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PRODUCT OBTAINED

APPLICATIONS

TECHNICAL ATTRIBUTES AND BENEFITS

1. Tantalum carbide

Cutting tools for industry and medicine.

2. Lithium tantalate.

Surface acoustic wave (SAW), filters in mobile phones, high-fidelity sound equipment and televisions.

Clearer audio electronic wave signal and sharper video output.

3. Tantalum oxide

Glasses lenses.

Digital cameras and mobile phones.

High level of refraction.

X-ray film.

Inkjet printers.

They can be thinner and smaller.

X-ray exposure is reduced and image quality is improved.

Resistant.

4. Tantalum powder: Tantalum capacitors for electronic circuits

Medical devices: hearing aids and pacemakers.

Automotive components: ABS, airbag, engine management, GPS.

Electronic devices: Computers, mobile phones, video cameras.

Other equipment: DVD, flat screen televisions, video game consoles, battery chargers, electric rectifiers, telephone antennas, oil well probes.

The capacitors have characteristics of high reliability and low failure rate, can withstand temperature ranges between 55 to + 200 ° C, are highly resistant to strong vibrations, small in size and with great electrical storage capacity.

5. Tantalum in sheets, ingots and tantalum plates

Chemical process equipment: lining, tanks, valves.

Glass-like performance corrosion resistance.

Cathodic protection systems for steel structures in bridges, water tanks etc.

Corrosion resistant fasteners: screws, nuts, bolts.

Rows in synthetic textile manufacturing.

6. Tantalum in sheets, plates, bars, wire cable

Human prosthetics: Hip joints, plates, skull, mesh to repair bone removed after cancer damage, suture clips, blood vessel stents.

Attack by body fluids is non-existent.

Highly biocompatible.

High temperature furnace linings.

Melting point is 2996 ° C, in a protective atmosphere or high vacuum.

7. Tantalum in ingots

Whites of Spray.

Applications of thin tantalum coatings, tantalum oxide, or semiconductor nitride coatings to prevent copper migration.

High temperature alloys for air and ground based turbines, disk motors, blades and vanes.

Alloy compositions containing 311% resistance to tantalum supply to corrosion by hot gases, allow for higher operating temperatures and therefore fuel economy and efficiency.

Rocket nozzles.

Computer hard drives or portable drives.

An alloy containing 6% tantalum has memory properties.

Explosive shell formation for TOW 2 missiles.

Balance of density and conformability that allows a lighter and more efficient system.