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pennsylvania products cutting tools wire drawing dies surface coatings website www.allomet.com the allomet corporation is a privately owned company located in north huntingdon pennsylvania that produces a line of patented powdered metal products known as eternaloy tough coated hard powders tchp . contents 1 history 2 tough coated hard powders tchp 2.1 overview 2.2 characteristics 2.3 current tchp grades 3 product applications 4 awards 5 references 6 external links history edit the allomet corporation formerly enduraloy was founded in savannah ga in 1996 and incorporated in march 1998 . in november 2002 allomet corporation moved its headquarters and manufacturing facilities from savannah ga to its current location a 10 acre site in north huntingdon township pennsylvania . tough coated hard powders tchp edit overview edit the development of tchp materials is rooted in the cemented carbide industry and the majority of current tchp materials encapsulate a ceramic or superhard core particle into a cemented carbide shell . thus tchp material applications are closely related to the typical wear applications of standard cemented carbides . characteristics edit tchp s are produced through a proprietary 1 powdered metal processing technology which has the ability to uniformly coat 2 50 micrometer sized hard core refractory particles 2 of any shape spherical block random etc. with 50 500 nanometer thin tough coatings . these core particles are first coated with an intermediate encapsulating layer of tungsten carbide wc followed by an outer encapsulating binder layer of cobalt co or nickel ni giving the powder its double shelled structure . 3 when sintered or applied using thermal spray methods the tough outer layers chemically bond forming a metal matrix in the sintered article or deposited coating this hybrid material combines the high strength heat resistance and toughness of cemented carbides with the chemical and abrasion wear resistance of the harder core particles . 4 current tchp grades edit tchp s are currently being produced and sold in five main product categories shown below tchp grade core particle wc shell binder bl cbn yes co ni none dl diamond yes co ni none nl al2o3 yes co ni sl sic yes none tl ti c n yes co ni product applications edit machine tools 5 inserts end mills drills etc. wire drawing dies oil and gas drilling tools industrial valve components linings of pipes for transporting abrasive and corrosive materials linings of containers for abrasive and corrosive materials automotive engine components bearings turbine components aircraft components awards edit wire and cable technology top products of 2013 award 6 wire association international silver certificate award in the general division for 2013 a technical paper entitled improved wire quality with advanced tchp dies wire and cable technology top products of 2009 award 7 references edit us patent 6 372 346 richard edmund toth for use in cutting and forming tools published 2002 04 16 issued yyyy mm dd complex shapes and hard coated powders get over limit factors . metal powder report . elsevier . 60 32 37 . january 2005 . doi 10.1016 s0026 0657 05 00322 x. bansal narottam may 2009 . processing and properties of advanced ceramics and composites . hoboken nj wiley . pp. 249 254 . isbn 978 0 470 40845 2 . cunningham daniel march 2013 . improved wire quality with advanced tchp dies . wire journal international . a new shift in tool performance . manufacturing engineering . elsevier . november 1 2002 . metallurgical powders for wire dies requiring high wear resistance . wire and cable technology international . january 2014 . material for making long life dies . wire and cable technology international . january 2010 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title allomet corporation & oldid 743211761 categories companies based in westmoreland county pennsylvaniamanufacturing companies based in pennsylvaniaamerican 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