Our steels for hardening and tempering combine easy processing with a long service life of the finished heat-treated part. This is why they are often used for the links in industrial chains of all kinds, which, for example, must be particularly wear-resistant as drive or gear chains.
Centrifugal clutches make it possible to start a drive motor, for example of a chainsaw, without any load. Centrifugal clutch housings need to exhibit nearly isotropic properties. For this purpose, Waelzholz’s steel for hardening and tempering offers highly uniform properties and geometric sizes across many delivery batches.
High-performance nose sprockets are extremely wear-resistant and feature a high-precision chain guide. Whether in bicycles or industrial drives, our steel for hardening and tempering can be precisely formed into the required shape. Thanks to its high carbon content, it is robust and durable after piece hardening.
Roller springs and mainsprings are used in a wide range of industrial applications, for example as cable winders. For this purpose, SORBITEX® textured strip offers extremely high longitudinal tensile strength, which results in very durable, direction-dependent spring tension.
Many industrial products are equipped with high-speed electric motors, such as electric vacuum cleaners, food processors, and garden tools. Our thin, high-strength NO grades offer low weight and high performance thanks to low eddy current losses.
Our steel materials are used in wide variety of industrial applications, from starter springs to needle bearings to chain link plates to saw blades – and the list goes on and on. Durability plays an important role in all of them – and in many products, like household appliances and garden tools, comfort does as well. Materials designed specifically for each application offer outstanding reliability when it comes to the final product’s desired properties. Relevant factors can include, for example, high speeds of up to 20,000 rpm for powerful food processors, or uniform, directional spring force for retraction systems like those used for vacuum cleaner cables. We satisfy these and other requirements of the necessary material by carefully monitoring production processes and strictly maintaining properties over large delivery quantities and batches.
