What is "Niculan"? 1

[hexane]

My client want us to make our product(spectacle frame) by the material called "Niculan", what's that kind of alloy?
Thanks!

 

[IRstuff]

OK, interesting question.

It appears to be something possibly unique to Carl Zeiss:

http://www.zeiss.de/4125680F0053A38D/Contents

http://WWWIntern/E29977B2C0D49FF3C1256E7E003A12BC

possibly some sort of nickel alloy:

http://www.wastechange.net/wastechange/metal_recycling_available.htm

A french site calls it [niculan "alliage trempant"]:

http://www.acuite.fr/articles.asp?REF=530

A Babelfish translation from another French site:

Soaking metals ? One finds two great families: the alloys coppers and beryllium or copper, nickel and tin, this last representing the majority of soaking metals. They are known under the names of Nicaflor 1000 (copper, 10% nickel, 6% tin) at Cottet, Nibrodal (copper, 15% of nickel, tin 8%) at Öga and Marius Morel, Niculan at Exalto-Oxibis... ? When one welds the components, nose, circles and tenons, the heated matter becomes soft. With materials soaking, one resolidifie matter thanks to a thermal 370° treatment after their working, to find important mechanical characteristics. What ensures a strong solidity and allows, therefore, design of very fine mountings.

http://www.bienvu.presse.fr/textes/numero59/doss59.htm

Can't attest to the veracity of the translation.

TTFN