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Our flexible processing plant,
analytical laboratory and metallography facility provide
excellent foundations from which to develop new materials
or enhance the performance of existing products.
The technical
effort is driven by a highly qualified and experienced
team, with support from a capable,
well-equipped facility:
Processing plant
- Arc-melting furnaces for the preparation of alloy button samples
- Vacuum induction melters 5kg furnaces facilitate the preparation of trial alloys and test melts for pilot scale production. Established technologies can be transferred to larger scale using one of our seven VIM furnaces.
- Powders particle size distribution can be engineered to suit application. Powder trials can be undertaken using mechanical milling or water / inert gas atomisation.
- Heat treatment alloys can be heat-treated under protective atmosphere to manipulate alloy microstructure and phase distribution.
Analytical Laboratory
LCM has a highly experienced analytical team, we operate:
- A fully equipped wet chemistry laboratory
- Two ICP-OES instruments for the determination of chemical composition and the levels of metallic impurities
- Fusion gas analysis (LECO) for carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur.
Metallography
A highly specified optical microscope is used to characterise
the microstructures of alloy products and newly developed materials. This
capability can be used to examine the effect of processing conditions and
also to gain knowledge of structure property relationships. The equipment
is enhanced by the addition of state-of-the-art digital imaging and analysis
software. LCM also has access to electron microscopy facilities through
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