Products
Markets and Applications
Heat and Corrosion Resistant materials are used in a wide range of industrial applications. The more common applications are listed below but clients can talk to our team about precise requirements.
Aerospace Engineering
Applications include - commercial jet engines, supersonic military aircraft, helicopters and space exploration programmes. Chosen for their strength at high temperatures,INCONEL®, NIMONIC®, INCOLOY®and UDIMET®alloys are used in civil and military engines from combustors, through power turbines to exhaust systems. NILO® alloys are ideally suited to tooling for the production of composites.
Automotive Engineering
New applications for the Incoloy, INCONEL® and NIMONIC® alloys have been being created by pollution control legislation worldwide. Other uses include systems valves, ignition equipment, sensors, electronic switch gear and safety devices.
The Chemical & Process Industries
The most long term tried and tested applications for nickel alloys where corrosion-resistance in process applications has become a standard industry demand. The uses range from vessels, piping and heat exchangers, to pumps and valves and are principally used in the wrought forms in pure Nickel and INCOLOY®, INCONEL® and MONEL® and Hastelloy grades.
Thermal Processing and Heat Treatment
High-temperature strength and resistance to corrosion by furnace atmosphere makes INCOLOY®, INCONEL® and NIMONIC® alloys particularly suited to furnace components such as radiant tubes,muffles, retorts, belts and hearths. These alloys are also ideal for the jigs and carriers that support the work through the heat-treatment processes. KOTHERM® and NIOTHERM ® alloy wires and INCOTHERM ® alloy seamless tubing are used for thermocouples.
Electronics & Telecomunications
The physical properties of the pure nickel grades and nickel-iron alloys are ideal in a range of applications from precision components to glass/ metal seals, magnetic shields and integrated circuits.
Marine Engineering
Resistance to seawater corrosion in marine and submarine applications makes MONEL® alloy 400 ideal for offshore platforms and in power and process plants using sea water as a coolant.
Oil & Gas Extraction Industries
INCONEL®, INCOLOY®and MONEL® alloys are suited to a range of on-land and offshore applications from downhole tubulars and tools, to well-head hardware and processing equipment, to flare booms. Some are particularly useful for sour wells operating at high temperatures which create major operating problems.
Power Generation
The corrosion-resistance and high-temperature strength of INCONEL®, INCOLOY®, NIMONIC®and UDIMET®are essential in all areas from land-based gas turbines to feedwater and superheater tubing in coal and oil-fired utilities. Industry specific products are also employed in solar engineering and nuclear fission development programs
Petrochemical Processing
The predictably reliable performance of high-temperature corrosion resistant INCOLOY® and Hastelloy INCONEL® makes them ideal for use in vessels, reactors, heat-exchangers, pyrolysis tubing, pigtails, headers and transfe piping.
Pollution Control & Waste Processing
The highest known performance from metallic materials working in aggressively corrosive environments is crucial in this area to help meet new standards for clean-up and conservation. Applications include stack linings, scrubbers, boiler tubing and heat exchangers.
Electrical Resistance Heating
Uses for alloys of RESISTOHM® and BRIGHTRAY® alloys from industrial furnaces to household ranges, water heaters and toasters. These materials are particularly well suited to wire ribbon and strip heating elements. INCOLOY® and INCONEL® alloys are used in the form of seam-weld tubing for element sheathing. Some alloys are used for starter and traction resistors in locomotives and other heavy engineering applications
Welding
Our Welding Products Company has the INCO-WELD®, INCO-CORED®and NI-ROD® trademarks. It produces a variety of products including coated electrodes, filler metals and flux-cored filler wires, weldstrip and fluxes for joining nickel alloys, dissimilar metals, high-performance steels, and cast irons
