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Stainless Steel Hot Isostatic Pressing

I have castings or additive parts with internal porosity. Who can HIP them, and what size envelope do they have?

What it is

Applying high inert gas pressure at elevated temperature to collapse internal porosity. Standard for closing shrinkage in castings, densifying additive manufactured parts and consolidating powder into near net shapes.

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Companies that perform this process on customer material.

  • Bodycote Reported
    Macclesfield · Service provider

    Stainless steel alloys named in the material list; HIP is a core Bodycote service and the group states the largest HIP capacity globally. CAVEAT: Bodycote operates 245 plants in 21 countries and WHICH plant holds WHICH approval is not established from these sources. A NADCAP thermal processing approval belongs to a furnace at a named site, not to the corporate brand. Confirm the plant before qualifying to it.

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  • Kittyhawk, Inc. Reported
    Garden Grove, CA · Service provider
    AS9100NADCAP Heat TreatingVessel diameters 18 in to 63 in
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