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KAWASAKI STEEL TECHNICAL REPORT
No.29 ( November 1993 )
Special Issue on Iron Power
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Recent Trends in Iron Powder for Powder Metallurgy

Yasuaki Morioka
Synopsis :
Recent trends in iron powder for powder metallurgy, especially the consumption of iron powder in Japan, manufacturing equipment and capacity of iron powder manufacturers in the world, and progress in powder metallurgy technology and iron powder manufacturing techniques in the past forty years, are outlined. The newly developed KIP (Kawasaki Steel iron powder) products, particularly high compressibility atomized iron powder, good compatibility atomized iron powder, segregation-free iron powder which prevents the segregation of graphite powder, and low alloy steel powders for high strength sintered parts, are introduced. The recent level of strength obtainable with high strength sintered materials, and atomization techniques and mechanisms, are also described herein.
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