SAS France

<p>SAS France manufactures series-production sintered technical components and self-lubricating bearings to customer drawings and functional specifications.</p><ul><li><b>Core Manufacturing Steps:</b> Automated uniaxial powder pressing along the ejection axis with cycle times of a few seconds, followed by sintering in continuous mesh-belt furnaces with controlled atmospheres to achieve quality tolerance grade 10.</li><li><b>Materials Processed:</b> Sintered iron, carbon steels, alloyed steels, Soft Magnetic Composites (SMC), sintered bronze, and electrolytic copper, achieving sintered densities ranging from 5.6 to 7.1 g/cm³.</li><li><b>Product Families:</b><ul><li><i>Toothed Components:</i> Sintered gears, pinions, and motion-transmission parts with complex frontal teeth formed directly without machining.</li><li><i>Miscellaneous Mechanical Parts:</i> Cams, levers, flanges, and customized structural components for mechanical assemblies.</li><li><i>Bearings & Bushings:</i> Self-lubricating cylindrical bearings, flanged bushings, and spherical thrust washers for electric motors and articulated joints.</li></ul></li><li><b>Secondary Finishing Operations:</b> Post-sinter sizing/calibration for tight dimensional accuracy, vacuum oil impregnation with custom lubricants, thermal treatments (case hardening, carbonitriding, quenching), and anti-corrosion surface treatments (zinc plating, nickel plating, Geomet coating).</li></ul>