Capstan California wins award for porous bronze filter.

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During 2012 Powder Metallurgy Design Excellence Awards Competition, Capstan California and its customer Sperry Product Innovation Inc. of Woburn, MA, won award of distinction in industrial motors/controls and hydraulics category for a porous bronze filter used in a solvent pumping purification system. Filter is gravity sintered to density of 5.1-5.2 g/cm³. Special mold design eliminates most secondary operations on the part, except for deburring the edge.



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Outstanding Powder Metallurgy Parts Acknowledged



Capstan California and its customer Sperry Product Innovation Inc., Woburn, Mass., won the award of distinction in the industrial motors/controls & hydraulics category for a porous bronze filter used in a solvent pumping purification system. The filter is gravity sintered to a density of 5.1 to 5.2 g/cm3. The special mold design eliminates most secondary operations on the part, except for deburring the edge. It also allows step grooves to be molded into the part.

Winners of the 2012 Powder Metallurgy Design Excellence Awards Competition, sponsored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation (an international trade association for the metal powder producing and consuming industries), were announced at PowderMet2012, the International Conference on Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials. Receiving grand prizes and awards of distinction, the winning parts are outstanding examples of PM's precision, performance, complexity, economy, innovation, and sustainability. The winning parts show how customers from around the world are taking advantage of PM's remarkable design advantages.

PM is an automated metalworking process that forms metal powders into precision components used in applications such as auto engines and transmissions, hardware, industrial machinery, sporting goods, defense, and firearms. More than 800 million pounds of PM parts are made annually in North America.

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