Heat Treating doesn't get much more "high end" than this-heat treating of components for Formula1 Race Cars.

Commercial heat treater "Haerterei Technik" in Ludenscheid, Germany operates a top-notch shop catering to a variety of industries, one of which just happens to be heat treating of components for Formula 1 race cars. 

A division of Swiss Steel Group the firm has two locations, this one and a second one just down the road in Stuttgart which between them have a total of 70 employees. The facility we visited has a total of 13 vacuum furnaces, all with 10 bar quenching, two plasma nitriding systems, a number of units for case hardening along with systems for vacuum nitriding along with some water quenching units.

It is quite a sight to walk into this facility and see a total of 13 quite new vacuum furnaces all in a line, we would be overstating it to say "breathtaking" but we can truthfully say it is a sight which any vacuum heat treater will appreciate. 

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