HOOD - Bimetals, Engineered Clads, Precision Stamping, Nickel and Nickel Alloys

Bimetals & Engineered Clads

Specialty Clad Metals

Utilizing over 40 years of cladding experience, HOOD can combine the properties of up to five dissimilar metals utilizing state of the art cold roll bonding. Cladding of dissimilar metals can optimize material choices and reduce the use of expensive materials.

Target Features:

Reduced costs
Reduced weight
Tailored mechanical attributes
Custom electrical properties
Improved corrosion resistance

A Variety of Materials:

Steels, stainless and alloyed steels
Nickel alloys
Copper alloys
Controlled expansion alloys
High yield strength alloys

Detail:

A thermostatic bimetal is a composite made of two or more thin metal components with different coefficient of thermal expansion, bounded together. Bimetals can be used to transform changes in temperature into changes in shape, mechanical force or any combination of both in various ways. They can be used both as sensor and actuator. This accounts for the wide spread use of bimetals in:

Competitive priced measuring and control instruments
Temperature control switches and valves
Compensation elements used in electrical engineering, heat technology and the automotive industry