Integrating the physics of new processes with the engineering reality of the latest manufacturing technology

About the Company

Phoenix Scientific Industries (PSI) Limited designs, manufactures and installs capital equipment, with project values generally falling in the range £50k to £2M and involving small R&D systems up to turnkey production plant. PSI is best known for its activities in gas atomization for the production of metal powders and in particular, close-coupled atomization for very fine powder manufacture.

Over the last two 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 atomization and other rapid solidification techniques. Consequently, the Company has accumulated a large knowledge base on the behaviour and handling of materials in the solid, liquid and vapour phases.

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 atomization” to the market; enabling clients to further increase yields of the desirable ultrafine grades of powder.

Many of PSI’s installations and projects are overseas, reflecting the international nature of the business; sales and service activities are supported by a network of representative companies around the globe.