Tungsten plates are metal sheets available in various sizes and widths. After processing, tungsten plates look similar to steel. Another useful form of tungsten is recycled tungsten. A metal sheet and a metal plate can be distinguished from one another based on thickness; a sheet is less than 6mm thick while a plate is thicker than 6mm. After being mined, tungsten ore is crushed, chemically extracted, and placed in a hydrogen furnace to produce pure tungsten powder. From there, it undergoes a series of processes that compress, unite, and shape it into the appropriate form. Read More…
Leading Manufacturers
Leading Edge Metals & Alloys, Inc.
Torrance, CA | 877-455-5362Leading Edge Metals & Alloys offers tungsten products to a number of industries, including aerospace, electronics, magnetic shielding, and medical. We are leading experts in our field and we go out of our way to make sure our customers receive only the very best.
Mi-Tech Tungsten Metals, LLC
Indianapolis, IN | 800-624-1895Our quality tungsten-based metals such as our alloys and composites are the focus of our specialties, and have been for 30 years. Mi-Tech provides tungsten supplies such as tungsten bar, tungsten metal alloys, tungsten metal composites, and tungsten powder of the highest quality. We are a main supplier to electrical device rebuilders & to OEMs. We stock most commonly used sizes & materials.
Metal Associates
Pompton Plains, NJ | 800-838-1978Our company offers a diverse selection of tungsten items. We have highly trained and competent engineers who can successfully create you a metal solution regardless of how big or small. The expertise of our staff is unmatched.
Metalmen Sales Inc.
Long Island City, NY | 800-767-9494Metalmen provides worldwide distribution of all stainless steel. With our wide range of products, we offer expert market advice and complete metalworking as a custom response supplier serving industry.
Tungsten plates are used in the aerospace, construction, and electronic sectors. Tungsten plates can be found in a variety of illumination, vacuum plating, electron-vacuums, and shields in addition to their regular application in furnace building. They are also crucial for the production of parts for the semiconductor and electronic industries.
Production of Tungsten Plates
First, a rubber die sleeve is filled with raw material into a rubber die sleeve. It is made into an opaque solid tungsten slab. The raw material is processed into a solid powdered tungsten plate blank. Then manufacturers use a cold isostatic press to form the blank into a solid plate using a cold isostatic press. The press applies pressure ranging from 300 to 400 MPa. After 8–10 minutes, a solid panel blank molding is created.
Next, the solid plate blank is inserted into an sintering furnace. After heating, formed blank is cooled through water circulation. The produced plate blank is heated for two to three hours at a temperature between 1300 and 1400 degrees Celsius. To complete the production of the huge, single, and heavy tungsten plate, the heated formed plate blank is removed and rolled by a hot rolling machine. A tungsten plate target is compact and with a 99.95% relative density. Finally, the large material tungsten plate is finished after being sliced to the desired size.
Applications of Tungsten Plates
Due to their high melting points and high strengths, tungsten, and its alloys are utilized in a variety of high-temperature applications, such as turbine blades in generators and aircraft engines. High-temperature alloys are also widely used to make parts for tungsten plate furnaces.
Radiation Shield: Tungsten alloys are the best material for radiation protection because it has high density, radiation absorption, a high melting point, and superior corrosion resistance.
X-Ray Target: The most common target material for x-ray generating is tungsten. Due to tungsten's high atomic number, at a given voltage and current, x-ray intensity is increased. The x-ray anode can also become white-hot thanks to its high melting point.
