Welding and Brazing - Ceramics and Metals
Can be conducted on the sintered metal components as readily as on cast and wrought metal components. The ceramic parts can be brazed after metallizing.

Finishing - Ceramics and Metals
Finishing may be required to remove certain injection molding blemishes such as gate marks, ejector pin marks, or parting lines. A final surface finishing in vibratory vessels using various abrasive media can smooth the surfaces.

Machining, Grinding or Lapping - Metals
May be desirable to produce tighter dimensional tolerances or to add certain features which are not economically feasible in the tooling. Some examples are internal threads, reamed holes or ground surfaces to create tighter tolerances on outside diameters or flat areas. Lapping can produce extremely flat surfaces when the cost is justified.

Plating - Metals
Plating can be applied to sintered metal surfaces essentially the same way as cast and wrought surfaces. Some common plated surfaces are copper, nickel, chrome and gold.

Heat Treatment - Metals
Can be done to all conventionally heat treatable metals with essentially the same results.

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