Bodycote plc (BOY) Ordinary 17 3/11p

Bodycote plc is a provider of heat treatment and specialist thermal processing services. 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. It 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.