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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.
Suppliers
Suppliers 1
Companies that perform this process on customer material.
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Bodycote Reported
Steel alloys named in the material list; HIP densifies castings and powder parts by closing internal porosity. 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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Input material
Forms this process takes in.