November 7, 2007
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Applied Materials Research IFAM in Bremen, northern Germany, have succeeded in developing a miniature MIM demonstration part weighing only 5.4 milligrams and having a wall thickness ... Read more »
October 29, 2007
Mould Research Co. ltd which has been producing MIM parts in Kasutsu City, Shiga Pref., since 1998 and is today one of Japan‘s leading MIM companies, has changed its name to Technes Co Ltd with effect from August 2007. The company uses a patented single ... Read more »
October 29, 2007
OM Group, the Cleveland, Ohio, based producer of cobalt powder and specialist nickel powders, has completed the previously announced sale of its nickel business to Norilsk Nickel for $408 million in cash. Norilsk is Russia’s largest mining and metallurg ... Read more »
October 20, 2007
QinetiQ Nanomaterials Ltd (QNL) is to commission a new small scale production plant in Farnborough, UK, in October 2007 for its range of nanopowders produced by the plasma vaporisation process – the so-called Tesima® process. ‘The new rig will enable Q ... Read more »
October 20, 2007
ECKA Granulate GmbH of Fürth/Bayern, Germany, one of the world’s largest non-ferrous powder producers reports that it is to discontinue copper powder production at its MicroMet site in Hamburg early in October 2008 where Cu and other powders have been ... Read more »
October 15, 2007
Engel Austria GmbH launched its newly developed, compact, fully electric E-Motion Focus 100 injection moulding machine earlier this year at Chinaplas in Guangzhou, China. The major features of the new model series, which will be available by the end of 20 ... Read more »
October 9, 2007
The Fraunhofer IFAM Institute in Bremen, Germany, has developed a process for the manufacture of complex-shaped profiles by extruding metal injection moulding feedstock. Research activities have been directed towards expanding the scope of applications ... Read more »
October 9, 2007
DuPont Titanium Technologies, based in Wilmington, Delaware, said to be the world’s largest producer of titanium dioxide (TiO2) – a white pigment used widely in the coatings, plastics and paper industries, has developed a new process for making high-pur ... Read more »
October 9, 2007
The Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF) has opened the 2008 International PM Design Excellence Awards Competition. The competition recognizes outstanding achievements in the commercial production of powder metallurgy (PM) and metal injection moulded ... Read more »
September 28, 2007
The International Powder Metallurgy Directory (IPMD)13th Edition will be published in January 2008. Since 1977 the IPMD has been the most comprehensive guide available to the global powder metallurgy (PM) industry, with over 4600 listings covering bot ... Read more »
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