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Carpenter Technology and Sandvik establish strategic metal powder partnership
19th Oct, 2010Carpenter Technology Corporation has established a strategic partnership with Sandvik Materials Technology to further strengthen its leadership position in high-performance products for the powder metallurgy industry. As part of the joint venture arrangem Click for more...
New on-line search facility for Powder Metallurgy industry database
17th Oct, 2010
The International Powder Metallurgy Directory’s website, www.ipmd.net has recently been relaunched with a new online search facility. This upgraded facility makes it significantly easier for users to find suppliers and producers of speci... Click for more...
Advanced Powder Products expands Metal Injection Molding (MIM) production facilities
16th Oct, 2010
Advanced Powder Products, Inc. (APP) has broken ground on a 5,100 sq. ft. expansion to its headquarters and manufacturing facility in Philipsburg, PA, USA. The expansion will approximately double APP’s manufacturing space and will also include an... Click for more...
Egide announces success in MIM medical market
11th Oct, 2010
Egide, based in Suffolk, UK, recently celebrated the securing of a five year agreement worth an estimated £1.2 million to supply Metal Injection Moulded (MIM) components to a major UK medical company. Chris Conway, Managing Director, told... Click for more...
Feedstock provider Polymer-Chemie re-established as PolyMIM GmbH
30th Sep, 2010
The Metal Powder Compound Division of Polymer-Chemie GmbH, founded in 2005, has become an independent legal entity as of August 2010 as the newly founded PolyMIM GmbH. Jochen Eichstädt and Dirk Breitbach were appointed General Managers of the compan... Click for more...
Testing sintered products using magnetic characteristic values
29th Sep, 2010
Institut Dr. Foerster will be presenting its new Koerzimat systems used for the non-destructive testing (NDT) of Powder Metallurgy components at this years PM2010 World Congress in Florence, Italy (October 10-14). Foerster specialise in the testing of var Click for more...
Polymer Technologies, Inc. continues to target the MIM aerospace market, and passes re-certification audit of its SAE AS9100B & ISO 9001:2008
22nd Sep, 2010Polymer Technologies Inc., based in Clifton, New Jersey, USA, has announced that it has passed the rigorous re-certification audit renewing the company’s existing Aerospace Quality Standard SAE AS9100B certification. As stringent as the original certifi Click for more...
Powder Metallurgy centre in New Zealand to focus on titanium
22nd Sep, 2010
A new Applied Powder Metallurgy Centre was opened at the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic’s Windermere Campus in Tauranga, New Zealand, in July 2010 to focus on developing applications for high-grade titanium alloy powders manufactured by a new afford... Click for more...
MTU Explores potential for metal injection molding (MIM) in the manufacture of jet engine components
18th Sep, 2010As part of MTU’s drive to improve the efficiency and performance of advanced aero engines, the company has in recent years been looking at metal injection molding (MIM) as a more cost-effective manufacturing method for complex shape compressor vanes loc Click for more...
Chinese powder producer Yuelong expands into atomised powders for metal injection molding (MIM)
14th Sep, 2010Established a number of years as Asia’s leading producer of carbonyl iron powders (CIP), Yuelong Superfine Metal Co., Ltd, located in Guangdong Province, China, is now offering a new range of atomised metal powders for the MIM and PM sectors. These incl Click for more...
Sandvik Osprey wins UK export award for continuous export growth
10th Sep, 2010
Sandvik Osprey Ltd, part of the global Sandvik AB Group, has recently announced that it is the proud recipient of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2010 in the category International Trade. This prestigious award recognises the Company’s ... Click for more...
New titanium powder plant to be on stream by year end
23rd Jul, 2010International Titanium Powder LLC (ITP) of Woodbridge, Illinois, USA, is expected to begin producing commercial quantities of low cost pure and alloyed Ti powders at its new plant in Ottawa, Illinois, later this year. The plant is expected to reach its... Click for more...
Adamou uses Ceramic Injection Moulding route to produce valve seat
12th Jul, 2010
A Ceramic Injection Moulded valve seat produced by Adamou Sàrl Adamou Sàrl of Etoy, Switzerland, is using ceramic injection moulding (CIM) to produce a sintered valve seat from 99.9% alumina powder... Click for more...
Successful MIM2010 conference draws an international audience
12th Jun, 2010
The Metal Powder Industry Federation’s MIM2010 Conference took place from 29-31 March, in Long Beach, California, USA. The three day event succeeded in attracting a diverse audience, bringing a distinctly international feel to what has traditiona... Click for more...
Megamet demonstrates hollow MIM components using ‘Dissolving Core Technology’
10th Jun, 2010
Megamet Solid Metals, Inc., Earth City, Missouri, USA, presented their development of ‘Dissolving Core Technology’ for the processing of complex hollow MIM parts at the MIM2010 Conference, Long Beach, March 29-31. The process, the company c... Click for more...
MIM2011 International Conference Injection Molding of Metals, Ceramics & Carbides: Call for Presentations published
27th May, 2010
Following the success of this year’s MIM2010 conference, the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF) has issued a “Call for Presentations” for the MIM2011 International Conference Injection Molding of Metals, Ceramics & Carbides Click for more...









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