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06.10.25

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Case Study: Streamlining Firearm Heat Treating with Smarter Order Management

When Growth Creates Complexity: A Firearm Manufacturer’s Challenge As one of the largest firearms manufacturers in the U.S., this company relies on precise thermal processing to bring its metal injection molded (MIM)...

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Case Study: Streamlining Firearm Heat Treating with Smarter Order Management

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Causes of Cracking During Heat Treatment for Tooling and Beyond

Thermal Processing for Automotive Seating Components: The Essential Guide

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Automotive Recall Recovery: Leveraging a Strategic Heat Treat Partnership to Bounce Back

How Switching Heat Treaters Revealed a Recipe Challenge—And How Paulo Solved It

How to Read and Compare Heat Treat Quotes

Bringing Boeing-Approved Heat Treating to New Heights

Strategies for Preventing Part Distortion in Heat Treatment

How Much Distortion to Expect in Heat Treating

The Comprehensive Guide to Aerospace Thermal Processing

10B21 and 15B24 Boron Steels Properties

Heat treating: Best Handled In-House or Outsourced?

Quenching Process and Charpy Performance: The Key to Stronger Die Cast Tooling

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Causes of Cracking During Heat Treatment for Tooling and Beyond

Caustic vs. Oil Quenching

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Austempering for EV and Beyond

Water-Based Quenching: Capability Spotlight

AS13100 in the Making: Partnering with Manufacturers to Create a Stronger Supply Chain

Stainless Steel Heat Treatment: Capability Spotlight

Thermal Processing for Automotive Seating Components: The Essential Guide

Limiting Risk in Procurement and Heat Treatment of 400-Series Stainless Steel

Transforming Automotive: The New EV Supply Chain, Automotive Chip Shortage & Reshoring Trends

The rise of EV, a fork in the road for OEMs and suppliers

Aerospace vs. Automotive Heat Treating—What’s the Difference?

Space and Additive Manufacturing: The Essential Thermal Processing Guide

Finding Your Spec for Part Hardness

High-Pressure Gas vs. Oil Quenching

Hardenability of Steels

Deep Case Carburizing for Helical Gears: Capability Spotlight

Annealing vs. Stress Relieving Heat Treatment: What’s the Difference?

Effective vs. Total Case Depth

Four Thermal Processing Problems and How to Avoid Them

Zinc Phosphating Steel Automotive Components: Capability Spotlight

The Role of Quenching in Heat Treating

Zinc Plating for Steel: Capability Spotlight

Rockwell, Brinell, and Microhardness Testing for Metals

Thermal Processing for Firearms: The Essential Guide

It’s a Hot Rush: Heat Treating Turnaround Times and Supply Chain Disruption

Capability Spotlight: Heat Treating Additive Manufactured Parts

Can Decarburization Cause Quench Cracking?

Risk Management in Heat Treatment

How to Heat Treat Steel

How Does Carbon Content Affect Steel?

High-Pressure Heat Treatment, Hot Isostatic Pressing, and Additive Manufacturing

Is Decarburization Bad?

What In the World is HIP?

Which Materials Respond to Heat Treatment?

How Cooling Affects Carbide in Steel

Datagineering 2020: Year In Review

Heat Treating and the Bullwhip Effect

What Causes Quench Cracking?

Why Is Stainless Steel Called Stainless?

Capability Spotlight: Screenprint Brazing

How Can Steel Be Used to Cut Steel?

Reshoring Your Heat Treating Operations: An Overview

Datagineering at Work: The Paulo Advantage

Can you ‘HIP’ it? Investigating hot isostatic pressing

Extensive testing reveals impressive hot isostatic press (HIP) capabilities

Disaster-proof your production by planning for emergency & overflow heat treating

Case study: The choreography of contingency planning

Case study: Unconventional treatment improves quality of constant tension bands

Enhanced property treatments: Ordinary alloys punch above their weight

Investments in equipment, services and certifications strengthen Paulo’s aerospace ties

Precise heat treatment is vital for aerospace alloys

First article inspections and AS9102 compliance: How heat treaters fit in

Powder bed fusion, HIP and the heat treatment of the superalloy Inconel 718

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Low-Pressure Carburization for High Hardness & Low Distortion

What to Expect From Nadcap-Approved Heat Treaters

Understanding effective vs. total case depth

Understanding customer-specific requirements in the IATF 16949 standard

S7, D2, A2: Difference in tool steel properties