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Reardon Metals offers full-spectrum consulting services for technical engineering projects from research and development to design, process engineering, testing and fabrication, production scale-up, and failure analysis. Reardon Metals has recently invented an entire new family of super high speed steel alloys, and US patent 12,234,536 B2 entitled High Speed Steel Composition was granted on February 25th, 2025 as a result. You can read more about them on our Steel Alloy Products page. In addition to inventing new steel alloys, Reardon Metals provides heat treat consulting, materials and process engineering, mechanical engineering, root cause analysis, metallurgical services and training to industrial corporations worldwide. Nitriding and case carburizing in both controlled atmosphere furnaces and vacuum furnaces is a specialty, as is failure analysis and microstructural analysis of industrial, medical and aerospace components and automotive gearing. Our expertise in industrial heat treating operations and processes includes press quenching of automotive and aerospace gearing and industrial bearing races as well as tempering, annealing and normalizing processes.

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Experimental octagon ingots of 304L stainless steel in transit to the hot rolling mill.
Experimental octagon ingots of 304L stainless steel in transit to the hot rolling mill.
Transverse grain structure of a 304L stainless steel 3.25" RCS billet at the mid-radius location. The ASTM grain size is 6.5.
Transverse grain structure of a 304L stainless steel 3.25″ RCS billet at the mid-radius location. This stainless steel billet was produced from the experimental octagon ingot shown above. The ASTM E112 grain size for this sample rated 6.5. Objective setting 10X.
Austentitized industrial bearing race positioned on the lower die assembly of a press quenching machine before oil quenching.
Austenitized industrial bearing race positioned on the lower die assembly of a press quenching machine just prior to oil quenching. Note the individual slotted rings which can be independently adjusted to meter the flow of oil over the bearing race during quenching.
Longitudinal microscopic image of the carbide distribution observed in a high speed steel bar.
Microscopic image of the primary carbide distribution observed in a high speed steel bar. The severity of carbide segregation can be quantitatively characterized by rating for hook, network, and streak.
Stereo microscope image of the fracture surface of a stainless steel component.
Stereo microscope image of the fracture surface of a failed stainless steel component. Note the crack origin.