O.V. Roman Powder Metallurgy Institute offers consumers a Products made of magnesium alloys for radio-electronic and other industries under a manufacturing agreement and is looking for partners to conclude a distribution services agreement.

Magnesium alloy products are widely used in the electronics industry due to their lightweight, high strength, excellent thermal conductivity, and shielding properties. These materials are used to manufacture housings, heatsinks, screens, and other components. Several leading manufacturers specialize in the development and production of magnesium alloy products for the electronics industry. The main global manufacturers of magnesium alloy products for the electronics industry are:

1. Magnesium Elektron (Luxfer Group) (UK)
- Features: One of the world's leading manufacturers of magnesium alloys. The company offers specialized alloys for the electronics industry, including materials with improved shielding and thermal conductivity properties.

2. China Magnesium Corporation (China)
- Features: The company produces magnesium alloys and products for various industries, including electronics. Their products are competitively priced and of high quality.

3. Dead Sea Magnesium Ltd. (Israel)
- Key Features: Manufacturer of magnesium alloys with a wide range of applications, including the electronics industry. The company's products are characterized by high purity and stable properties.

4. POSCO Magnesium (South Korea)
- Key Features: POSCO Magnesium is part of the POSCO Corporation and offers magnesium alloys for high-tech applications, including the electronics industry.

5. Advanced Magnesium Alloys Corporation (AMACOR) (USA)
- Official website: unavailable.
- Key Features: AMACOR specializes in the production of magnesium alloys for various industries, including electronics. The company is known for its innovative solutions.

6. VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation (Russia)
- Key Features: One of the largest manufacturers of magnesium and titanium alloys. The company offers products for the electronics industry, including shielding and cooling components.

For the first time in the Republic of Belarus, the O.V. Roman Institute of Powder Metallurgy has mastered a flux-free casting technology for magnesium alloy products of various sizes and applications. The technology utilizes the inert sulfur-fluoride gas "elegas" instead of traditionally used "carnalite" flux preparations. This eliminates alloy ignition and slag inclusions, resulting in high-quality castings with consistent performance under impact loads. The technology enables the use of chill casting, earth casting, and high-pressure casting. Magnesium alloys possess a number of unique physical and chemical properties, the most important of which are low density and high strength. This combination of qualities enables the production of products and structures from magnesium-infused materials that boast high strength characteristics (σВ = 400–500 MPa) at a relatively low density (1.74 g/cm3), and are resistant to air, alkalis, fluorine-containing gases, and mineral oils. Magnesium alloy products are characterized by high damping capacity (effective absorption of elastic vibrations), which provides excellent shock load tolerance and reduced sensitivity to resonance phenomena.

The information is published in the Catalog "Brands of the NAS of Belarus 2021–2022: A List of the Most Important Developments of the NAS of Belarus" (2023), pp. 106–107.

Alloying additives are used to produce magnesium-based alloys with high physical, mechanical, and other properties. The most common of these include aluminum, manganese, and zinc. Aluminum modification improves the structure, increases fluidity, and increases strength. The addition of zinc allows for the production of stronger alloys with a smaller grain size. Manganese or zirconium enhance the corrosion resistance of magnesium alloys. Thus, modifying industrial magnesium alloys can enhance their properties, improve the quality of castings and products, and enhance their competitiveness. Lithium is added to the alloys to create ultra-lightweight materials with a density of 1.3 to 1.6 g/m³. This alloying additive allows for a weight reduction of half that of aluminum alloys.

Magnesium alloy castings are used to produce components and parts for modern technical devices where weight efficiency (reduced weight) while maintaining strength is a priority. Compared to aluminum, magnesium is 1.5 times lighter, and 4.5 times lighter than steel. Magnesium alloys are currently widely used in aerospace, automotive, military, and other industries. Due to their high electrical potential, magnesium alloys are ideal for creating protectors that provide electrochemical protection for steel structures (e.g., automotive parts, underground structures, oil platforms, marine vessels, etc.) against corrosion caused by precipitation, freshwater, and seawater.

The development of biosoluble magnesium alloy implants for medical use is promising.

The manufacturer is the Separate Self-Accounting Division "Institute of Pulse Processes with Pilot Production" of the State Scientific Institution "Academician O. V. Roman Institute of Powder Metallurgy."

The Institute completed the research project "Develop a Foundry Technology for Magnesium and Its Alloy Castings for Anode Protection Parts and Medical Equipment" (State Registration No. 20181574). The project was funded by the Republican Centralized Innovation Fund and was carried out outside the framework of state (industry) scientific and technical programs. The presented products were obtained under Economic Contract No. 301/22-72 with AGAT-SYSTEM OJSC.

The results of the research were used in the development of the technology.

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The Institute's areas of activity.

Fundamental research:
- development of scientific principles for controlling the properties of composite powder materials with inclusions of a hard (soft) phase using computer modeling of their macrostructure and behavior under external force and temperature influences;
- development of scientific principles for the creation of and methods for controlling the structure and properties of nanostructured composite materials;
- development of scientific foundations for the creation of permeable materials with an organized structure obtained by powder metallurgy methods for combustion, filtration, and catalysis;
- study of heat and mass transfer processes in porous powder materials with an irregular pore structure;
- development of scientific foundations for producing composite powders of a given chemical and phase composition using mechanical alloying, granulation, self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS), and the application of functional protective coatings from powder materials;
- study of the mechanism of strengthening of composite coatings during treatment with highly concentrated energy flows;
- Mathematical modeling of the formation of deformations and stresses in welded structures;
- Development of theoretical and technological foundations for the production of welding materials and components for their production;
- Study of metallurgical and thermal deformation processes during high-speed plastic deformation of materials for the production of welded joints and materials (friction stir welding);
- Fundamental scientific research on the effects of pulsed processes on materials, and the interaction of compact and discrete powder bodies at various loading rates, including those due to the energy of explosives;
- Development of a mathematical and computer model for the interaction of a melt particle with a solid surface under changing environmental parameters and the properties of the coatings being formed;

Applied Research:
- Development and implementation of new technological processes, materials, and equipment in the field of creating functional ceramics, porous materials for various purposes, layered and cast composite materials using high pressures and various loading rates;
- Development of low-alloy powder steels with a nanoscale dispersed ferrite-martensite structure obtained using interparticle and intergranular sliding mechanisms during pressing and heat treatment, and the manufacture of products from them;
- Production of nanoscale additives based on aluminum, copper, silicon, manganese, chromium, phosphorus, carbon, and other elements using mechanical activation, SHS, and hydrothermal synthesis;
- Production of capillary-porous powder materials with an irregular pore structure based on copper, nickel, titanium, and aluminum to intensify heat and mass transfer processes in cooling systems of new electronic devices, personal computer components, and laptops;
- Production of highly efficient porous and highly porous cellular materials with functional coatings through the creation of composite microstructures such as metal-ceramics, polymer-ceramics, and ceramic-ceramics (filter elements, membranes) for energy-saving liquid and gas purification processes;
- Production of hard alloys with the introduction of nanocrystalline carbides and transition metal oxides for the manufacture of forming tools;
- Development of technologies for the production of carbon-carbon materials and products made from them;
- Study of high-speed plastic deformation processes in friction stir welding;
- Development of new composite powder materials with high performance properties, including high density, capillary-porous, wear-resistant, radar-absorbing, heat-shielding, etc.

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