Vale Nickel Metal Powders Available in Various Sizes

At William Rowland, we are proud suppliers and distributors of Vale. This allows us to offer Vale type 123 and 255 nickel powders in a variety of sizes and morphologies. Vale is well-known in the industry for producing high-quality nickel products to a wide market.

Vale Nickel Powders are primarily used in auto parts, electrical contacts, binders for diamond tools, batteries, electro-magnetic shielding and more.

As distributors of Vale™, we offer their nickel powder types 123 and 255. Nickel carbonyl gas produces nickel powders in a variety of sizes and morphologies:

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Our Vale Nickel Powder Products

Vale™ Type 123

Description: Fine, discrete, spherical particles with a spiky, irregular surface.

Average particle size: 3-7µm FSSS.

Apparent density: 1.6-2 g/cc.

Specific surface area: Typically 0.4 m2/g.

Qualities: The unique and reproducible shape of this powder promotes mixing and binding with other metal powders to produce homogeneous distributions important for diffusion and consolidation by sintering.

Applications: Primarily Powder Metallurgy applications; high density Powder Metallurgy parts for auto parts; high purity magnetic and controlled expansion alloys; non-ferrous sintered components; electrical contacts; and binders for diamond tools and heavy alloys.

Vale™ Type 255

Description: Filamentary powders with excellent conductivity due to their bead and chain structures.

Average particle size: Typically 2.2 -3.3µ.

Apparent density: 0.50 -0.95 g/cc.

Specific surface area: Typically 0.6 - 8.0m²/g.

Applications: These low apparent density powders are used in battery and fuel cell electrodes to render conductivity to non-metallic materials such as paints and plastics used in electro-magnetic shielding (EMS) applications. They are also used as non-metallic and corrosion-resistant binders in refractory metal cements e.g. hard metals.