Carbide specialists and technology leaders: Boehlerit
Boehlerit, which is headquartered in Kapfenberg, Austria, has many years of expertise in metallurgy and state-of-the-art coating and pressing technology - the company's core competencies. Expenditure on research and development amounting to 5% of sales also supports the permanent further development of processes and products at a high level.
Boehlerit places great emphasis on the development and design of quality products that are as durable and recyclable as possible, environmentally friendly measures in their manufacture and minimal environmental impact in the operation of the products.
Martin Willinger, the company's production manager, has been with Boehlerit for over 30 years. "Process-optimized sintering sequences are particularly important to us. For quality reasons, Boehlerit sinters exclusively in HIP sintering furnaces (HIP: Hot Isostatic Pressing), which are designed for pressures of up to 100 bar. We place the highest value on uniformity, high cooling rates and safe operation."
Advantages of using a PVA Sinter-HIP furnace
- Wide product portfolio: volume production or fast & flexible response to customer requirements with the same high quality.
- Reduction of cooling time by approx. 15 - 20%.
- Significant reduction of dewaxing time due to double dewaxing equipment
- Uniformity of metallurgical results
- Innovative control concept allows a big step towards Industry 4.0 with data exchange, remote maintenance and process documentation
The systems are used at all production locations, which enables redundant production and consistent quality standards.