Alternative sintering methods for sustainable manufacturing: SINTERFAST
Channel: TECNALIA
Date: 2021-05-03

Sustainable and efficient manufacturing is a necessity for companies, both to reduce the ecological footprint and to reduce costs. At TECNALIA we are working on new alternative heating techniques to make processes more efficient for the industry. 
 
A clear example of this is SINTERFAST. SINTERFAST is based on electrical sintering, which basically consists of introducing powders into a mold, 

applying an electric current and pressure to obtain a fully densified final piece. 


The great advantage of this compared to a conventional process is that in SINTERFAST the heating of the material takes only seconds 

while conventional furnace heating takes hours. This is inefficient from an energetic point of view, and so the sinterfast process is very interesting for short and medium series, as well as being a flexible process that can obtain improved properties in terms of hardness and toughness. Different metal and metal-ceramic materials  can be obtained  with this process, such as magnetic materials, cutting tools, mining tools, thermoelectrics or any small component based on titanium, cobalt, iron or nickel. At TECNALIA we will continue the development of these types of techniques to obtain more sustainable processes for the industry. 


CONTACT

➡Miguel Angel Lagos 
miguel.lagos@tecnalia.com 
➡Iñigo Agote 
inigo.agote@tecnalia.com 




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