Since the 60s, Forges de Niaux has shown its mastery of the heat treatment process of boron steel disk blades.
It was the first manufacturer :
• To offer farming disk blades in boron steel.
• To increase the hardness of the disk blades to 160 kg/mm2 (in 1985).
• To patent a heat treatment process bringing the hardness to more than 215 kg/mm2.
A quality disk blade must respond to 2 opposing demands :
• It must have a sufficient hardness in order to resist wear.
• It must maintain nonetheless maximum flexibility to avoid breakage due to impacts.
Forges de Niaux ingenuity lies in the balance between hardness and flexibility.