While in the beginning of 20^th century, chromium was included into cobalt, nickel and iron based alloys. The received products were significantly resistant to atmospheric conditions and to oxidation at the elevated temperatures. During World war 2, some of these alloys now comprising of more alloying agents had been used as resistance wires, dental prostheses, cutlery,furnace and steam turbine parts and more. With the invention of gas turbine engine while war, there was a need of corrosion resistant materials to use in demanding mechanical load conditions at the elevated temperatures. At this level, the development of superalloy industry started.

By enhancing the stainless steels, increased strengths were obtained without the requirement for special high temperature strengthening phases. The phases liken (nickel titanium compound) or gamma’ (nickel aluminum compound) had been developed into nickel-chromium families of alloys to obtain high strength at the elevated temperatures. The increased temperatures had driven the alloy specialists to add these phases (n and gamma’) in the iron base alloys to receive the elevated temperature strength properties more than stainless steels.

The demand for creep rupture strength regularly increased. Some of these requirements were fulfilled in the earlier years by using cobalt base corrosion resistant alloy for employing in aircraft engine superchargers and then to airfoils in the warm regions of gas turbines. The cobalt base superalloys are also used in the present time. Although creep rupture needs for aircraft gas turbine operations soon needed more properties than those provided by cobalt base and iron-nickel based superalloys. Hence demand of nickel base superalloys to offer more of hardening phase gamma’ increased.

The superalloys rapidly are more enhanced for particular applications and a new specification is assigned. The composition can change as superalloy supplier or patent holders make enhancement to the original alloy composition. 

Producing Superalloy products basically needs some melting procedure. The ingots produced while melting are remelted, changed to powder for after consolidation to apart. Remelting is utilized to create an ingot that can be treated to wrought mill forms such as bar or can be forged. Melting of Superalloys in air or slag conditions was followed till the mid of 20^th century. The characteristics of modern superalloys derived basically from the availability of several elements that are reaction with oxygen and hence their weight was reduced to a large extent while melting and casting. Upon introducing the melting processes to the industrial production of products, these were dominated by superalloys. The vacuum enabled melting of superalloys comprising of large magnitudes of aluminum and titanium hardeners. Additionally, the simultaneous reduction in gases, oxides and other contaminants produced a crucial enhancement in ductility of superalloys. Additionally with increasing hardener magnitude strength of superalloys improved steeply. Enhancement in creep resistant property of alloys is received by decreasing magnitude of oxygen.