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On-demand manufacturing marketplace Xometry announces $75 million equity round
September 9, 2020
Xometry, headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, has completed a $75 million equity round, led by funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price...»
Still time to register for MPIF’s on-demand Powder Injection Moulding tutorial
September 7, 2020
There is still time to register for the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF)’s virtual on-demand Powder Injection Moulding tutorial, conduct...»
PM China 2020 reports 14% visitor growth
September 7, 2020
The 13th International Exhibition for Powder Metallurgy, Cemented Carbides and Advanced Ceramics (PM China 2020) which was held August 12–14, 202...»
Euro PM2020 Virtual Congress programme launched
September 4, 2020
The European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA) has published the programme for its Euro PM2020 Virtual Congress. The Virtual Congress, the first...»
Formnext 2020 to be a virtual-only event amid ongoing COVID crisis
September 2, 2020
Mesago Messe Frankfurt GmbH, the organiser of Formnext, the leading international event for Additive Manufacturing/3D printing, has confirmed that ...»
Xerion’s Fusion Factory installed at Fraunhofer IFAM's facility in Dresden
August 29, 2020
The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM), Dresden, Germany, reports that it has installed a new Fusion F...»
MIM2021 to take place as virtual conference
August 27, 2020
The Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF) reports that MIM2021: International Conference on Injection Molding of Metals, Ceramics and Carbides,...»
Desktop Metal to be publicly listed following investment from Trine
August 27, 2020
Sinter-based metal Additive Manufacturing technology developer Desktop Metal, Burlington, Massachusetts, USA, has announced that it will become a p...»
Element 22: A leader in titanium MIM leverages its expertise to advance sinter-based Ti Additive Manufacturing
The production of titanium components by powder-based processes requires specialist knowledge and in-depth expertise in the handling and, in particular, the debinding and sintering of this highly reactive metal.
Element 22 GmbH is a global leader in the Metal Injection Moulding of titanium and its alloys, and a growing focus of the company’s development activities is sinter-based Additive Manufacturing.
Dr Georg Schlieper visited the company on behalf of PIM International and reports on the current state of production and the company’s future ambitions.
Digitising part production:
A new approach to creating unique part IDs for MIM components
Terms such as Industry 4.0 and the Digital Twin trace back to the growing trend to digitise industrial processes. Modern production equipment delivers a huge quantity of process data, and the continuous analysis and correlation of these data could result in process stability improvements, less scrap and enhanced traceability. For such advances to be applied to MIM production, the permanent surface marking of each part with a unique ID is required.
In this article, Prof Dr-Ing Frank Petzoldt and Lutz Kramer, from Fraunhofer IFAM, Bremen, Germany, report on the development of a process that offers a cost-effective solution to what currently poses a significant technical challenge.
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.
