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MPIF cancels WORLDPM2020, AMPM2020 and Tungsten2020 due to coronavirus (COVID-19)
March 27, 2020
The Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF) has announced that 2020 World Congress on Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials (WorldPM2020), th...»
DSH Technologies offers furnace time at no charge to produce Covid-19 components
March 26, 2020
Debinding and sintering experts DSH Technologies, a sister company of Elnik Systems, LLC, headquartered in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, USA, is offerin...»
CECIMO calls Additive Manufacturing companies to action to assist hospitals during coronavirus
March 20, 2020
CECIMO, the European Association of the Machine Tool Industries and related Manufacturing Technologies, has issued a call to action for Additive Ma...»
VDM Metals acquired by stainless steel manufacturing group Acerinox
March 20, 2020
Acerinox, S.A. a multi-national stainless steel manufacturing group based in Madrid, Spain, has acquired VDM Metals GmbH, Werdohl, Germany, in tran...»
WorldPM2020 programme launched
March 17, 2020
The ororganisers of WorldPM2020, the World Congress on Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials, have released the full congress programme. The ev...»
QuesTek enters joint venture agreement with Itochu Techno-Solutions
March 13, 2020
QuesTek Innovations LLC, Evanston, Illinois, USA, has entered into a joint venture agreement with Itochu Techno-Solutions (CTC), Tokyo, Japan. The ...»
AMUG Conference postponed until 2021
March 12, 2020
The Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) has postponed and rescheduled its 32nd annual AMUG Conference and Business Meeting due to the spread ...»
Injection moulding machine specialist Arburg opens new training centre
March 11, 2020
Arburg GmbH & Co KG officially opened its new Training Centre at the company’s headquarters in Lossburg, Germany, on March 6. Covering some 13,70...»
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.
