Bodycote

Bodycote is the world's largest service provider of heat treatment and specialist metallurgical technologies, describing itself as the metallurgy performance experts. It operates a network of more than 150 facilities in over 20 countries, which it presents as the most extensive thermal processing network in the world, so customers can work with a local plant while drawing on global capacity, specialised processes and technical knowledge. Its services include heat treatment, hot isostatic pressing, powder metallurgy and surface technology.

What Bodycote does

Virtually every metal component needs some form of treatment to reach the required performance and to last in service. Bodycote's metallurgical treatments improve the properties of metals and alloys so that its customers' products perform in both critical and everyday applications, from aerospace and defence components to industrial parts. Its global team of metallurgists, engineers and technicians works with customers from prototyping to production, refining legacy processes and supporting next-generation platforms, with the aim of solving technical challenges, cutting time to market and improving component lifetime.

Sustainability

Bodycote states that it is the only major thermal processing company to provide dedicated sustainability services. Through optimised efficiencies, lower-carbon technologies and longer component life, it helps customers achieve more with less, and it publishes guidance such as a booklet on choosing the right surface engineering treatment.

Why customers outsource to Bodycote

• Depth of expertise across materials, applications and critical tolerances
• Accredited metallurgical services with measurable results and real-world data
• Local relationships backed by global resources and capacity for new programmes, regional launches or extra volume
• Engineering collaboration at every stage, from prototyping to production

Shows

Bodycote appears in the exhibitor lists of Aeromart Toulouse 2026, VERTICON 2027 and the Paris Air Show 2027.

Contact

Locations: more than 150 facilities in over 20 countries
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