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Planetary Ball Mill
The Planetary Ball Mill pulverizes and mixes soft, medium-hard to extremely hard, brittle and fibrous materials. Dry and wet grinding can be carried out to achieve high fineness in a short time.

Applications: pulverizing, mixing, homogenizing, colloidal milling, mechanical alloying.
3D Printer
3D printing is a fast way to produce physical model of 3D CAD designs. With the use of 3D scanning technologies, 3D printing allows the replication of real objects without the use of molding techniques which made customized/ personalised design affordable.
Applications: This technology is being use in tissue engineering applications where organs and body parts are built using inkjet techniques, such as a personalised hip replacement.
Standard applications include design visualization, prototyping/CAD, metal casting, architecture, education, geospatial, healthcare, entertainment/retail, etc.
Double-Barrels Powder Injection Molding Machine

This is a 100T double barrel injection moulding machine, capable of moulding a relative large size component and two dissimilar materials. Powder injection moulding is a cost effective manufacturing process for high volume production of complex component with near net-shaped, high precision, and properties similar to that of bar stock.

Applications: Applicable to a wide range of materials such as carbon steels, low alloy steels, stainless steels, low expansion alloys (kovar and invar), tool steels, soft magnetic alloys, super alloys, to conductive materials (copper), and ceramics.
Debinding and Sintering Furnaces

These furnaces are use for ceramics and metal heat treatment, brazing, hardening, annealing, sintering, and debinding in atmosphere, protective gas, or vacuum.

Applications: laboratory research, material testing, heat treatment, melting, annealing, firing, debinding and sintering for ceramics, glass, metals powder.
High-Temperature RTM Injection Unit (280°C)

This unit is used to process and inject thermosetting resins by means of Resin Transfer Molding (RTM). RTM is, in principle, similar to injection moulding of thermoplastics, with the major difference being that a thermoset resin is injected, this not into an empty mould, but into a cavity filled with a fibrous material.

Therefore, RTM offers faster and cheaper production of aerospace-quality parts with high geometrical complexity & very good surface finish, and without requiring an autoclave. Our particular unit allows for the production of parts with a volume of up to approx. 6 litres, and at processing temperatures of max. 280°C.
A lower cost alternative to RTM we also offer vacuum infusion. In this case, the fibres are placed on a single-sided mould, covered with a vacuum bag and subsequently infused with resin. While the mechanical properties are typically somewhat lower than for RTM, vacuum infusion allows the production of very large parts.

Applications:
  1. Control surfaces and components such as wing spars, ribs, fairings, housings, rotor blades, panels
  2. Braided/woven textile composites of complex geometry (e.g. I-beams, trailing arms, turbine vanes, high-pressure ducting in corrosive environment)
  3. Panels and housings for machine and engineering applications
  4. Sports equipment
  5. Medical components (e.g. prostheses, patient positioning structures for imaging applications)
55 Tons Electrical Injection Molding System

This is an electric driven injection molding machine, with 10K localized clean booth facilities for injection molding of precision parts. Electric drive ensures consistent shot to shot results and allows fast molding cycle. Clean booth allows both parts and mold can be contained in a clean environment for medical and optics. The tie-barless allows larger molds to be fitted into the machine.

Applications: Suitable for producing Micro-fluidic parts with micro channels, optical parts and medical parts that required precision.
160 Tons Expansion Compression Injection Molding Machine

An high end injection molding machine equipped with expansion compression technologies that is suitable to produce optical parts with thick wall section. Other functions such as injection compression and closing compression functions allows thin walls to be produced as well.

Applications: Optical components with thick or thin wall. Relatively thick wall section can be achieved.
OpticCentric

This equipment measures optical lens property such as Modulation Transfer Function (MTF).

Applications: The PE industry may benefit from traditional qualitative measurement to quantitative measurement of lens property.
Aida Cold & Warm Forging Press

This mechanical press can be used to form precise bulk and sheet metal components up to a maximum load of 600 ton for both cold & warm forging.

Applications: Cold & warm forging of metal components for medical, aerospace, automotive and electronic industry. Materials such as Aluminum, Magnesium, Titanium, low carbon steel or stainless steel can be forge using this machine.
Liquid Forging Hydraulic Presses (100, 200, 400 ton)
Liquid Forging Hydraulic Press: 50T with 10T Counter Pressure is used to produce complex shape and complicated components.

400-Ton Hydraulic press is used for cold or hot forging of complex shape components as well as liquid forging of complicated components.

Applications: Liquid forging of small components such as heat sinks.

Liquid forging of large and complex components such as wheel hub, powder compaction.

Schimdt Precision Micro Metal Forming Press

With precise stroke movement of up to 1 micron, NC control Servo Press is used to form net shape micro & miniature metal components up to a maximum load of 4 ton.

Applications: Micro (>1mm) or miniature (1-3mm) metal components, e.g. pins, cups, embossed features for the medical, electronics or MEMs industry can be formed by this machine. Materials such as Stainless Steel, Nickel, Copper alloys, Titanium can be formed using this machine.
Spin Forming Machine

The spin forming machine is used for mainly shear forming as well as flow forming of axisymmetrical metal components. With CNC controlled features, rollers are programmed to move in axial or radial directions to form profile or features on a rotating workpiece.

Applications: Typical components that can be formed on this machines are thin wall cylindrical tubes/cups, pulleys, flanges, undercut features & conical products. Materials such as Aluminum, Magnesium, Stainless Steel, Nickel, Copper alloys, Titanium can be formed using this machine. This machine & process is especially suited for forming materials with low ductility.

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Mercury Porosimeter
This equipment characterizes a material’s porosity by applying various levels of pressure to a sample immersed in mercury. The pressure required to intrude mercury into the sample’s pores is inversely proportional to the size of the pores. It has the capability to measure pore diameters from 0.003 to ~300 µm.

Applications: Mercury porosimeter is useful to measure the pore size and pore size distribution of porous materials such as polymeric scaffold, metal foams and ceramics.

Pycnometer

Pycnometer determines materials’ density by precisely measuring their volume.

Applications: This equipment can be use on a wide variety of powders, solids, and slurries.
Cyogenic Mill

The cryogenic mill freezes and pulverizes pellets or grains at liquid nitrogen temperature. It is especially useful to process heat sensitive materials, as it avoids material degradation due to heat that normally occurs as side effect of grinding operation. Cryogenic mill is also beneficial for size reduction of materials that are tough and hard to grind finely without extra cooling.

Applications: This equipment can be used to mill rubber, plastic and pigment grains or pellets into fine powders. Materials to be used in biomedical, pharmaceutical and food industries will benefit from this milling process.

Modeling & Simulation Software for Metal Forming

Simulation software can be used to effectively reduce cost usually spend on trial & errors especially when it comes to designing of expensive dies.

Applications:
DEFORM Software: Used to simulate most metal forming process such as forging, spin forming, stamping & rolling.
ABAQUS: All metal forming processes.