Feature article: PIM International, Vol.4 No.3 September 2010, pages 38-40, 1237 words

Author: Nick Williams, PIM International

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MIMITALIA is a small Italian producer that has adapted the MIM process to develop a range of revolutionary diamond tool segments. PIM International’s Nick Williams visited the company at its manufacturing facility on the Italian Riviera and reports on progress towards its penetration of the lucrative international diamond tool market.

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MIMITALIA is a small specialist MIM producer located on Italy’s Riviera coast in Vado Ligure, an industrial port close to the city of Genoa. The company was founded in 2002 by a small group of friends from Italy’s Centro Sviluppo Materiali SpA (CSM), a major materials research institute based in Rome.

MIMITALIA’s Dr. Bruno Vicenzi was one of the founding partners in the company and during PIM International’s recent visit he explained the motivation behind its formation. “At CSM we were undertaking high quality research into advanced powder based materials, particularly materials that related to Italy’s major hard material and diamond tool sectors. To our frustration, however, work with great potential frequently failed to be taken up by industry. The wish to address this was a big motivating factor behind the decision to establish MIMITALIA”......

Further sections of this article include:

- MIM diamond tools
- Other MIM products
- Production facilities
- Technology awareness
- Outlook

Figures and Tables:

Fig. 1 MIM diamond beads on sintering trays at MIMITALIA. Note that copper coated tube inserts are used to attach the finished conical beads to cutting machinery wires
Fig. 2 Example of a multi-wire machine at work (Image Co.fi.plast. Srl, Brasil)
Fig. 3  A closeup view of the EPMA Award winning diamond bead produced by MIMITALIA
Fig. 4 A selection of standard MIM components produced by MIMITALIA
Fig. 5  An Arburg 320 C Allrounder injection moulding machine at MIMITALIA
Fig. 6  A water debinding tank for the first stage of the debinding process
Fig. 7  MIMITALIA’s Gero Hochtemperaturöfen GmbH vacuum sintering furnace
Fig. 8 Diamond beads before sintering. Shrinkage during sintering forms a tight fit with the steel inserts

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