Powdered Metallurgy

Overview

• Highly developed method of manufacturing precision metal parts.
• Made by mixing elemental or alloy powders.
• Compacting the mixture in a die.
• Sintering the compact in an atmosphere controlled furnace.
• Basically a "chip-less" process, P/M uses roughly 97% of the starting material in the finished part.

Advantages

Because modern production technology can achieve a wide range of powder metal densities, opportunities to provide steel, stainless steel or bronze parts have been extended to an increasing number of applications. For cost effective production of your multi-level, complex parts consider these advantages of the powder metal process:

• Eliminates or minimizes machining.
• Maintains close dimensional tolerances.
• Permits a wide variety of alloy systems.
• Part to part repeatability.
• Manufacture of complex shapes impractical with other processes.