Aluminum Services

Aluminum Solution / Quench / Age
Our Columbia City Division's aluminum processing capability includes gas-fired continuous and drop bottom batch furnaces, affording flexibility to process a wide variety of aluminum alloys.

Solution Only
In the event the customer needs to "work" the piece in a post-heat treating operation, Alfe can perform only the solution portion of the heat treat process, allowing the part to be shaped, formed, straightened.

Core burn-out
We offer core bake-out services for those cases in which your castings have particularly aggressive sand cores which cannot be removed through standard knockout techniques.

Age Only
Age-only requirements are serviced in our batch-style age ovens.

Ferrous Services
Our Columbia City Division utilizes a gas-fired air atmosphere car bottom batch furnace for the heat treatment of ferrous components. Its large 467 cubic foot capacity and full programmability affords us the opportunity to anneal, stress relieve and normalizing a wide variety of ferrous castings and forgings.

Secondary Services

Shot Blasting
In order to ensure that parts are clean and scale free after heat treatment, we have in-house capability for shot blasting both aluminum and ferrous parts.

Hardness Testing
A predetermined quantity of the customer's product is tested out of each heat treat batch. Brinell and Rockwell hardness testing is available.

Complete Certification Documentation
Alfe certifies every batch of product processed, recording heat treat process parameters as well as hardness readings, if applicable. Various standard format certifications are available to our customers on request.

Transportation
Columbia City utilizes a tractor-trailers to transport between our facility and our customers' plants. In addition to transporting product within our effective selling region, we also facilitate drop forward shipping to non-customer locations.