Heat Treatment Solutions for Metals and Ceramics:
Hot Presses and Spark Plasma Sinter Technology
Components made for very harsh environments require very special processes to make them. With sintering equipment such as “Hot Presses” or “Spark Plasma Sintering Machines” components with high-end material properties required to meet demanding applications can become manufacture.
Typical material systems for Spark Plasma Sinter Technology:
Metals: W, Mo, Cr, Ru, Si, Cu, Cu (+W / Cr)
Intermetallics: TiAl, Ni3Al, PbTe, SmCo5
Carbides: WC, B4C, SiC, TiC, ZrC
Nitrides: AlN, TiN, Si3N4 (+TiN), hBN (+TiB2)
MMC / CMC: Al / Ti (+ SiC / Al2O3), Steel (+ TiC/N), Co / Cr / Pt (+ Oxides)
Cutting Tools: WC-Co/Ni/Steel (+cBN, +Diam.), Al2O3-Ti(C,N)
Armor materials: B4C, SiC, ZrB2, TiB2, Al2O3 (+CNT)
Transparent: Spinel, Al2O3,
Nano-structured Materials
Functional / Functionally Graded Materials („FGM“)
COMPONENT APPLICATION EXAMPLES TOWARDS THE END OF THIS PAGE
Example: Hot Presses for Production
- 22500 kN
- 2400 °C
- Workpieces up to 300 mm diameter
- Gas Ar / He / N2
- Vacuum 10-2 mbar
- Pyrometer- and TC-controlled
- Cooling chamber
- Loading device
Example: LAB -Spark Plasma Sintering Technique “FAST”
Spark Plasma Sintering also called Field Assisted Sintering Technology (FAST) is an Emerging Disruptive Manufacturing Technology. Please read the paper „Industrial Scale Field Assisted Sintering“ to get a first brief idea of the technology.
- Pressing force 5 … 250 kN
- Piston stroke 0 … 100 mm
- Piston velocity 0 … 2 mm/s
- Temperature RT … 2400 °C
- Heating rate up to 1000 K/min
- Gas pressure 5*10-3 … 1.100 mbar
- Pulse voltage 0 … 8 V
- Pulse current 0 … 8 kA
- Power max. 60 kW
- Pulse time 1 … 255 ms
- Pause time 0 … 255 ms
Servo hydraulik force control - Temperature measurement control can be chosen between axial/radial pyrometer or flexible thermocouples
- Furnace gases Ar and/or N2 (others on request)
- User friendly online process management system
Example: Hybrid Heated FAST/SPS Furnace
- Pressing force 4000 kN
- Heating power FAST 400 kW
- Heating power induction 400 kW
- Maximum workpiece diameter 450 mm
Application Examples:

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