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Magnesium Superplastic Forming

I need a complex formed sheet structure or a hollow bonded panel. Who has SPF or SPF/DB capability?

What it is

Forming fine grained sheet at elevated temperature under gas pressure, exploiting the very high elongation some alloys exhibit in a narrow temperature and strain rate window. Often combined with diffusion bonding to produce hollow structures in one operation.

Suppliers

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Companies that perform this process on customer material.

  • Luxfer Superform Reported
    Riverside, CA · Service provider

    Magnesium superplastic forming is reported in third-party profiles. Not stated on the company page fetched. Notable because magnesium forming capacity is otherwise almost absent from this atlas. Verify before relying on it.

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Input material

Forms this process takes in.

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