Phoenix Scientific Industries Ltd

Phoenix Scientific Industries (PSI) Limited designs, manufactures and installs capital equipment involving small R&D systems up to high throughput turnkey production plant. PSI is best known for its activities in gas atomisation for the production of metal powders and in particular, close-coupled atomisation for very fine powder manufacture with the inclusion of unique cold crucible technology, designed for reactive melts. Over the last three decades, PSI has developed technologies and processes involving rapidly-quenched, amorphous and microcrystalline structures in metals and ceramics. Consequently, expertise has also been developed in the fields of melt spinning, wire casting and vapour deposition techniques (CVD, CVI, PVD) and many variations of special atmosphere furnaces. Heating techniques employed in the various processes involving metal melting and evaporation include induction, resistance, electron beam, arc and plasma and the company’s expertise covers a gas pressure range of fifteen decades from its involvement in Ultra High Vacuum equipment through to the development of Hot Isostatic Pressing equipment operating at pressures of 2000 bar. PSI also offers a powder production service on a toll-basis and has produced hundreds of novel alloy compositions by atomisation and other rapid solidification techniques. To maintain its technology at the forefront of advanced materials processing, the company complements its internal R&D activities with both UK and European-funded Programs. For example, a SMART-funded program led to the successful introduction of “hot gas atomisation” to the market; enabling clients to further increase yields of the desirable ultra fine grades of powder. PSI has a global installation base of rapid solidification systems supporting the AM, SLM, HIP and solar industries; sales and service activities are supported by a network of representative companies around the globe.