Powdered Metal
Key advantages are making powder metallurgy a number one choice for leading manufacturers worldwide looking for lower costs, improved quality, increased productivity and greater design flexibility.
- Diversity and flexibility of material properties available to increase performance and reduce machining
- Converting to powder metallurgy from cast or machined components can save as much as 40 percent
- Improves productivity – eliminates or minimizes machining
- High raw material utilization (close to 100%)
- Reduces energy consumption
- Enables rapid and low-cost mass production
- Offers unmatched design flexibility – simple cylinder to multi-level component
- High dimensional accuracy
- Good surface finish
- Durability of dies and tooling – high volumes can be produced at high speeds
- Materials can be heat-treated for increased strength or increased wear-resistance
- Controlled porosity for self-lubrication or filtration
- Increases strength and corrosion resistance
- Environmentally friendly – saves natural resources through recycling, conserves raw materials and manufacturing process yields low emissions
- With powered metal, even "impossible" material combinations – like graded structures or composite metals – are possible
Contact Stork Kelch to learn about the cost savings of the powdered metal process.
GKN Sinter Metals
GKN Sinter Metals, a wholly owned subsidiary of GKN plc, is the world's leading producer of precision powdered metal components.
With more than 30 manufacturing facilities around the world, GKN Sinter Metals supplies a full range of production processes and press tonnage ranging from five tons to over 2,500 tons.
- World's largest compacting press
- Innovative assembly capabilities
- High and low temperature sintering lines
- Comprehensive, dedicated machining centers
- Automated and flexible manufacturing cells