality Processing for Titanium
For applications requiring high strength, lightweight performance, and resistance to extreme temperatures, titanium alloys are unmatched. With their exceptional corrosion resistance and biocompatibility, titanium alloys are widely used in aerospace, medical, and firearms industries.
At Paulo, we specialize in precision heat treatment solutions for titanium alloys, ensuring optimal strength, durability, and mechanical performance through advanced processes.
Enhancing Strength, Durability, and Performance
Titanium’s unique properties make it a top choice for critical components required to perform in extreme environments. Unlike conventional steels, titanium retains its mechanical integrity at elevated temperatures and under high stress.
We optimize titanium’s performance through precision-controlled heat treatment, ensuring that aerospace components achieve the highest mechanical reliability, medical implants maintain superior fatigue strength, and high-performance firearms parts resist wear and deformation. By applying advanced thermal processing techniques, we enhance titanium’s structural stability, extending its operational life and maximizing its resistance to extreme conditions.
Titanium Components We Process
- Frames
- Bulkheads
- Fasteners
- Blades
- Vanes
- Compressor discs
- Bone plates
- Barrels
- Heat exchangers
- Propeller shafts
- Firearm suppressors
Titanium Alloys We Process
Ti-6Al-4V (Grade 5)
The most widely used titanium alloy offers an ideal balance of strength, corrosion resistance, and weight savings. Heat-treated using solution treating and aging/precipitation hardening in a vacuum furnace to optimize its mechanical properties.
Hardness Range: 30-40 HRC
Common Applications: Aerospace structures, medical implants, firearms components.
Ti-6Al-2Sn-4Zr-2Mo
Designed for high-temperature performance, this alloy is used in jet engines and high-performance aerospace applications. Heat-treated using solution treating and aging/precipitation hardening in a vacuum furnace to optimize its mechanical properties.
Hardness Range: 32-42 HRC
Common Applications: Jet engine parts, gas turbines.
Ti-3Al-2.5V
Offers excellent corrosion resistance and formability for aircraft hydraulic systems, marine, and firearm applications.
Hardness Range: 25-35 HRC
Common Applications: Aircraft tubing, heat exchangers, marine hardware.
Ti-5Al-2.5Sn
A high-strength alloy used for high-temperature aerospace and industrial applications.
Hardness Range: 28-38 HRC
Common Applications: Aerospace components, heat exchangers.
Titanium Heat Treating Processes
Hot Isostatic Pressing
HIP is opening a new world of possibilities for aerospace & defense OEMs, making new, lighter, and more sustainable materials and methods of manufacturing such as additive manufacturing viable for aircraft and space exploration for the first time. Additive manufacturing in particular has opened a new world of possibilities since it can achieve more complex part geometries than traditional machining. We offer hot isostatic pressing (HIP) in our Cleveland division with our Quintus QIH-122 furnace.
Additive manufacturing allows suppliers to achieve more complex part geometries than traditional machining. This enables features and part geometries that previously would have been impossible. Hot Isostatic Pressing densifies these parts, improving performance.
We offer hot isostatic pressing (HIP) in our Cleveland division with our Quintus QIH-122 furnace.
Solution Treating
We can create treatments that feature very slow ramp rates (down to around 1 degree per minute) and precision controlled cooling. This ensures that parts reach the required treatment temperature slowly and evenly, which promotes proper solutionizing.
Annealing
Annealing is often applied to aerospace and defense components as part of the manufacturing process to enhance the machinability of different materials.
Depending on your material, we can provide full annealing, intercritical annealing, and sub-critical annealing.
Precipitation Hardening
While the annealing process is meant to dissolve a material’s constituent phases into a solution for ease of machinability, precipitation creates new phases in a material that help to increase strength.
Through Hardening
Through hardening is ideal for strength applications where parts need to sustain heavy loads during service life such as fasteners, nuts, bolts, brackets, and more.
Vacuum Brazing
Vacuum brazing is a specialized metal joining process that is well suited for aerospace components where tight tolerances are required. Brazing in a vacuum atmosphere yields bright, clean parts and high-integrity joints for hot section engine components.
Hot Isostatic Pressing
HIP is opening a new world of possibilities for aerospace & defense OEMs, making new, lighter, and more sustainable materials and methods of manufacturing such as additive manufacturing viable for aircraft and space exploration for the first time. Additive manufacturing in particular has opened a new world of possibilities since it can achieve more complex part geometries than traditional machining. We offer hot isostatic pressing (HIP) in our Cleveland division with our Quintus QIH-122 furnace.
Additive manufacturing allows suppliers to achieve more complex part geometries than traditional machining. This enables features and part geometries that previously would have been impossible. Hot Isostatic Pressing densifies these parts, improving performance.
We offer hot isostatic pressing (HIP) in our Cleveland division with our Quintus QIH-122 furnace.
Solution Treating
We can create treatments that feature very slow ramp rates (down to around 1 degree per minute) and precision controlled cooling. This ensures that parts reach the required treatment temperature slowly and evenly, which promotes proper solutionizing.
Annealing
Annealing is often applied to aerospace and defense components as part of the manufacturing process to enhance the machinability of different materials.
Depending on your material, we can provide full annealing, intercritical annealing, and sub-critical annealing.
Precipitation Hardening
While the annealing process is meant to dissolve a material’s constituent phases into a solution for ease of machinability, precipitation creates new phases in a material that help to increase strength.
Through Hardening
Through hardening is ideal for strength applications where parts need to sustain heavy loads during service life such as fasteners, nuts, bolts, brackets, and more.
Vacuum Brazing
Vacuum brazing is a specialized metal joining process that is well suited for aerospace components where tight tolerances are required. Brazing in a vacuum atmosphere yields bright, clean parts and high-integrity joints for hot section engine components.
Metallurgical Expertise for Titanium Alloys
Our team of in-house metallurgists and heat treatment specialists works closely with manufacturers to develop custom thermal processes that optimize titanium’s performance for its intended application. Through our proprietary datagineering approach, we use advanced sensors and data-driven process controls to ensure repeatability, precision, and quality.
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