Silicon Carbide – Reaction Bonded
Reaction Bonded SiC has the lowest cost production technique with a course grain. It provides somewhat lower hardness and use temperature, but higher thermal conductivity. Direct Sintered SiC is better grade than Reaction Bonded and is commonly specified for high temperature work. CVD SiC is a face centered cubic, polycrystalline form produced ...
Macor® (Corning Glass)
Macor® is a great compromise material when contemplating the need for true ceramics. This trademarked material is a product of Corning Glass Company that was formulated to provide features of a silica glass, but also be readily machinable. Solid white, this mica glass ceramic material is made up of roughly 46% silica, 17% MgO, 16% Al 2 O 3, 10 ...
Advanced Sapphire Wafer Carriers Manufacturing
INSACO Offers Wafer Carriers With or Without Multiple Holes. INSACO, Inc has become recognized as a worldwide leader in custom machined ceramic and sapphire parts for the semiconductor industry.Through this experience, INSACO has perfected the ability to produce sapphire wafer carriers with or without multiple holes for GaAs, Indium …
Precision Piston Sleeve Assemblies
T hese pieces represent a large part of our business we developed by learning how to achieve the very tight diameters, and cylindricities needed for these applications. With piston/sleeve clearances down to .00004″, pumping is possible without use of flexible seals. Applications include cryogenic pumping and precision metering.
Industrial Sapphire Production & Machining
Sapphire is the single crystal form of Aluminum Oxide. Pure Sapphire is inherently clear as glass and once machined and polished is therefore a great choice where transparency is needed in high temperature and wear environments. Sapphire is an anisotropic, rhombohedral crystal form of Aluminum Oxide. Anisotropic single crystal materials exhibit ...
Glass & Quartz Solutions for Commercial Applications
Glasses are non-crystalline, amorphous solids that are usually transparent. They can be roughly formed via thermal methods. All material and optical properties are affected by a variety of alloying materials so many specific types of glass have been created for specific advantages. All glasses feature low thermal conductivity with generally low ...
Expert Industrial Sapphire Machining Services for Defense
Defense and Aerospace. I NSACO provides sapphire machining and polishing services for sapphire tubes for infrared countermeasures (IRCM) for military and VIP aircraft. High accuracy ceramic gyroscopic components and large ceramic composites used for guidance of various aerospace applications. INSACO is ITAR compliant and DDTC registered.
Tetragonal Zirconia Polycrystal (TZP)
Zirconia Yttria blends of approximately 3% are called tetragonal zirconia polycrystal or TZP, and have the finest grain size.These grades of Zirconia exhibit the highest toughness at room temperature, because they are nearly tetragonal, but this degrades severely between 200 and 500°C as these irreversible crystal transformations also cause …
Demonstrations
Comparing Zirconia Alumina With Alumina Oxide; High Precision Ceramic Component Example; Metalized Sapphire Window Example; Precision Optical Quartz Example; …
Contact
INSACO Sales Team; INSACO Brochure; Standard Quotation Terms and Provisions; Robotics / Automation; Quality Control & Metrology; Employment Opportunities; Trade Shows; Materials Materials. Sapphire; Aluminas Aluminas. Alumina 94%; Alumina 99.5%; Alumina 99.9%; Zirconia Toughened Alumina (ZTA) Carbides Carbides. Boron Carbide; …
Metalized Sapphire Windows Expertise Case Study
P roblem: A manufacturer of medical endoscopes needed metalized sapphire windows with extremely smooth optically polished faces to allow for hermetic sealing into a Nickel 200 tube that was brazed to the sapphire. Solution: INSACO recommended a unique manufacturing process at INSACO which would improve the overall quality of the …
Advanced Machining and Polishing Applications
Comparing Zirconia Alumina With Alumina Oxide; High Precision Ceramic Component Example; Metalized Sapphire Window Example; Precision Optical Quartz Example; …
Solar Concentrator with Optical Quartz Case Study
Zirconia Replacement Example. News & Events ... INSACO's expertise in fabricating to extreme tight tolerances (without bias to a particular material) made the choice simple. Result: NASA selected a special grade of fused silica and contracted with INSACO for the precision machining. Specifications for the complex polish and edge radii, as ...
