Furnace atmospheres for the Chinese automative industry

摘要

The Chinese automotive industry takes advantage of a huge range of heat treatment porcesses to engineer its products to meet the demands of the user at minimum cost.Most of the thousands of steel compoinents that go to make up a modern vehicle are heat treated aat one or more stages of their manufacture.The majority of htose heat treatments arecarried out in a controlled atmosphere either to protect the component or to change its surface chemistry.