Quenching Oils

Quenching Oils are heat treatment oils blended from solvent refined base oil with specially selected additives that facilitate fast quenching through proper and controlled cooling, and have outstanding chemical and oxidation stability. Quenching Oils also have excellent thermal properties, low volatility, high flash, and fire points.

Quenching Oils serve two primary functions. Quenching oils facilitate the hardening of steel by controlling heat transfer during quenching, and they enhance the wetting of steel during quenching to minimize the formation of undesirable thermal and transformational gradients which may lead to increased distortion and cracking.

For more than 60 years, Hardcastle Petrofer has offered a complete range dedicated to the field of heat treatment or quenching oils. These quenching oils and polymer quenchants have been developed to ensure better control of cooling cycles:

• Quenching speed adapted to your heat treatment cycles
• Stability in service
• Reduction in consumption by drag out
• Resistance to oxidation and micro-organisms
• Ease to clean

Modern heat-treatment processes are constantly making new demands on quenching oils. Hardcastle Petrofer’s extensive development program ensures that our product range is more than capable of meeting new industry advances. We are constantly screening new materials for their suitability for our formulations and our existing product range is continually reviewed to ensure that the best available technology is used.

Rich experience in understanding the application needs of Indian heat treaters has resulted in HIQUENCH series of quenchants to be the automatic choice of our Indian customers.

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