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QuesTek launches high-performance stainless steel optimised for Additive Manufacturing
June 24, 2020
QuesTek Innovations LLC, Evanston, Illinois, USA, a developer of metal alloys and powders, has announced a new stainless steel composition for Powd...»
Malvern Panalytical appoints Fleiner as its new president
June 22, 2020
Malvern Panalytical, a supplier of analytical instrumentation and automation solutions provider, and part of Spectris plc, Egham, Surrey, UK, has a...»
HyGear to host webinar on ‘Economical recovery of waste hydrogen and nitrogen gas mixtures’ in July
June 22, 2020
HyGear, a supplier of industrial gases through on-site generation, headquartered in Arnhem, the Netherlands, will host a webinar on ‘Economical r...»
JSJW brings its metal powders to the US market
June 22, 2020
JiangSu JinWu New Material Co., Ltd., (JSJW), headquartered in Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province, China, is introducing its range of metal powders, su...»
ExOne adds new stainless steels to Quick Ship metal Additive Manufacturing service
June 20, 2020
The ExOne Company, North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, USA, has launched its updated Quick Ship metal Binder Jetting (BJT) Additive Manufacturing servi...»
Programme released for Fraunhofer’s Virtual DDMC 2020
June 19, 2020
he Fraunhofer Additive Manufacturing Alliance, Dresden, Germany, has released the programme for its Virtual Direct Digital Manufacturing Conference...»
Wall Colmonoy expands metal powder capabilities at European HQ’s R&D lab
June 18, 2020
Report expects high growth in aluminium powder for AM market by 2023
June 18, 2020
A recently published report, by industry analyst IDC, sponsored by powder and material science company Equispheres, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, predic...»
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.
