Advantages & Benefits Hot Isostatic pressing
Interested in combining heat treatment with HIP all in one facility?
proven benefits
HIP allows developers and engineers to optimize component design and manufacture, whilst simultaneously improving microstructural homogeneity and material properties.
- Superior material properties
- Reduced property scatter
- Improved machined & polished surface
- Low weight design
- No internal defects
- Lower production cost
improved properties
HIP gives improved mechanical properties, a general reduction in scatter of these properties, as well as the possibility to polish also cast, welded or powder metal parts, to the highest surface finish offering more predictive properties.
steering the HIP cycle
The controllability of the HIP system is versatile. Set-up specific heating, densification and cooling regimes to ensure repeatable performance. Our HIP units are equipped with proprietary Uniform Rapid Cooling (URC) feature. Via URC it is possible to combine material densification and heat treatment in one single process because desired cooling rates can be set. URC enables all processed components to cool uniformly in a controlled environment, resulting in minimal thermal distortion and non-uniform grain growth. This allows the design of desired microstructures whilst ensuring densification of products. Heat treatment (stress relief, solution annealing) and HIP can be done in one tailored HIP process step when needed.
clean HIP operations
efficient production
HIP not only improves products through densification, but also leads to reduced quality costs. High speed production of components (e.g. fast printing in AM) in combination with defect removal and high-pressure heat-treatment using HIP, can reduce energy significantly whilst reducing overall cost.
