In recent years,with the development of powder metallurgy technology,various industries manufacturing technology has been promoted grately.Copper has good thermal and electrical conductivity properties and excellent corrosion resistance and mechanical properties,so copper material is very easy to be processed to shape complex structures. Thus copper material plays an important role in powder metallurgy production field.
Copper material is very easy to be combined with other elements and become alloy material,so it could be used widely to produce complex structure forging parts and casting parts and powder metallurgy parts.For example,Copper and Nickel alloy material has good corrosion resistance against seawater.
On powder metallurgy field,pure copper powder could be used to produce electronic and thermal conductivity parts.Sn,Zine,Nickel or Iron containing copper alloy material is widely used to produce automobile parts,tools and electronic parts and so on.The most important application technology of copper powder is powder metallurgy,so self-lubricating bearings and filters are the typical applications of copper powder on powder metallurgy field.Of course,the porosity should be controlled well,otherwise,the excellent self-lubricating effect wouldn't be realized.So copper material would get more and more opportunities to show on powder metallurgy field and more and more parts would be produced by copper material as its good properties.
