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What is liquid metal?
The scientific name of liquid metal, amorphous alloy, is a structure with no crystal grains and no grain boundaries formed when the alloy is cooled extremely quickly when the alloy is solidified, and the atoms are not arranged in time. It has high hardness, high strength, corrosion resistance, and scratch resistance. , And can save a lot of machining costs.
SHCS Amorphous Material Technology Co., Ltd. is a company specializing in the research and development, production and manufacturing of bulk amorphous alloys (also called bulk metallic glass or liquid metal, abbreviated as: BMG: Bulk Metal Glass) material formulation & molding equipment and processing technology. A high-tech company with global sales, is a subsidiary of SHFC High-tech Group.
Founded in November 1999, SHFC is China's leading and world-leading professional manufacturer of metal injection molding ("MIM") and ceramic injection molding ("CIM") products. At present, the company has large-scale main production equipment, output value, revenue and production capacity, which are in the leading position in the domestic industry, and it is also in the leading position in the international MIM & CIM industry.
Although SHCS has not been established for a long time, it has strong scientific research strength and numerous customer resources, relying on the industry position of its parent company Fuchi Hi-Tech.
SHCS has two major advantages. One is that the parent company SHFC has a wealth of customer resources. At the same time, it coincides with the strategic positioning of SHFC defined in the near-net forming and continuous deepening; the other is that it can continue to use SHFC's existing product processing and mold manufacturing. Relevant equipment is guaranteed in terms of output value and production capacity. At the same time, SHFC's existing testing equipment with complete scale and first-class performance can be used, which plays an important role in the development of liquid metal subsequent materials, process verification and quality assurance in the mass production process. "
At present, SHCS has laid out a full set of production lines for liquid metal mobile phone middle frame appearance parts, from mold design and manufacturing, master alloy smelting, full vacuum die-casting, secondary processing to surface polishing, etc., including product inspections are all available in the factory Completed and built a number of confidential workshops, which well ensured the confidentiality requirements during the development of new products.
In addition, SHCS plans to replicate a full set of production lines for multiple liquid metal products in the next six months to ensure production capacity during mass production. At the same time, it also stated that it can complete the production capacity of more than 40 die-casting equipment and supporting processes within three months. expansion. At present, many mainstream manufacturers in the industry are negotiating with SHCS, hoping to get the first cup of technological development.
As one of the high-performance materials leading the future high-tech competition, liquid metal has important application prospects in the fields of medicine, consumer electronics, aerospace, biomedicine, and precision machinery.
"Liquid metal is far from being competitive in the industry, but there are many countries and companies that pay attention to liquid metal. With the application of stainless steel mobile phone frames, it will bring a very good development opportunity for liquid metal." There will be different levels of explosion in the consumer electronics market. Compared with stainless steel, titanium alloy, and aluminum alloy, it has the characteristics of strong hardness and rich color. "Consumer electronics have the highest requirements for appearance, and the recently pursued high-gloss effect is very compatible with liquid metal. The texture after mirror polishing is also very similar to ceramics, as warm and moist as jade."
Since the beginning of this year, SHCS has made a huge breakthrough in appearance and surface treatment.
Products
Amorphous alloy
Liquid metal has excellent strength, high hardness, and net shaping capability. Liquid metal can be widely used in wearable products, SIM card cover, hinge and other fields.
Consumer Electronics
After more than 20 years of production and operation, It has a mature 3C production chain and molding technology, the main consumer products are mobile phone accessories, camera parts and LED accessories, etc.
Notebook parts
With the continuous improvement of production capacity in Eontec, in the notebook project has also made great progress. We provide thin-walled, lightweight, anti-collided solution. The thinnest wall thickness can meet 0.45mm.
Automotive Parts
The company is good at building structural parts with tight tolerances. This is the main reason that our auto customers (mainly in Europe and United States) like to work with us. The typical big part — car door frame, is produced in 4000T die casting machine which is one of the world's biggest die casting machine. We are able to control the flatness and tight tolerances even though the part is as thin as 2mm.
