Jenike & Johanson - Industries

Powdered Metals Industry
Client List

Examples of
Materials
Handled

Powdered Metals

The P/M industry (Powdered Metals / Ceramics / Cermets / Intermetallics) is diverse and sophisticated and includes automotive, aerospace, medical and dental, electronics, defense, lawn and garden, hardware and appliances. The vision of this industry is to continuously seek out new materials, and innovative techniques to manipulate these materials, to enable its customer base to solve increasingly difficult problems related to energy conservation, reliability, size and weight reduction, biocompatibility, product performance, and cost.

Our assistance to parts producers, involves designing or improving processes to deliver fewer defects (six sigma), higher density (full density), and closer near-net-shape parts with greater strength and lower weight. Flow problems are often due to erratic or inconsistent flow (including arching and ratholing ) as well as segregation of the mix or blend from the P/M powder producer through delivery to the final process step (e.g., feed shoe delivery into the die cavity, feed into the HIP can, MIM or PIM feed, etc.) We can apply our industry-leading technology and years of experience to avoid process upsets due to mishandling of materials.

Partial List of Powdered Metals Industry Clients		x hide list
Alcan, Canada Alcoa Asarco Atlantic Copper Borg Warner Automotive Chemetals Dodge; Div. of Rockwell Domfer Metal Powders Electro Copper Products Elkem Metals	Ferro General Motors GKN H.C. Starck Heraeus Hoeganaes Kemet Electronics Corp. Lincoln Electric Mascotech Sintered Components Metal Powder Components Noranda Sampling	OMG Americas PM Resources Powdertech Pyron Quebec Metal Powders SGM Armtek Tecsyn PMP Titanium Metals Windfall Products Zenith Sintered Products

Some of the Materials We Have Handled

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Aluminum Powder
Brass Powder
Copper Powder
Ferrite Powder

Iron Powder
- Atomized
- Bonded
- Preannealed

Nickel Powder
Steel Powder
- Annealed
- Stainless

Tungsten Oxide/Carbon Powder Mix

KEY ENGINEERING SERVICES

Plant visit for troubleshooting handling problems
Flow properties testing of powdered metal
Pneumatic conveying testing for metal powder blends
Functional design of bins, hoppers, chutes and feeders

Raw material, intermediate and finished product
In-bin and tumble mixing and blending
Minimizing segregation concerns

Physical modeling of powdered metal handling operation
Structural engineering for pressurized, large-scale equipment
Detailed design engineering

If your plant is currently experiencing metals handling difficulties or implementing new metals handling facilities, contact Jenike & Johanson to help you prevent and solve powdered metal handling problems.