2011 has been a very busy year for our PoP Centre. We have run several compaction improvement campaigns together with customers and also held a number of application engineering seminars together with OEMs and customers from all over the world. We have invested in new comprehensive PM brazing services, and installed a state-of-the-art helical gear box compaction system as well as a new FZG gear test rig that will help to provide valuable data for design of PM gears.

Other highlights include reaching 100,000 km with the Smart car gearbox and converting from Hiped to sintered gear pairs in the Power of Powder rally team car.

On the material side, we have successfully introduced our highly efficient lubricant system Intralube® E and our new machining enhancing additives. We also have a lot of conversion activities going on in the market for a couple of new products and a new material solution for assembled camshafts is currently being evaluated in an OEM engine.

We are already looking forward to next year’s activities but before that we will close the year by participating in the gear conference CTI Symposium in Berlin. Hope to see you there!

Sincerely,

Eckart Schneider
Marketing Manager PM Components

Adding helical gear compaction capability

Jan 20, 2012

Helical gear compaction tool

A new sophisticated helical gear compaction system from tooling expert Aliver PM Technology, Switzerland that enables compaction of challenging steep helical gear angles has been installed at the Höganäs PoP Centre 800 ton Dorst compaction press. By targeting high load-carrying transmission gears, Höganäs intends to support customers and OEMs on PM gear application development projects and to prove that PM technology is a cost-effective alternative for manufacturing of both external and internal ring gears.

Last year, Höganäs ran several compaction campaigns in the PoP Centre. “In our campaigns we have been simulating real-life helical gear compaction conditions with our own as well as customers’ tooling. From that we have learned a lot about the successful interaction between PM materials, tooling and compaction aspects,” says Eckart Schneider Marketing Manager PM Components.

“We have been able to study and optimize the compressibility of new powder solutions and our new lubricant concepts that allow challenging helical gear compaction jobs to very high densities. By also using our Hipaloy™ powder mix we managed to prove the concept of compacting a helical gear to a single press and sintered density of >7.4 g/cc”.

Close customer cooperations as well as the expertise and contributions of Aliver PM Technology and Dorst Technologies were very important to the successful outcome of these invaluable development activities. “With this unique knowledge, we hope to be able to better promote PM gear solutions within the industry," says Eckart.

Join us at PowderMet 2012 in Nashville, TN

May 21, 2012

Join Höganäs at PM China 2012

Mar 27, 2012

Höganäs is the main sponsor of PM China 2012. Join us in Shanghai on April 24-25 and take a closer look at some of our latest innovations.

Partners reveal innovative EV axle

Jan 20, 2012

A functional model of an innovative transmission concept for electric vehicles was presented at the International CTI Symposium and Exhibition in Berlin.

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