Background
This extremely high strength wrought cupro nickel is used in a variety of marine applications - including the oil, gas and defence sectors - for its outstanding corrosion resistance combined with extreme strength and hardness. The CAL T-1000 is also highly resistant to wear, has a low magnetic permeability, resists galling against stainless steel and does not suffer from marine growth (bio-fouling) or hydrogen embrittlement.
The main strengthening mechanism involves the precipitation of an extremely fine nickel-aluminium Ni3Al phase. Our deep metallurgical understanding of this mechanism and our advanced manufacturing techniques allows us to induce industry-leading properties which are unavailable elsewhere.
This material is available in two strength versions; T-1000S (table 2A standard material) and T-1000E (table 2B enhanced version). The enhanced versions, T-1000E, is only available in bars (square/flat/round/shapes) to around 100mm ø.
T-1000E is amongst the strongest copper-based alloys available anywhere.