• Höganäs India Limited

Sintered Components

Hoganas AB, the world's largest manufacturer of iron powders, produces a wide range of iron/metal powders that are used in a variety of applications, including powder metallurgy, welding and chemical/metallurgical applications. Metal powders open up new possibilities for creative and cost-effective design solutions. Almost 80% of global iron and steel powder production is converted into sintered components. The manufacturing process involves the shaping of a tailor-made powder formulation by pressure and heat (sintering). Sintered components offer design freedom, almost 100% material utilization and many other benefits. Over 40 million sintered components are produced every day for use in numerous applications including vehicles, power tools and white goods. Features and benefits: More and more designers are choosing sintered components rather than metal parts traditionally manufactured by casting, forging, blanking or machining. Producing parts from powder creates value for small to medium-size components with complex shapes in large volumes. With sintered components, less is more. Fewer process steps, less machining and less wastage of material and energy in production add up to a solution with lowest total cost. Sintered components have been increasingly adopted in designs over the past few decades. Their success is mainly due to the significant cost savings derived from net or near-net shape processing compared to other metalworking methods. Machining is generally the largest single cost in metal component production. Sintered components can offer far more than cost savings. They can be made from tailored materials serving specific purposes and with a design that would be impractical or impossible for other manufacturing technologies.