Quality

In the past decade, we've made a significant investment in new equipment, technology and processes to boost the quality of our carbide preforms to industry-leading levels. These investments have touched every aspect of our production process, from order entry to manufacturing, quality control and packaging.

Our Investments in Quality

While our investments greatly enhance product quality, they also reduce turnaround times through automation and stronger in-house capabilities, including:

• CAD/CAM systems that make it easy to download your files, providing speed and accuracy in the early stages of production.
• Multiple sinter-HIP furnaces that produce preforms with little to no porosity. Sinter-HIP'ing can also provide up to a 50% increase in nominal transverse rupture strength. We sinter-HIP all of our grades.
• Stress-relieving all products that will be EDM finished to allow for more aggressive machining. At your request, we can perform this operation on any of our other products.
• Spray dryer that produces high-flow powders, allowing us to manufacture complex parts in our automatic presses. These presses, which meet or exceed the industry's highest precision standards, offer consistent, high-volume production capabilities. Robots used in tandem with the presses, further increase our production efficiency and consistency.
• Advanced CNC machines that give us the ability to make complex preform shapes with superior dimensional control.
• Rigorous quality controls throughout our production process that ensure our products meet your requirements and our high standards. Our coordinate measuring machines provide quick and accurate dimensional readings, while all of our gauges undergo regular calibrations that are NIST-traceable and follow ISO guidelines. We've also invested in upgrading our Quality Control Department with a new Materials Laboratory that's outfitted with advanced materials testing equipment and a Nikon metallograph.
• Rapid turnaround times on orders requiring Invar plugging.
• The addition of a dedicated nickel binder room and segregation of cellular manufacturing from sub-micron to medium to coarse grain sizes to ensure these materials remain in their purest form. We've also instituted cellular rush-order processing to meet your expedited delivery requirements.

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