About Hot Isostatic Pressing

Every week a typical Bodycote hot isostatic pressing plant will process many tons of titanium, aluminium, steel and superalloy castings, removing porosity and uprating the performance of parts such as turbine blades, medical implants and turbochargers.

When a project requires advanced materials technology, working with Bodycote hot isostatic pressing could provide the ideal development and production route, allowing the engineer to optimise conventionally formed parts and also to design components unobtainable by other means. Bodycote hot isostatic pressing research specialists are experienced in working with customers to develop novel materials and applications.

With the largest operational capacity in the Western world, and a wide variety of sizes of equipment, Bodycote hot isostatic pressing is able to accommodate large volumes of small product as economically as large individual components.

• Bodycote hot isostatic pressing provides a technical service that transforms both product performance and manufacturing economics.
• High value adding treatments for unconventional materials, enabling customers to achieve unique combinations of design and manufacture to open up new applications and markets.
• When combined with powder metallurgy or investment casting, hot isostatic pressing can provide faster routes to market, with both material and manufacturing savings.

Bodycote’s hot isostatic pressing services include:

Densification:
• Alloy castings
• Ceramics
• Densal®/Densal® II
• Glass
• Infra-red windows
• Medical implants
• Superalloy castings
• Titanium castings
• Tungsten carbide

Powder Metallurgy:
• Bi-metallic materials
• Complex PM assemblies
• High speed steel / Cold work steel/PM steels
• Near-net shape (NNS) components
• Sputtering targets

Composites:
• Diamond tools
• Diffusion bonding
• HIP brazing
• Novel materials