Aerospace Heat Treating Solutions

Aerospace part heat treating specifications can be tough to meet. CEC can make it easy.

What We Build for Aerospace

Drop-Bottom and Vertical Drop Bottom – fastest quench for thin skins, spars, and large tanks; engineered for repeatable immersion times
Roller-Hearth T6/T7 Lines – high throughput castings/forgings with air, water, or oil quench
Atmosphere Retort (Brazing) – clean joints and tight temperature control for engine, APU, and ducting assemblies
Titanium Heat Treat – creep-strength control and microstructure stability
Batch/Continuous Age Ovens – uniformity-first design for large and mixed loads
Tundish Preheat – integrated to the line

Uniformity by design – We use CFD to simulate airflow, nozzle angles, recirculation paths/flows, and your worst-case load geometry, so hot/cold spots are engineered out before the first TUS.
Testing & standards — Designed to meet or exceed AMS2750 and AMS2770, with NADCAP/CQI-9–ready data: batch reports, e-signatures, secure retention.
Built with you — Joint design reviews with your engineering, production, and maintenance teams to ensure intuitive operation, PM access, and documentation that hit spec and accelerate qualification.
Lifecycle support — aftermarket parts, service, and upgrades—even on non-CEC furnaces

Wing & fuselage: skins, spars, bulkheads (solution + quench + age)
Rocket engine components — injectors, jackets, nozzles (brazing/age; retort atmosphere control)
Landing gear & seat castings: T6/T7 with progressive or immersion quench
Turbine section: brazed subassemblies, retort cycles
Tubes, bars, extrusions: horizontal lines with right-angle transfer and progressive quench; vertical solutions for low-distortion T6 on 6xxx alloys
Extrusions & long products — 2xxx/6xxx/7xxx profiles for airframe (solution + quench, age; progressive quench)
Machined plate & forgings — frames, ribs, brackets (solution + quench, age; distortion control)
Fasteners & hardware — pins, bolts, inserts (age hardening / PH stainless cycles)
Engine hot-section — blades, vanes, rings (age hardening; vacuum/retort brazing of honeycomb and seals)
APU & ECS ducting — thin-wall assemblies (brazing/anneal; tight uniformity)

SAT/TUS planners, automatic scheduling, and pass/fail logging (AMS2750)
Secure historian with role-based access and electronic signatures
Recipe management with interlocks for spec compliance
Optional MES/ERP handoff for lot genealogy
CMMC 2.0 Level 2–ready — Controls and historian support CUI protection with role-based access, MFA, encryption in transit/at rest, immutable audit logs, and SIEM export.