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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Robert Bosch LLC, part of the global Bosch Group, has opened a new 70,000 ft2 technical centre in Plymouth Township, Mich. USA to enhance and expand its engineering and development capacity in North America. The facility features research and development ... Read more »
The successful application of copperMIM in thermal management systems could be the catalyst that fuels liquid cooling systems production, states Singapore-based PIM producer Acelent Technologies. The company, established at the end of 2005, reports succes ... Read more »
GKN PLC reported that its powder metallurgy (PM) business, which includes metal injection moulding (MIM) operations at the Bad Langensalza plant in Germany, reports positive progress during the first six months of 2007 with higher sales, profits, and ... Read more »
The September issue of Powder Injection Moulding International has just been published. This feature-packed 64 page issue includes 10 pages of industry news plus the following special features: The Powder injection moulding of cemented carbides: a global ... Read more »
Metal injection moulding (MIM) related presentations are set to be a highlight of the European Powder Metallurgy Association’s annual conference in Toulouse, France, 15-17 October 2007. The following sessions focus on MIM technology and include a speci ... Read more »
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