The "Consultative Sale" - an Integral Part of AST's Value-Added

AST is a full service heat treating and metallurgical process provider. (See, Capabilities list of services and the Overview & Definitions of Services Offered links.) We also provide flattening, straightening, inspection and other related services. AST works daily with Cleveland Black Oxide to provide black oxide services to our customers after the heat treating is done.

For most of AST’s 1,200 customers, heat treating is not their main business. Heat treating is not a natural part of most manufacturer’s "corporate culture." On the other hand, heat treating of metals is AST’s specialty ... since Prosper Paolucci Powell founded AST in his garage in 1943, it is all we do. Akron Steel Treating employs many experienced heat treaters, who deal with hundreds of different kinds of metal alloys, whether wrought, forged or cast. (See, "Certified Heat Treater" Program link.) We see literally millions of different parts, for thousands of different applications each year! Not only can we provide the right heat treatment and related processes, we can help your engineering team with material selection, part design and the myriad of other manufacturing issues that are directly affected by the heat treating processes. That breadth of our collective experience is our "Consultative Sale." AST offers consultation before, during and after the sale; it is one of AST’s unique, value-added, "tools" our team at Akron Steel Treating has to help our Customers compete in today’s highly competitive world.

We invite you to Contact Us and get the details to put AST’s metallurgical knowledge to work for your Company. Akron Steel Treating Company’s high quality heat treating services can reduce your overhead burden, and turn your heat treating costs into more easily managed variable costs.

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