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No.16 Special Issue on “Engineering,” “Steel Section Products,” and “Iron and Steel Powders”

JIP^® Iron Powder Products and Technical Trends in Powder Metallurgy

SAITO Shigeyuki   OHTA Jun-ichi    FUJINAGA Masashi

Abstract

JFE Steel started production of iron powders in 1966, as the pioneer of the full-scale manufacturing facility of iron powder production in Japan, and has been contributing to the development of powder metallurgy industry as the only integrated iron powder manufacturer producing both reduced and atomized iron powders in Japan. In order to meet the recent demand for smaller and lighter sintered machine parts with higher strength, JFE Steel has developed “JIP^® Hybrid Mo Steel Powder,“ for higher fatigue strength of sintered parts realized by its composite structure obtained by the distribution of the alloy element, and “JIP^® Cleanmix HDX,“ premixed powder providing higher compact density. Moreover, the application field of iron powder covers wide range for not only sintered structural parts but also the application in chemical reaction and heat source, etc. JFE Steel develops iron powder products optimized for each technical field. This paper outlines JFE Steel's iron powder products corresponding to technology trends of these applications.

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