As the consumer electronics industry works to develop smaller, lighter
devices that perform better and have ever-increasing capabilities,
engineers need materials that enable – and even enhance – their
next-generation designs. Materion Brush Performance Alloys, a Materion
Corporation (NYSE:MTRN) business, is focused on meeting emerging
electronics needs, and recently developed three new products for its
BrushForm®158 product line (BF TM12, BF TM04 and BF TM06) specifically
for next-generation electronics devices.
These new copper-nickel-tin alloys are designed to provide optimal
strength in very thin gauges, making them ideal for use in devices such
as smartphones, tablets and cameras.
The alloys offer higher strength than other copper alloys, but do not
contain beryllium, so can be used when a beryllium-free alloy is
desired. The materials are RoHS compliant and infinitely recyclable.
BrushForm®158 TM12 offers higher strength in
thinner foil gauges
As electronic devices become smaller, design engineers face greater
challenges to package new technologies and capabilities with less space
for components. Designed specifically to meet increased strength
requirements for voice coil motor and optical image stabilizing
applications in smartphones, BF158 TM12 offers substantially higher
strength in foil gauges as thin as .001” (.025 mm), which means greater
design flexibility.
The alloy out performs copper beryllium and copper titanium in
applications with high strength/high temperature requirements – and has
good corrosion resistance which is becoming increasingly important as
companies develop water-resistant devices.
BrushForm TM04 and TM06 offers optimal high
strength/formability combination
BF TM04 and TM06 have been designed to provide optimal formability, as
well as high strength, in spring applications and signal connectors.
These new materials are ideal for complicated designs that require
better formability. They perform better in higher temperature
applications, and resist corrosion better than other copper alloys. TM04
and TM06 are ideal replacements for copper titanium.
Equipment and process upgrades
Materion invested $1.6 million in process and equipment upgrades at its
Reading, Pennsylvania facility to develop the new BrushForm products.
In addition to rolling copper-based alloys to a thickness of less than
.001" (.025mm), the upgrades will net thickness tolerance improvements
of up to 50 percent, especially in the thinner gauge strip products +1
to .000060 (+1 to .0015mm).
“We are constantly looking ahead to align our product and service
portfolios with the latest market and technology trends, so that we are
able to provide our customers with an even broader scope of products and
services,” states Jason Maher, Marketing Director for Strip, Rod and
Wire at Materion Brush Performance Alloys. “Adding these new forms to
our BrushForm family of alloys will enable design engineers to go even
further in their push to meet consumer demands for smaller, better
devices.”
Materion Brush Performance Alloys, headquartered in Mayfield Heights,
Ohio, is a unit of Materion Brush Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of
Materion Corporation. Through its subsidiaries, Materion supplies
worldwide markets with alloy products, beryllium products, electronic
products, precious metal products, and engineered material systems.
Around the world, the company's engineered materials can be found in
technically demanding end-use products within the telecommunications and
computer, automotive electronics, appliance, industrial components,
plastics tooling, optical media, oil and gas, aerospace and defense, and
off-highway and mining equipment markets. Visit www.Materion.com
for additional information.
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