
The company offers pure lead and a significant amount of lead-based alloys.
Lead and lead alloys are widely used in modern industry both separately and in combination with other substances. This metal is easily processed, has excellent casting properties, but due to its low strength, its use as a structural material is very limited. High corrosion resistance makes it possible to actively use lead in the chemical industry for lining pipelines and chemical equipment.
Lead is easy to alloy with other metals, resulting in compositions with new characteristics that are in demand in the industry. There are high-alloy and low-alloy compositions. The first contain various additives that make the resulting material hard and durable. Low-alloy alloys, on the contrary, contain very few impurities, most often tin, cadmium or copper. Such additives increase the resistance of the material to corrosion, make it more fluid. The most popular alloys that include lead are the pewter, solder, and babbits.
Pewter is a cheap compound that is 85 percent tin. It is used in the production of cables and household products. Solder includes about a third of antimony, it is most often used in electrical engineering. Babbits are multicomponent compounds that are 80 percent lead. They also use tin and antimony. These materials have a low friction coefficient and a fairly high operating temperature, which allows them to be used for the manufacture of bearings. The lead alloys, including cadmium, mercury, bismuth and other substances are also popular and they are actively used in the automotive and industrial sectors.
The most demanded products today on the market:
- Pewter
- Various Babbits