“…Low-pressure carburizing [6,7,16] is better than conventional carburizing [4,5] in terms of efficiency and it is characterized by a number of advantages, such as lack of internal oxidation, higher uniformity of resulting layers, good energy efficiency and environmental friendliness. At the same time there is a constant increase in requirements regarding, among others, minimizing the negative phenomena resulting in dimensional changes after hardening and enabling the determination of nature and magnitude of these changes [1,3]. The answer to these requirements is the concept of single-piece flow treatment, in which every single item passes through the same process stages and conditions [10÷15].…”