Tantalum · Service
Tantalum Press and Sinter
I need the same small metal part in volume, near net, without machining each one. Who presses and sinters it?
What it is
Compacting metal powder in a die and consolidating it below the melting point, then working it down. The standard production route for refractory metals whose melting points are too high for conventional casting.
Suppliers
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Companies that perform this process on customer material.
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Materion Corporation Verified
A 'Sintered/Powder Metallurgy Tantalum Process' is named as a distinct production route alongside the melted route, offering premium texture control within and between targets. This is a production route rather than a toll sintering service. The distinction that matters when sourcing. IMPORTANT SCOPE LIMIT: this is semiconductor thin-film deposition material, not structural or chemical-process tantalum. Forms are targets, plates, coils and pots. Sheet, foil, rod, tube and wire are not named. And while the material is sourced from Newton, Massachusetts, the finished targets are produced at a South Korean plant, so this is not an end-to-end domestic supply chain.
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Input material
Forms this process takes in.