Cold Isostatic Pressing (CIP) Applications
Cold Isostatic Pressing is a process in which a powder material is filled into a flexible rubber mold having a scaled-up shape of the part (green body) to be produced. The powder is compacted in a pressure vessel under high liquid isostatic pressure (1380–4140 bar, 20,000-60,000 psi) at ambient or elevated temperature. After pressing, the resulting isotropic powder parts can normally be machined to final shape before firing, sintering, hot extrusion or hot isostatic pressing to final high density.
Typical applications include the compaction of:
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Graphite powder pre-forms
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Metal powder pre-forms
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Refractory metal pre-forms
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Cemented carbide pre-forms
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Refractory material pre-forms
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Advanced ceramic pre-forms
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PTFE pre-forms
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Explosives
Details of specific cold isostatic pressing applications are listed in the menu at left.
