Compared with the conventional manufacture of materials based on the melting technology, the Powder Metallurgy has some typical advantages:

• The production of alloys which are nearly impossible to achieve with the conventional melting technology (gravity segregation, solidification segregation, phase segregation)
• Homogeneous material with isotropic properties, which contains no segregations
• Hardphases with a defined grain size, which are homogeneously distributed in the matrix
• near net shape blanks to optimise the use of the raw material and to ensure a reasonable prize
• composite materials which achieve special functional properties in locally specified areas, where they are needed (SARACOM)
  

Cast structure Co-hardmaterials alloys 6
and to compare:

PM-HIP-structure Co-hardmaterials alloys 6