Products Overview
STAAR Elements specializes in sourcing, fabricating, and delivering high-purity metals, alloys, powders, and rare earth elements tailored to your specific requirements. With a diverse range of fabrication techniques and processing methods, we ensure high-quality materials that meet the exact needs of industries such as aerospace, semiconductor, defense, and advanced manufacturing.
Fabrication (Metals and Alloys)
STAAR Elements offers a range of advanced fabrication techniques for metals and alloys, ensuring precision, high quality, and customizable material properties. Our expertise spans conventional manufacturing methods to modern additive manufacturing processes, catering to industries such as aerospace, automotive, energy, and biomedical applications.
Conventional Fabrication Methods:
Melting & Casting:
- Vacuum Induction Melting (VIM): Ideal for producing high-purity metals and alloys.
- Arc Melting: Used for rapid alloying and refining of metals.
- Die Casting: Produces intricate shapes with excellent surface finish.
- Centrifugal Casting: Best suited for cylindrical components requiring high structural integrity.
Machining:
- CNC Machining: Ensures precise component fabrication.
- Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM): Used for intricate geometries and hard materials.
- Laser & Waterjet Cutting: Provides high accuracy with minimal material waste.
Forming & Powder Metallurgy:
- Rolling & Forging: Enhances material strength and mechanical properties.
- Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP): Improves density and eliminates porosity in materials.
- Metal Injection Molding (MIM): Ideal for small, complex parts with high precision.
- Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS): Facilitates rapid consolidation of powders into fully dense materials.