Powder Metallurgy is a continually and rapidly evolving technology embracing most metallic and alloy materials, and a wide variety of shapes. PM is a highly developed method of manufacturing reliable ferrous and non ferrous parts. Some of the benefits of the PM process are Tailored Solutions, Consistency, high levels of Porosity and Longevity. Created by mixing elemental or alloy powders and compacting the mixture in a die, the resultant shapes are then heated or "sintered" in a controlled atmosphere furnace to bond the particles metallurgically

SINTEF has a well equipped powder metallurgical lab:

• Equipment for powder mixing and characterisation
• Cold pressing, hot pressing and HIP facilities
• Furnaces for sintering in protected atmosphere
• Microwave sintering capabilities

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Functionally graded material	Macrograph showing a 14-layer Cu-Ni multilayer specimen. Layer thickness is about 300 microns