Prix Bodycote plc (BYPLF)

Bodycote Plc engages in the provision of thermal processing services. The company is headquartered in Macclesfield, Cheshire and currently employs 4,379 full-time employees. The Company’s Precision Heat Treatment division includes its business centered on the controlled heating and cooling of metals to obtain the desired mechanical, chemical and metallurgical properties for the end process. The company also includes its Low Pressure Carburising and Corr-I-Dur processes. Its Specialist Technologies division includes its Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) business, its Speciality Stainless Steel Processes (S3P) business, and its Surface Technology business. Its heat treatment services include case-hardening with subsequent hardening operation, case- hardening without subsequent hardening operation, hardening and tempering, annealing, ion implantation, and others. Its metal joining services include furnace/vacuum brazing, induction brazing, electron beam welding, and others. Its surface technology services include combustion spraying, flame spraying, plasma spraying, and others.