Thermal insulating material

Tender description

The contracting authority seeks notes of interest for a potential procurement exercise for the below requirement: The University of Strathclyde requires a Supplier to provide a high temperature insulation material to be part of an isothermal die stack capable of operating within an isothermal forging vacuum chamber at a temperature of 1 300 ⁰C and loads of up to 2 000 metric tons. The required insulation material is Pyrolytic Graphite plates, which need to take load up to 2 500 kg/cm2 at temperature between room temperature and 1 300 ⁰C and insulates against heat migration along the die stack. The Thermal conductivity in the thickness direction of the plate must be below 1.75W/moK within the operating range of temperature. The material is required to be supplied machined and grinded with parallelism and planarity below 0.05 mm. Potential tenderers who believe they can fulfil the above requirement are asked to note their interest in order to be involved in the potential pre-tender engagement. Potential tenderers are asked to review the high level requirement provided on this PIN and note their interest against the notice. It is anticipated that an ITT will be published in June.