Engineering steels - Heat treatable and nitriding steels

Quenched and tempered steels offer high yield strengths with good toughness and are used for structural parts in mechanical engineering and toolmaking. Nitriding steels are heat-treatable steels with higher contents of Chromium, Molybdenum, Vanadium and also Aluminium and are particularly suitable for low-distortion surface hardening using nitriding processes. This significantly increases wear resistance and fatigue strength.