PILOT PLANT OF POWDER METALLURGY INSTITUTE

         The total employment of the pilot plant consists of 6 engineers and 26 workers of main professions.

         The production space makes 2730 m². The volume of production in 2004 was 112 tons of products from powders of iron, non-ferrous metals and composite materials

• area of charge preparation;
• area of presses;
• area of sintering;
• thermal area;
• mechanic area.

AREA OF CHARGE PREPARATION          
This part of pilot plant occupies 216 m² and has the next equipment

• arm mixers - 3.
• vibration sieve - 2.
• hammer mill - 1.
• two cone mixer - 1.

AREA OF SINTERING occupies 745m² and has the next equipment

• conveyor-type furnace SKZ 6.95.1,2/11.5 -I1, working tem-perature up to 1150^oC - 1
• shaft furnace, working temperature up to 1000^oC - 2
• sintering line LS-1 for sintering friction disks, working temperature up to 1000^oC - 1

AREA OF PRESSES occupies 847m² and has the next equipment

• automatic presses (of an effort from 12 to 100t.) - 6
• hydraulic presses (of an effort from 250 to 630t.) - 3
• stamping presses (of an effort from 160 to 1600t.) - 4

MECHANIC AREA occupies 821 m² and has the next equipment:

• lathes - 4;
• milling machines - 2;
• coordinate-boring machine - 1;
• plane-round grinding machines - 8;
• electric-erosion machines - 2;
• half-finished products manufacturing machines - 2.

THERMAL AREA has two furnaces;

SNO 4,8.2/, 5/13 and SNO 3,6.2 -10

and equipment of laboratories as follows:

• conveyor-type furnaces Block B2M3 and SKZ 4.20
• vacuum furnace SNV 3,6/2000

Structural and tribotechnical products on the base of iron, copper, graphite, tin powders being produced by the pilot plant

• bearings of sliding ( bearing shells and bushings) of the types "iron-graphite" and "bronze -graphite" of differ-ent types and sizes;
• friction disks;
• structural parts from iron powder and alloyed steel of a relatively complex form;
• magnet hard materials from barium and strontium ferrites;
• electrotechnical products on the base of copper powders (commutator billets, contacts etc);
• magnet soft ferrites;
• equipment to manufacture products from powders.