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Metal Processing & Heat Treatment

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Metal Processing & Heat Treatment covers the thermal, joining, and surface-modification processes applied to aerospace metallic structures and components, including solution treatment, annealing, and stress relieving to specification (AMS, NADCAP), alongside arc, TIG, and laser welding, plasma and flame spraying, vacuum sputtering, shot peening for fatigue enhancement, and tube bending to tight tolerances.

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