
Rare Earths


Treatment




Overview
- Milling:
- Ball Mills
- Vibratory Mills
- Three Roll Mills
- Mixing:
- Shear Mixers
- Basket Mills
- Planetary Mixers
- Powder:
- High Speed Agglomeration
- Sub-Micron Sifting
- Highly uniform particle size distribution and dispersion
- Conductive ink processing
- In-house ceramic material development expertise
- Wet build-up
- Dry build-up
- Ceramic spraying
- Single & dual action pressing
- Hydraulic extrusion
- CNC machining centers and diamond finishing
- High temperature tunnel kilns
- Periodic kilns for high flexibility
- Over 50 proprietary formulations
- All processing and equipment highly controlled
- Automated plating line:
- Gold
- Silver
- Nickel
- Solder Finishes
- Tightly Controlled Using XRF
- Thick film application for conductive and insulating properties
- Thin film applications for fine line deposition and sputter coating
- Dicing, laser cutting & laser trimming available
- Diamond machining for precise thickness dimensions and surface finish
- Programmable ink jet and laser printing for surface marking
- In-process and final testing for all customer specified parameters
- Electrical Testing:
- Capacitance
- Power Factor
- Withstanding Voltage
- Insulation Resistance, etc.
- Humidity
- Engineering team with well rounded knowledge gained through direct industry experience, both internally and externally, within the ceramic manufacturing realm
- Variable pressure scanning electron microscope for structural analysis
- Energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy for elemental analysis
- Low and high optical metallographic microscopes for product examination
- Thermal gravimetric analysis for material development
- Particle size distribution and surface area analysis equipment for dispersion and milling development
- Close proximity to the Pennsylvania State University, world renown for materials research and development
