Parts in the Oil and Gas Industry:

  • Pump Barrel
  • Plunger
  • Valves and Seats
  • Sucker Rods
  • Polished Rod
  • Production Tubes

  • Extrusion mandrels for seamless tubing
  • Forging dies for valve bodies, couplings, flanges

For manufacturing petrol industry parts like dies and mandrels - see Forging Industry

Requirements for the parts:

  • For high Hardness
  • For high Wear (abrasion) resistance
  • For high Fatigue strength
  • For Lower friction
  • For Corrosion resistance

Ion Nitriding Solutions:

  • Significantly increasing the surface hardness, wear resistance and fatigue life of the parts, improving their lifespan and performance.

  • Reducing the friction coefficient.
  • Increasing the corrosion resistance.
  • The core remains soft and ductile, allowing elongation and flexing.
  • Allows for tight dimensional tolerance - nitriding causes minimal to no increase in size.


Improving these parameters will save from downtime and maintenance costs.

Steel Grades Used:

table - steel grades in the oil and gas industry - nitriding
  • Hardness and depth values are recommended for the industry and exact values will depend on the nitriding process parameters.

  • This is not a full list of used steel grades

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  • Example of 41CrAlMo7-10 steel after Ion Nitriding - surface hardness and diffusion depth