ADDING VALUE 

Run by a management specialized in hard materials, Harcane Industries has been mastering all the steps in the whole value chain of the fabrication of hard materials products by injection molding since near thirty years:
• Feedstock manufacturing • Redesigning • Tooling • Injection molding • Green machining • De-binding (IPA and thermal) • Sintering • Machining • Polishing • Sandblasting • Engraving

As a specialist in full service, meaning controlling the interrelated balance of the trilogy: Material – Process – Tooling, Harcane industries can support specific projects for production lines.

WHERE HARCANE INDUSTRIES ADDS VALUE

Proprietary feedstock:
• All type of powders can be mixed
Low temperature processing:
• Low viscosity, feedstock can be injected in complex shapes at low temperatures
• Lower machine cycle-time results in producing parts more efficiently
Micro-granulate feedstock:
• This process offers high precision (0.5% of the dimension) and a very good surface condition of the injected parts
• Lowers the costs of any further processing, machining and polishing steps
Complex shapes:
• Low viscosity allows more complex shapes and molding cavities
• Further increases production capacity and capabilities
De-binding process: uses temperature instead of acid or water (IPA in some cases)
• Provides ultra-clean parts and safer working environment
• No risk of powder corrosion during the process

HARCANE FEEDSTOCKS ADVANTAGES

• Raw materials from solid partners: ultra-fine powders, nano powders, innovative High Impact powders
• Feedstock manufacturing: portfolio of more than 200 exclusive formulas for almost all inorganic powders
• Injection: low injection cycle
• Green part stage: very good machinability
• Thermal de-binding (IPA possible)
• Near Net Shape – No deformation after sintering
• Lower production costs vs competition

PRODUCTS

Harcane Powder Injection Molding Feedstocks
produced through an optimized process which highly reduces the production costs, lead to very competitive prices and performances.
The injection material exhibits the feedstock properties that made Harcane’s reputation, as:
Low viscosity, which allows to completely fulfill the prints and to perfectly weld the lines. The Harcane feedstock properties offer to inject CIM parts with the same parameters as for plastic injection, which means with a low pressure and short injection cycles. A low viscosity is also required for multiple prints molds – molds until 16 prints are currently set with this feedstock.
Reduced cycle time. With such a short cooling time, the complete cycle time for a 1 cc part, for example, can be brought under 10 seconds. The decreased cycle time combined with a multiple prints mold, places the CIM process as an alternative to pressing processes, while adding the very important advantage of the 3D shaping.
High density and high mechanical properties, the organic materials in Harcane feedstock formulation provide an optimal densification of the green part, resulting in a very high sintered density. The obtained density is relatively 0.01 to 0.02 g/cc higher than obtained by pressing, with a ready-to-press material.
A 100% thermal de-binding material can performed – besides standard solvent de-binding capability – which eases significantly the global production process. According to the volume of the parts and to their wall thickness, the maximum complete cycle time – including the sintering operation – is about 72 hours for small parts to 120 hours for parts with a 4mm section. An equipment adapted to a pressing process with a ready-to-press material can be used for the thermal de-binding of Harcane’s PIM feedstocks.
Oversizing factors compatible with all other feedstock factors, allowing the user to keep their own molds without any modification.

BROCHURES

These two brochures present our standard Oxide Ceramics, however as we can mix whatever powder, please feel free to ask what you need.
All our feedstocks are with thermal only debinding, if needed they can come in an IPA debinding version.
Process data sheets are available upon request.