Frank Masyada Invents ColdFire Technology
Industrial Cryogenic Treatment
COLDfire - The modern Industrial Revolution
The COLDfire Thermal Cycling Process of cryogenic treatment for industrial parts is not a surface treatment - it affects the entire mass of the component being treated. This ?through material? treatment means the process keeps working for the life of the component. The treatment does not cease to be effective after the surface is worn or otherwise damaged. It continues to provide the same benefit to subsequent grinding or sharpening. The hardness of the material treated is unaffected. There is no additional tendency to crack or chip, while strength and durability are actually increased.
The COLDfire process represents a major technological breakthrough that can improve every aspect of Industry and production. The process is several steps beyond anything even dreamt about by the developers of Cryogenic Technology. This is a process that not only realizes the most positive effects of cryogenics, but adds a heat tempering stage to significantly reduce, and in some cases eliminate, high frequency vibration in metal components, the cause of most wear.
Because the COLDfire process is generations ahead of current cryogenic treatments, the changes in material structure can be made in a fraction of the time taken by what is, in comparison to COLDfire, a primitive process. It has demonstrated regular improvements in wear life of industrial components of up to three times, and in many cases more than that.
By uniquely altering grain structures at the molecular level, the process permits extensive stress relief to take place in the material being treated. This then results in measurable reductions in micro-cracking as an added benefit to the extension of wear properties. It has also proven capable of dramatically improving the performance and wearability of a wide variety of parts, tooling and components used daily in manufacturing and industrial applications.
Initially developed and applied to the strengthening of critical materials at extreme sub-zero temperatures,COLDfire, as currently used in the space program, is now available in Australia to extend life and improve the performance of high wearing components or where safety and performance are major concerns.
The COLDfire process, developed over the past five years, has revolutionised the industries of Cryogenics and Heat Tempering. COLDfire has demonstrates results more than double the wear life previously available by the application of other process alone.
The COLDfire proces has been widely tested by leading edge laboratories a number of large corporations worldwide. In every application tested, it has produced results not previously thought possible.
What is a proven fact is that industrial companies using the COLDfire process have in some cases been able to reduce their tooling costs by up to a staggering 50%.