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Hyperion Materials & Technologies (sweden) Ab

Annika Kauppi

Ulf Jutterström

Gerold Weinl

Malin Martensson

Rui Shao

Torbjorn Selinder

Malin MÅRTENSSON

Torbjörn Selinder

A cBN material and a method of making a cBN material, the method including the steps of providing a powder mixture comprising cBN grains, aluminum and a Ti(CxNyOz)a powder, subjecting the powder mixture to a milling to form a powder blend, subjecting the powder blend to a forming operation to form a green body, subjecting the green body to a pre-sintering step, at a temperature between 650 to 950&#xb0; C., to form a pre-sintered body, and subjecting the pre-sintered body to a HPHT operation to form the cBN material. For the Ti(CxNyOz)a powder, 0.05&#x2264;z&#x2264;0.4. In addition, a cBN material includes cBN grains, an Al2O3 phase, a binder phase of TiC, TiN and/or TiCN, W and Co, whereby a quotient Q is &#x3c;0.25 of the cBN material.

Method of making a cBN material

The present invention relates to a method of making a ready-to-press agglomerated powder mixture by wet milling a powder mixture containing binder and spray drying said slurry to an agglomerated powder useful for making cutting tools for metal machining, tools for rock drilling and wear parts. If the binder is a baroplastic polymer having a pressure induced transformation from hard to soft well developed agglomerates with good flow properties and good plasticity are obtained. The hard property of the binder is used at normal pressures, during handling of the spray-dried powder and in the green body, whereas the softer properties are used at higher pressures during the pressing of the material when the pressure exceeds from about 10 to about 50 MPa.

Method of making cemented carbide or cermet agglomerated powder mixtures

The present invention relates to a method of making an agglomerated powder mixture by wet milling a powder mixture containing hard constituent powder(s) based on carbides of Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo and/or W and greater than about 15 wt-% binder phase powder(s) of Co and/or Ni as well as pressing agents and spray drying said slurry. By adding to said powder mixture before milling in addition from about 0.05 to about 0.50 wt-% of a complex forming and/or pH-decreasing/increasing additive such as triethanolamine, hydroxides or acids and a thickener in an amount of from about 0.01 to about 0.10 wt-% agglomerates with excellent flow properties are obtained.

Method of making agglomerated cemented carbide powder mixtures

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