Raw Materials Archives - Sarum Hydraulics

Our top five tricky plating and finishing processes

By John Foster|2018-03-02T16:14:46+00:00July 17th, 2014|Blog|

Do you need to anodise, plate or paint your vulnerable metal components? Sarum Hydraulics shares its expertise, with 5 finishing processes you need to be extra careful with: 1. Any component or process where an air bubble inevitably lodges up inside. You obviously can't process it properly. Total disaster! 2. Anodising. When you design it, [...]

Designing more and more in aluminium – could the price suddenly double and leave all of us with problems?

By John Foster|2018-03-02T16:14:56+00:00July 3rd, 2014|Blog|

There are good reasons for using aluminium. Mass is the big driver. The list of pluses goes on and on and you could select the benefits of extrusion, ability to produce deep and optimally profiled sections, advances in die casting, advances in metal forming, CNC machining advances, laser and water jet cutting and solid modelling [...]