Unique Technology
Finally, a fundamental change in the way graphite is made. Not just an improvement, a fundamental difference in the way the structure of the graphite is engineered! Almost nothing is made today the way it was forty years ago. But graphite was, at least until Dick Sebring, the creator and developer of this new “Bundled Technology” graphite, stepped outside of conventional thinking and said, “Why not?”, and Micron Research’s unique family of EDM graphites was born!
For about as long as there has been a U.S. EDM industry, graphite companies have been locked into a struggle, and a technology, that has driven them toward smaller and more uniform particle size and porosity. Smaller and more uniform particles and porosity meant stronger particle-to-particle bonds in the micro-structure of the graphite, and that meant better machinability and EDM performance. Other graphite companies had taken that conventional technology about as far as it could go, with sub-micron particle size and very uniform porosity. Where could the technology go from there?
Micron Research Corporation has taken the technology of the past and built upon it, taking the foundation of solid particle-to-particle bonding and adding a new bonding dynamic to the structure of the graphite, what we call “Bundled Technology”. Bundled Technology means that our small, uniform particles have been engineered into discreet, higher density bundles, held together by an additional molecular bond, to create a unique EDM graphite electrode material. The result is a stronger, more machinable EDM graphite that offers less wear, better surface finish and faster metal removal in the EDM machine.
Two bonds are better than one! EDM Wear Resistance is all about the bonds. Since EDM is a non-contact metal removal method, it is the EDM process itself that breaks the bonds within the graphite which result in EDM electrode wear. The stronger the internal bonds of the material, the more resistant to EDM wear is the material itself. Conventional graphites depend solely upon particle-to-particle bonding for their wear resistance. MICRON EDM graphites build on the foundation of strong particle-to-particle bonds, and then add an additional bonding dynamic, bundled technology. Particles engineered into high-density bundles make for a more wear-resistant graphite because two bonds must be broken instead of one before electrode wear can occur.