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Still time to register for AM Forum Berlin 2020
February 19, 2020
There is still time to register for the 4th Additive Manufacturing Forum Berlin, which will take place at the Estrel Congress & Messe Center, Berli...»
Wohlers Associates to hold its Investor Dinner at RAPID + TCT 2020
February 18, 2020
The Wohlers Associates Investor Dinner is this year sponsored by SME and the TCT Group, the producers of RAPID + TCT, and will take place at RAPID ...»
U.S. marines in Okinawa install Metal X system for AM of vehicle or weapon parts
February 15, 2020
Members of the III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF), stationed at the U.S. armed forces base Camp Kinser, Okinawa, Japan, have installed a Mark...»
ALD’s Heat Treatment Services division to open heat treatment facility in China
February 11, 2020
Heat Treatment Services (HTS), a division of ALD Vacuum Technologies GmbH headquartered in Hanau, Germany, has announced that it will establish a n...»
Metallic3D introduces new bound metal paste Additive Manufacturing machine
February 11, 2020
Metallic3D, based in Stuart, Florida, USA, has added a new metal Additive Manufacturing machine, the M3D300. Utilising the company’s bound metal...»
Swansea University opens £35 million materials and engineering research facility
February 10, 2020
Swansea University, Wales, UK, has opened the Institute for Innovative Materials, Processing and Numerical Technologies (IMPACT), a £35 million ma...»
Dutch Aerospace Centre to install Xerion Fusion Factory Compact
February 10, 2020
The Dutch Aerospace Centre (NLR), based in Marknesse, the Netherlands, in cooperation with the Dutch Ministry of Defence, will install a Fusion Fac...»
QuesTek co-founder Prof Greg Olson joins Massachusetts Institute of Technology
February 7, 2020
QuesTek Innovations LLC, a leading developer of metal alloys based in Evanston, Illinois, USA, has announced that Professor Greg Olson, the company...»
Mimecrisa: Pushing the limits of Metal Injection Moulding technology
Mimecrisa, the Metal Injection Moulding business of Spain’s Ecrimesa Group, based in the northern city of Santander, is one of Europe’s leading MIM manufacturers, with more than twenty-five years’ experience in the technology.
The company, which was the world’s first MIM manufacturer to install a continuous sintering furnace for MIM part production, continues to go from strength-to-strength, with a reputation in particular for the production of parts that push the size limits of the technology.
Georg Schlieper recently visited the company on behalf of PIM International and reports on the history and current status of the company.
Metal Injection Moulding: An alternative manufacturing process for aerospace applications?
The aerospace sector has long been recognised as an important potential market for the Metal Injection Moulding industry. However, extended application development cycles, combined with a lack of fundamental process understanding and rigorous validation requirements have, until now, held back the technology.
In the following article, Rolls-Royce’s Enrico Daenicke and Schunk Sintermetalltechnik GmbH’s Ingolf Langer report on the development of a new generation of high-performance MIM components that are now flying in Rolls-Royce aero engines: IN713LC superalloy stator vanes.
Powder Injection Molding:
A revolution in manufacturing
Metal Injection Molded Ti-6Al-4V parts used in the adjustment system of a knee rehabilitation device (Courtesy Silcon Plastic, Italy)
Powder Injection Molding (PIM), comprising Metal Injection Molding (MIM) and Ceramic Injection Molding (CIM), is an advanced manufacturing technology for the production of precise, high volume, net-shape components.
Whilst many design engineers remain unaware of the potential of this technology, Powder Injection Molding is today a global industry with annual sales in excess of $2 billion and strong growth rates.
To discover more about how the technology has revolutionised component production, browse our Introduction to Metal Injection Molding. You can also download past issues of PIM International magazine in PDF format from our archive, offering insight into the technology and its applications.
