Eleven Reasons to Choose Expanite Surface Hardening

Every year, tons of stainless-steel travel across the globe for surface hardening, only to be shipped back for final assembly. This unnecessary traffic is driving up costs, complicating logistics, and contributing to CO2 emissions. Only Expanite offers you a choice of local or Inhouse surface hardening treatment. You have two options: Ship your parts to a nearby Expanite Treatment Centre (ETC), or treat your components on-site, directly at your facility or a partner’s location with the Expanite License Solution (ELS), Expanite is able to offer the in-house, on-site, surface hardening solution thanks to our secured digital quality and production platform. All our sites are certified according to the ISO9001 and ISO14001 standards, guaranteeing consistent high-quality treatment.

Embedded in our DNA is the willingness to help. The Expanite technical team knows a lot about alloys, and we see ourselves as genuine partners, where transparency is one of our values . The perception that more expensive materials offer better performance is not always the case. When you combine the choice of material with our flexible treatment solutions there is always an Expanite solution.

Traditional heat treatment and surface hardening are based on age old technologies involving a number of hazardous chemicals and cumbersome processes. Not with Expanite. Expanite was born digital based on our own central process and quality production planning platform. Our platform is named Fenris – inspired by the old Nordic mythology. Think of the platform not only as the central storage and execution center for all treatment “recipes” but also as a control center, that manages all processes in the furnaces, the production flow, and our Q&C in the labs. Whether you have your own treatment center (ELS) or you are using the Expanite Treatment Centers (ETC) the benefits of our centralized treatment platform are the same: Improved wear, galling and corrosion resistance Only Expanite offers you digital based heat treatment and surface hardening solutions.

Every time you extend the life of your stainless-steel part, you delay the need for new parts. As the first company in the surface hardening and heat treatment industry, Expanite has completed a independently verified Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) that documents the environmental footprint of our hardening technologies.
The climate impact of Expanite’s processes on stainless steel surface hardening leads to only 0,23-0,46 kg CO2 eq per kg of treated material. When compared to the 10.5 kg CO2 eq/kg emissions of untreated stainless steel the Expanite process adds only 2-14% of greenhouse gas emissions. The LCA documents that the Expanite processes are free from fluoride, hydrochloric acid, or cyanides. The processes generate no toxic waste and do not use solvents. All Expanite sites are fully compliant with local and national environmental standards.