Facilities – Equipment List

Powder Processing and Solvent Processing Equipment

Inert Gas Glove Boxes
Jet Pulverizer Company S-1 and Trost Jet Mills
P-K(2) V-blenders/liquid-solids processors
Union Process HD-01, 1-S (2 ea), 10S and 30S (52gal) Mills
Ball Mill Station with Media and Jars
Patterson Kelly 150 and (2) 500 gallon ball mills
DRAIS horizontal pearl Mill
Premier and Drais horizontal media mills
Donaldson A2 Turbo-classifier
Prater Classifying Hammer Mill
(3) Explosion Proof Sweeco Screening Decks, 24"-40"
2" and 6" Wide Jaw Crushers
500 lb-hr Pulverizer System
8” X 6” roll crusher
Hakke sigma blade mixer
Hobart 20L planetary mixer
Glatt Laboratory Wurster Coater
Uni-Glatt Laboratory Wurster Coater
Glatt WSG12 200Kg Spray Coater
32” Rotary Calciner (CLC equipment)
22” Rotary Coating and calcining furnace
8” rotary coating and calcining furnace
350 Gallon Electroless Plating Tank
(4) 1.5”-3” benchtop fluidized CVD coaters
(6) 4”-8” pilot fluidized bed CVD powder coaters
4” benchtop rotary bed calciner/coater
Microballoon Pilot Production Drop Tower
5 meter hydrogen furnace drop tower
Niro production minor 48” spray dryer
12” Fluidized Bed production Coating unit


Consolidation and Sintering Equipment

200 ton 14” Mino Battista Roll Mill
5000 ton Harwood O frame press
1500 ton 7”x24” Watson-Farrel Extruder
4” Rolling Mill
(5) muffle and H2 reduction furnaces 1000°-1400°C
Autoclave Engineers Cold Isostatic Press
50 ton, 1400C Vacuum Hot Press
(4) 3-Zone Programmable Tube Furnaces
ASTRO 2800°C Vacuum Furnace
BREW 6’’ Hot Zone Tungsten Vacuum Furnace
REP 175 Ton, Large Format Injection Molder
Jaco III V-3 Injection Molder
Barnet 4" and 6" Extruders
Simplomatic Hydro Injection Molder
(2) Presscore 225 ton Hydraulic Presses
1.5” Hake Extruder with Calander Roll System
3-roll, 6”x24’ Calander Roll System
Cress 24”x24”x36” atmosphere furnace
Lindberg H2 sinterite 8x20 sintering furnace
Centorr 28"x20"x14" hot zone 1650C Molybdenum Element High Vacuum Furnace
36" x 24" x 18" 1100C Inert Atmosphere Furnace with Hydrogen Burn-off (heat treat furnace)
BTU Engineering, 6” wide, 1650C Molybdenum Hot Zone Hydrogen Pusher Furnace
Ipsen 48” dia x 60” 1600°C high vacuum sintering furnace
Unique equipment 12”x22” tape caster
Stevens and Bullivant 11A 20HP swaging machine


Analytical Equipment

Phillips Pan analytical X-ray Diffraction system
Perkin Elmer Model 2380 Atomic Adsorption Unit
Perkin Elmer Optimia 3100 ICP
Netzsch STA429 2800C Thermal Analysis System
Micromeritic Gemini 2360 BET
Amray 1000B Scanning Electron Microscope with EDX
LECO IR-412 Carbon Determinator
LECO WC-200 Carbon Determinator
LECO Oxygen Determinator
Sheffield Vickers Microhardness Tester
ASTM G65 wear tester
Tabor wear tester
Instron 1000lb load cell universal tester
10,000 lb load cell hydraulic compression tester
200 ft-lb Charpy impact tester
Instron 30,000lb load cell universal tester
Holometrics thermal conductivity tester
Horiba laser particle size analyzer
Gadner ball impact tester
200 ft-lb Charpy impact tester
Malvern 2000 laser particle size analyzer
Microtrac particle size analyzer
Micromeritics mercury porosymeter
Micromeritics Accupyc pychnometer
Buehler polisher and sample prearation
Leitz optical microscope
Optical comparator(s)