With changing customer demand, the engineering industry is moving toward a lot of innovation and new products. The industry relies on IRON as one of the primary ingredients in the production of various engineering products.
Because of its extremely low impurity profile, stable particle sizes, shape, and economic availability in various grades and prices, iron is a key element in many applications around the world.
Industrial Metal Powders (I) Pvt Ltd, the leading manufacturer of high purity iron powder in the world, produces a wide range of high-purity iron powders in different grades and shapes. Our iron powders are capable of serving various engineering applications where they are in great demand. Here, let us look at the top five engineering applications of iron powders.
- For manufacturing diamond cutting tools
Fine grades of iron are always important in the diamond cutting tool industries. Fine grades aid in the reduction of sintering temperatures, the extension of tool life, and the proper holding of the diamond. Because of its stability, it aids in the reduction of other costly metal powders such as Co, Ni, and W. IMP’s Extra Fine grades, particularly EC10TR, are an excellent substitute for more expensive forms of other fine iron powders.
- EMI Shielding
High purity iron powders are manufactured in fine grades to exhibit exceptional magnetic behaviour. This finely graded iron powder suppresses eddy currents and maintains magnetic stability in the GHz range. This causes iron powders to interact strongly with the magnetic field vector of electromagnetic waves, making them an excellent absorber of electromagnetic frequencies. Iron powder is easily incorporated into plastics and elastomers. Other materials used for EMI shielding include sheet metal, metal screens, metal foam, and copper.
- MR fluids
Magnetorheological fluids, or MR Fluids, have enormous potential in the application of vehicle suspension systems and dampeners. At low-magnitude magnetic fields, these smart fluids exhibit high shear stresses. IMP, a pioneer in the production of high purity iron powder and flakes, offers specially formulated CIMR-120AG MR Fluids for electronically controlled critical motion control systems such as clutches, brakes, damping systems, and artificial joints.
- For making friction material
Friction materials are used in automobiles, commercial vehicles, aircraft, motorcycles, trains, off-road vehicle braking systems, as well as other industrial applications. Simply put, these materials help vehicles stop by being a part of the brake pad or drum brake lining.
The precise composition of a brake lining is frequently a closely guarded secret, and achieving it is almost as much an art as it is a science. Iron powder is a key component in semi-metallic brake linings, improving both performance and long-term reliability and durability.
Iron powder is used as a filler in friction materials while also adding significant thermal transfer properties, which aids in heat dissipation, improving performance and reducing brake pad wear. The high internal porosity of IMP’s high-purity iron powder reduces brake noise, rotor wear, and pad wear to a greater extent than other metallic alternatives.
- In surface coating
Iron powder is used in the surface coating process to deposit a layer of fine-grained metal particles. In most cases, the grain size is worked on for fusion processes in order to achieve high-grade consistency and uniformity, which is equivalent to high-temperature thermal bonding of iron metal to the surface. In the first instance, such coatings may be used to improve the resilience and wear resistance of high-speed moving parts in engineering processes such as engine valves, steel rollers, printing rollers, and glass bottle manufacturing moulds. These applications share the characteristic of being subjected to high impact and at a rapid rate, making them prone to wear and tear over time.
The surface’s quality iron coating greatly reduces the loss of efficiency due to wear and increases the surface’s endurance. However, the technique used to coat iron powder on the desired surface is equally important, so iron powder manufacturers offer special grade iron powders for these coating techniques.
Conclusion
Iron powder is a vital raw material for numerous engineering applications. It is produced in micro to nano-sized grains from pure iron. Due to the unique physical properties obtained from several iron particles, this has been the undisputed alternative in various engineering applications.
IMP, the largest supplier of high-purity iron powder in the world, has a world-class manufacturing facility, which is capable of providing QUALITY, CUSTOMIZATION, and CONSISTENCY to different industries, including the engineering sector. Our iron powder produced in different grades follows all the standard parameters and is provided with ISO 9001, ISO 14001,ISO 45001 & FSSC 22000 certificates. Thus, IMP is the best and ideal solution for the requirements of iron powder for different applications, including the engineering sector.
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