Tungsten Manufacturing Operations

Tungsten Manufacturing Operations

Manufacturing Floor

Requirements to Produce our Quality Certified Tungsten Products; tungsten ball, tungsten, sphere, tungsten cube are:

  • People:    Metallurgical, Mechanical, Chemical, and Industrial Engineering staff coupled with Technical Operators and Machinists.
  • Equipment:    Customized. High-Tech Machinery and Systems.
  • Processes:    Fully Integrated Chemical, Mechanical and Industrial Manufacturing Processes.

High-Tech, Computerized Integrated Manufacturing Systems to drive Repeatable Quality Products

Advanced Metallurgical and Chemical Composition Operations

Repository of Skilled Labor Driving Increasing demand for Higher Technical and Professional Education

Incoming Powder Receiving & Testing

Fette-Powder Compacting

De-Binding

Sintering

Tumbling

Annealing

Sorting

Grinding

Cleaning-Washing

Sizing-Roller Meter

Quality Testing

Shipping

Powder Metallurgy & Pressing Systems

  • Verified for composition, density, flowability and size
  • Once approved by our Quality Lab, the powders are pressed into a variety of shape, held together with a proprietary binder
  • The pressed parts are then heated in a series of high temperature, thermal processing steps. These heat treatments convert the powder compacts into solid fragments of tungsten heavy alloy
  • Product finishing often includes grinding to size, producing perfectly shaped spheres and cubes

Thermal Processing

Debinding

Debind

Liquid-Phase Sintering

Sinter

Vacuum Annealing

Three Separate Heat Treatment Processes Required to Produce High-Density Tungsten Alloy Products:

  1. Debinding
  2. Liquid-Phase Sintering
  3. Vacuum Annealing

Tumbling, Sorting & Grinding

Tumbling
Sorting
Grinding
  • The steps to produce uniform and extremely precise fragments is no small feat!
  • Creative solutions to seemingly simple problems often lead to new innovations
  • Largest grinding facility is the largest in the United States

Cleaning, Sizing & Verification Inspection

Cleaning
Rollermeter
Verification Inspection

Our metallurgical process begins with raw materials, a blend of tungsten and other metal powders

 

  • Delivering clean, precision products is critical to our Quality Commitments
  • Ensuring compliance with our customer specifications involves no less than seven steps in the verification Process
  • Inspecting products takes time and extreme attention to details