Precision Silicon Carbide Component Solutions Case Study
Problem: A customer pioneering in the life sciences industry contacted INSACO for a quote on Aluminum Nitride machining for their developmental part requiring excellent hardness and good thermal conductivity.However, they weren't sure the Aluminum Nitride was the most efficient choice. Solution: Research by INSACO sales engineers led to a better …
Our History
INSACO In 1947, Joseph W. Haines purchased a part-interest in Industrial Sapphire Specialties, a company located in Flushing, NY, making sapphire phonograph needles for 78 rpm records. A year later, he bought the entire company and moved it to a factory on Juniper Street in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. That same year his younger brother, Robert …
Composites
Ceramic Matrix Composites. C eramic Matrix Composites (CMC's) comprise a ceramic matrix reinforced by a refractory fiber such as silicon carbide, alumina or carbon. More readily available CMC's today include alumina or zirconia as the base with silicon carbide fibers that can be designed as either short whiskers, or longer filaments.
Precision Machining and Polishing Services
Comparing Zirconia Alumina With Alumina Oxide; High Precision Ceramic Component Example; Metalized Sapphire Window Example; Precision Optical Quartz Example; …
Quality Control in Precision Machining
Quality Control & Metrology. I NSACO has world-class metrology equipment to assure the part is "in spec" every time. Our QC equipment includes: contact and non-contact profilometers, CMM's that precisely document dimensions and profiles of complex parts, interferometers to measure flatness and non-contact visual measuring systems, to name ...
High Precision Ceramics Component Manufacturing Case Study
Problem: A cutting edge developer of scientific instrumentation was sourcing a small diameter ceramic bobbin requiring concentricity to three microns on a tiny axial bore.Although high electrical and wear resistance were required, there was indecision over specifying YTZP zirconia or 99+ alumina. Solution: With INSACO's many years of …
Trade Shows
Insaco will be exhibiting or attending the following shows: Design2Part – Uncasville, CT. Mohegan Sun Exposition Center - Uncasville, CT. Wed 04/24/2024 to Thu 04/25/2024. Region's Largest Design & Contract Manufacturing Trade Show April 24 & 25, 2024 Register here. Read More. CS Mantech – Tuscon, AZ.
Precision Zirconia Solutions
Result: Because of many years experience machining sapphire as well as YTZP, INSACO was able to provide both materials. The precision machining required to generate useful gear profiles in sapphire was challenging, but the result allowed our customer to proceed confidently with technical trials. YTZP zirconia, being more robust, may still be ...
Get Your Materials Machining Quote Today
1365 Canary Rd. Quakertown, PA 18951. Telephone. 215.536.3500. Fax. None. Email. sales@insaco. Take the first step towards precision-engineered solutions for your project. Our expertise covers a wide range of advanced materials.
Insaco FAQ
INSACO measures surface roughness using contact and non-contact profilometry. A contact profilometer is a precision instrument that uses a diamond stylus to measure the microscopic irregularities of a surface. A non-contact white light profilometer is an instrument used to measure surface profiles, or the shape of a surface in three dimensions.
Sapphire
Sapphire is an anisotropic, rhombohedral crystal form of Aluminum Oxide. Anisotropic single crystal materials exhibit some properties such as thermal expansion and hardness which vary significantly by orientation. For most applications this is unimportant, however it should be considered. Since 1947, INSACO has had experience with this material and …
Zirconia Engineering Ceramics for High Strength
The Forms and Phases of Zirconia Engineering Ceramics that Lead to High Strength and Toughness. Download PDF Copy. View Supplier Profile. Request Quote. Sponsored by INSACO Inc. - Machining of Hard …
Insaco Brochure: Machined Hard Materials Expertise
INSACO Brochure. INSACO Sales Team. Our History. Standard Quotation Terms and Provisions. News & Events. T he real key to meeting our customers' needs rests with INSACO's working knowledge of both hard materials and the machines required to make precise parts from these materials. It's this unique combination of people and machines …
Silicon
Wafers are produced by highly automated systems and are therefore quite economical. Since 1947, INSACO has developed expertise and equipment to machine technical ceramics of all kinds to very precise dimension and unusual form. We are able to acquire single crystal silicon to desired specification in larger sizes from producers and then …
Employment Opportunities in Precision Machining
1365 Canary Rd. Quakertown, PA 18951. 215.536.3500. sales@insaco. Explore our employment opportunities and become part of our legacy of excellence. Our team is always looking for skilled professionals.
Corporate Video
Corporate Videos. Please watch our company video (below left) highlighting some of our capabilities and services. Also, check out our video answering common questions we receive (below right). To see additional videos, please visit the INSACO YouTube Channel. Feel free to navigate to other pages within our site to see more information on all of ...
Precision Machining and Polishing Services
Insaco's typical applications and a history of case studies to help with your next design 1365 Canary Rd. Quakertown, PA 18951 215.536.3500