Today, Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) is standard practice to improve the material properties of parts for demanding markets, like additive manufacturing.
However, to be as cost effective and flexible as possible HIP technology has developed towards including more process steps into the HIP system and today a modern HIP system can apply stress relieving, pore elimination, quenching and ageing directly in one combined process cycle. With advances like these, HIP technology will expand its area of use and continue to play a vital role in the powder metal production route for future demanding usage.
