SUNAIR CO. - Reliability focused pumping solutions and repair services for industry since 1974
SUNAIR CO. - Reliability focused pumping solutions and repair services for industry since 1974
Applications in Metals Processing

Metals are shaped by processes such as casting, forging, flow forming, rolling, extrusion, sintering, metalworking, machining and fabrication. With casting, molten metal is poured into a shaped mould. With forging, a red-hot billet is hammered into shape. With rolling, a billet is passed through successively narrower rollers to create a sheet. With extrusion, a hot and malleable metal is forced under pressure through a die, which shapes it before it cools. With sintering, a powdered metal is heated in a non-oxidizing environment after being compressed into a die. With machining, lathes, milling machines, and drills cut the cold metal to shape. With fabrication, sheets of metal are cut with guillotines or gas cutters and bent into shape.

Cold working processes, where the product’s shape is altered by rolling, fabrication or other processes while the product is cold, can increase the strength of the product by a process called work hardening. Work hardening creates microscopic defects in the metal, which resist further changes of shape.

Typical Applications:

  • Acid Service Pump
  • Caustic Service Pump
  • Waste Sump Pumps
  • Descaling Water Pumps
  • Descale pit Pumps
  • Boiler Feed and Facilities Pumps this will link to the Power Generation page
  • Air Operated Diaphragm Pumps

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