PIM International, Vol. 17 No. 3 Autumn 2023

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The 120-page Autumn 2023 issue of PIM International (Vol. 17 No. 3) features over forty pages of industry news, plus the following articles and technical reviews:

Additive Screen Printing: Industrialised AM technology for metals, ceramics and beyond from Exentis Group AG

The potential of sinter-based Additive Manufacturing for industrial production, along with the diversity of the processes that are being developed, continues to surprise.

Switzerland’s Exentis Group AG has taken its own path to commercial success with what it terms ‘Additive Screen Printing’, and its speed and precision is delivering growth and opening up opportunities around the world. Dr Georg Schlieper reports on a recent visit to the company for PIM International.

The future is titanium: TriTech Titanium Parts targets the opportunities for MIM, Binder Jetting and Investment Casting

Titanium has long been recognised as a material with huge potential. Lightweight with excellent mechanical properties, it is also corrosion resistant and biocompatible. However, the challenge has always been cost – in part because of difficulties in machining. The Metal Injection Moulding of titanium – and more recently Binder Jetting – now present major opportunities to expand the material’s use.

TriTech Titanium Parts, LLC is seizing this opportunity – whilst simultaneously maximising the scope of what it can manufacture by offering Investment Casting. Bernard North visited the company for PIM International.

Plansee: Innovation drives energy reduction in vacuum furnaces for MIM and sinter-based Additive Manufacturing

Whilst Metal Injection Moulding and sinter-based Additive Manufacturing processes such as Binder Jetting are already recognised as ‘greener’ technologies than conventional processes such as casting, the drive towards energy efficiency in the sintering process is crucial to further reduce the product carbon footprint of sintered parts.

Here, Plansee High Performance Materials, a Plansee Group company, introduces a new generation of hot zones that reduce energy consumption by as much as 27% – while maintaining high performance.

Discover what MIM could do for you: Explore award-winning parts from the 2023 PM Design Excellence Awards

Metal Injection Moulding is one of the most capable manufacturing processes for small precision components, yet it is also one of the least well known. MIM parts are everywhere, from smartphones to watches, cars to aircraft – but these examples are rarely noticed by those outside of the industry.

Here, we present the 2023 award-winning MIM and sinter-based AM parts from the Metal Powder Industries Federation’s Powder Metallurgy Design Excellence Awards. These examples offer an insight into the technology, as well as the opportunity for product designers and engineers to consider how they might use MIM in their own projects.

Metal Injection Moulding in Japan: Applications and materials insight from the 2022 JPMA MIM Market Report

The Japan Powder Metallurgy Association’s (JPMA) annual statistics report on Metal Injection Moulding provides unique insight into the ongoing evolution of the country’s MIM industry. As well as revealing a continued upsurge in production in 2022, changes in the applications and materials mix offer visibility into growth areas for the industry.

We present the published data along with insight from the JPMA into wider factors that influenced the broader Japanese PM industry in 2022.

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