The TTT Group offers a comprehensive service and products for this industry

The automotive industry is a sector in which thermal treatments play an important role. Companies like Group TTT, in fact, while acting in various sectors and support including much of its growth in industries outside of the car (see story on this company in MetalUnivers March 2008), have in the manufacture of cars a market that depends on a large part of its activity.

TTT group, consisting of 5 small business, is immersed in an ascending line in various sectors, of the aircraft between them. However, the automotive is the sector which owns most of the clients of this Basque group. And so it will remain, according to think those responsible. TTT group is a company dimensionada and designed to respond to large series and thinking in these terms, today the car industry is that occupies the first order in the list of clients of the group, specializing in as preferential treatments, cementation, treatments in high vacuum, nitriding treatment by induction, cromoduro and grinding, as well as projections thermal plasma, HVOF, HFPD, electric arc, etc.

Moreover, to its activity of heat and surface treatments, sum already other two specific activities for the car. One of them is the offshoots of shock absorber manufacture through their company TTT axes, which offers all the processes for the production of this piece to the sector of the buffer and goes to the maker of shock absorbers. The aim and the system is quite clear. TTT axes buy material and submits it to diverse, as induction treatments, straightened, finished in hard chrome, polished, deshidrogenado, finish final and packed. Completed the process, which has all the necessary means, send the finished piece to diverse manufacturers throughout the world.

Another activity intended, among other sectors, the automobile is also another product based on technology that dominates. He is the manufacture of wear tools used in the injection pressure of aluminum and magnesium, marketed with the brand TTT Press. In this case, the machining of parts, like Pistons, shirts, containers, and others, is being outsourced to companies in their environment. The added value that TTT Group adds to the already machined parts, his secret, is in the finish, in treatment. In other words, the process of stabilized, treatment thermal tempering, grinding, lapping, fine finish, nitriding and packaging, is carried out in their own facilities, resulting in the end a product warranty. What you get is considerably increase the number of injections, which has many positive effects: improved performance, lowering of the injected parts and lower consumption of tools and, ultimately, reduction of costs and problems in the foundry.