Products

  • Additive Manufacturing Powder

    Additive manufacturing processes offer freedom in design, short lead times and minimised tooling costs. The range of powders for additive manufacturing processes is constantly being expanded and improved to meet the increasing demands on the mechanical properties and corrosion resistance of printed parts in toolmaking, the aerospace industry and the automotive industry.

  • Alloys with specific physical properties

    This product group includes a wide variety of alloys, e.g. soft magnetic Iron-Cobalt alloys for applications in solenoid control valves, but also Iron-Nickel (Cobalt) alloys with temperature-dependent, low thermal expansion for use in measurement and control technology, for glass to metal seals and thermobimetals and also alloys with shape memory effect.

  • Bearing steels

    These steels are used as rolling elements in bearings in all areas of mechanical engineering. In addition to Carbon, Chromium is the main alloying element. Hardness, wear resistance and fatigue strength are achieved by hardening and tempering to hardness values of over 60 HRC and special steel purity. For special bearings high-speed steels are also used.

  • Cold work tool steels

    Cold work steels are mainly used in cold forming tools. Hardness, wear resistance, toughness, compressive strength and fatigue strength are achieved by alloying with Carbon and Chromium, Tungsten, Molybdenum, Vanadium and Manganese. Hardness values of 50 to over 64 HRC are achieved by hardening and tempering the tool components.

  • Corrosion resistant steels

    Corrosion resistance is achieved by a chromium content of over 10.5 % by a maximum Carbon content of 1.2 % and increases with higher Chromium and Molybdenium contents. Balanced alloying technology results in different property profiles and austenitic, ferritic, semi-martensitic,martensitic or ferritic-austenitic microstructures. Austenitic steels are generally not magnetisable.

  • Creep resistant steels

    High-temperature and creep-resistant steels are used at temperatures up to 650 °C [1202.0°F], are mainly alloyed with Chromium, Molybdenum, Vanadium, Tungsten and Niobium and exhibit high resistance to high-temperature corrosion. Stable precipitations of the alloying elements results in high creep-resistance. The use application of this steel group is closely linked to the development of energy technology.

  • Engineering steels

    Engineering steels are used for a variety of applications throughout the mechanical engineering industry. These include quenched and tempered steels, nitriding steels and high-strength, maraging steels for lightweight construction, as well as case-hardening steels for gear manufacturing and highly stressed plastic moulds.

  • Heat-resisting steels

    Heat-resisting steels have special resistance, e.g. to the effects of gases and combustion products at temperatures above 550°C [1022.0°F]. The most important alloying element is chromium. Silicon and Aluminium also increase the resistance to scaling. The main areas of application are furnace construction and the cement and ceramics industries.

  • High speed steels

    Cutting tools made of High-Speed Steel achieve high hot hardness, wear resistance and fracture resistance at a hardness of over 60 to 67 HRC through hardening and tempering. The main alloying elements are Carbon, Tungsten, Molybdenum, Vanadium and Cobalt. High contents of carbide-forming elements lead to the formation of wear-resistant carbides in the microstructure.

  • Hot work tool steels

    Tools for hot forming processes require fracture resistance, hot wear resistance and resistance to thermal fatigue. Tempered 3% and 5% CrMoV steels with a hardness of approximately 35 to 55 HRC fulfil these requirements perfectly. Particularly highly stressed tool inserts are also manufactured from maraging steels of the type Fe-18% Ni-Co-Mo-Ti.

  • Ni-Base alloys

    Nickel-based alloys are used as high-temperature and chemically resistant materials. The chemical resistance is primarily determined by the alloying elements Chromium, Molybdenum and Tungsten. Maximum thermal resistance can be achieved by precipitation hardening with Aluminium, Niobium and Titanium.

  • Plastic mould steels

    The requirements for mould steels are more diverse than in any other manufacturing process. Wear resistance, especially when processing fibre-reinforced plastics, and in addition corrosion resistance, machinability, polishability, thermal conductivity and mechanical properties are among the most important criteria.