Cladding Process
How Clad becomes Clad
There are several ways we make clad metals at EMS, yet, the most common method is by a continuous roll bonding process that combines two or more strips of metal.
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Cleanliness is paramount. First, the individual strips are either chemically or mechanically cleaned to provide contaminant-free surfaces. The strips then pass through a highly customized rolling mill which is designed specifically for cladding.
As they pass through the mill, the rolls exert immense pressure that reduces strip thickness and creates a metallurgical bond as the atomic lattices of the different metals merge into a common structure. The resulting composite material – a clad metal – derives its integrity from this shared electron interface.
Cladding Process
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