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duces spherical particles in the micrometer range. The particles cool down to microscopic spheres forming the metal powder. The ne metal powder undergoes further treatment and will be graded by grain sizes, resulting in fractions of high-purity product of perfect spherical shape, with de ned grain sizes between 15 and 45 mi- crometers, an exact chemical anal- ysis and free from inclusions and satellites (agglomerated material).
Norbert Gober, SMS group: “Our powder is of unparalleled quality because we have the knowhow and expertise to master the complete production process. This means at all steps and in all processes from metallurgy, melting, inert gas based vacuum technology down to quality control, we can build on SMS group experience and compe- tence.“
SPECIAL MATERIALS FOR NEW PERFORMANCE PROPERTIES
The new powder atomization plant makes metal powder from superal- loys, Ni-based alloys, CoCr alloys, special steels, maraging steels and copper allows. Markus Hüllen: “The plant allows us to develop new alloys with new properties together with our customers and – this is unique – under real pro- duction conditions. At the same time we are establishing the basis for Industrie 4.0 in powder pro- duction as we are going to imple- ment an automated, seamless quality control system covering the complete process chain of additive manufacturing. This type of consistent documentation and 100 percent traceability are an absolute must, for example, for components produced for the aer- ospace industry.“
Additively manufactured compo- nents are already used in a number
Crucible change concept allowing for different crucible sizes (here: 100 kilograms)
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