Friday, July 11, 2025

KHT Rack Salt-to-Salt and Vacuum Processing Deliver Superior Results for Gun Barrels and Slides

At KHT, we understand how critical performance is when it comes to gun barrels, slides and other components. That’s why we continue to invest in our K-SALT Division, the largest rack salt to salt facility in the Midwest, enabling us to process tolerance critical materials by better controlling the cooling rate of crack sensitive steels and other alloys. Combined with our custom design fixtures, we’re able to quickly and efficiently maintain your tight tolerances while achieving optimized heat treating cycle time, saving time and money.

“We know the importance of getting heat treatment right, especially when it comes to component critical salt processing,” said Steve Kowalski, President of Kowalski Heat Treating. “My team continually amazes me with their attention to detail while helping to solve customer PIA (Pain in the @%$) Jobs!”

More often than not, austempering is the ideal distortion management solution for specialty jobs such as shafts, pins, barrels, slides and other gun components, as well as saw blades, pistons, flat plates, brake discs, clutch parts, large stampings and other sensitive work requiring high hardness, longer-lasting toughness and increased strength.”

Kowalski Heat Treating, celebrating our 50th year of thermal processing solutions for our customers, is committed to solving your PIA (pain in the @%$) Jobs! Our combination of precision and thermal processing consistency ensures every job is treated to your exact specifications. Stop losing sleep over those parts that are underperforming and keeping you up at night. Let us minimize waste and defects – our engineers and tech staff are ready to tackle your toughest jobs – no matter how complex your job is. Shoot us an email at Pandrews@khtheat.com or call Peggy at 216-631-4411 and let us know how we can help.

Headquartered in northeast Ohio, Kowalski Heat Treating is a specialty thermal processing and finished parts supplier, providing expert solutions to hard to perfect jobs. Celebrating 50 years in business, we’ve built a strong reputation by focusing on the toughest “PIA” (pain in the @%$) Jobs! – whatever the job – KHT can apply our range of treatment solutions - from vacuum hardening to rack salt to salt austempering / marquenching, to deep cryogenics and close tolerance specialty flatwork – we figure out the best solution for your parts and your business success.

CONTACT:

Mr. Steve Kowalski

President

Kowalski Heat Treating

skowalski@khtheat.com

1-888-KHT-HEAT