Mission-critical applications such as aerospace and chemical processing require stringent quality standards to develop and manufacture high-performance, high-temperature and corrosion-resistant alloys that exceed stringent specifications.

Our high performance products require longer, more complex multi-stage manufacturing processes than commercial grade alloys or carbon steel. Alloying elements in high performance alloys must be highly refined during the melting process and the manufacturing process must be strictly controlled to produce accurate chemical properties. The resulting alloy material is more difficult to machine because it is more resistant to deformation by design.

High performance alloys require greater force to be applied during hot or cold working and are not easily reduced or thinned during rolling or forging. This results in more rolling, annealing and pickling cycles to achieve the proper size compared to lower performance alloys. Some alloys may undergo 40 or more different stages of melting, remelting, annealing, thermal reduction, cold reduction, pickling and testing before reaching the desired specifications.