May 5, 2008
Hoganas AB, the Swedish-based iron powder producer, has reported first quarter pretax profits of SEK191million, a rise of 11 percent on the same period last year, with volumes growth rising 5%. Market expectations were for a first quarter pretax profit of ... Read more »
April 15, 2008
AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) has acquired Reading Alloys, a privately held producer of specialty metal powders for a range of markets including Metal Injection Moulding (MIM) and Powder Metallurgy (PM). With annual sales of approximately $80 million, Reading ... Read more »
April 14, 2008
Egide, the UK based metal injection moulding (MIM) producer, reported strong demand for metal injection moulded parts in 2007, a year in which they experienced a 25% increase in business. Egide has high hopes of further growth in the region of 40% in 2008 ... Read more »
April 9, 2008
GKN Sinter Metals, a leading global powder metallurgy (PM) parts supplier, opened the doors of its Bad Langensalza metal injection moulding (MIM) plant to Powder Injection Moulding International late last year. GKN manufactures several hundred tons of MIM ... Read more »
April 1, 2008
Metallied Powder Solutions, S.A. is a new company based near San Sebastian, Spain, that designs, manufactures and sells metal powders in small batch sizes for special applications and research and development activities. Founded in February 2007, the comp ... Read more »
March 31, 2008
Carpenter Technology Corp. has announced its acquisition of the assets and business of UltraFine Powder Technology Inc. Founded in 1987, UltraFine Powder Technology Inc. produces fine gas atomized powders which are used in metal injection moulding and oth ... Read more »
March 18, 2008
Sintez RusMlM Ltd has appointed Burkard Metallpulver Vertrieb GmbH (BMV) as its exclusive agent in Europe for the sales and marketing of its carbonyl iron products (CIP) for the use in metal injection moulding (MIM), diamond tools and synthetic diamonds. ... Read more »
February 27, 2008
The International Powder Metallurgy Directory (IPMD) is the world’s leading directory of powder metallurgy parts producers and industry suppliers worldwide. The all new 468 page 13th Edition, published by Inovar Communications Ltd, now contains in excess ... Read more »
January 18, 2008
Although Australia has the world’s largest economic reserves of titanium ore and is a leading exporter, the cost and complexity of processing this ore has deterred the development of a local, integrated, titanium metal industry. However, over the past f ... Read more »
January 18, 2008
Freeman Technology of Malvern, Worc., UK, has received the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2007 for the development, commercialisation and sales success of its patented FT4 powder rheometer, which the company states is a new way to measure the ... Read more »
January 18, 2008
Arburg GmbH of Lossburg, Germany, has opened a new technology centre in Elgin, Ill, USA, close to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The 6,000 ft2 facility has a capacity for six injection moulding machines ranging from 14 ton models to the 618-t ... Read more »
January 15, 2008
In September 2006 BMW introduced its new BMW Hydrogen 7 car as the world’s first automobile capable of industrialising hydrogen technologies for ‘regular’ production vehicles. The BMW Hydrogen 7 car has been built in a limited series (around 100) in ... Read more »
January 1, 2008
The giant double-decker Airbus A380 airliner went into commercial service with Singapore Airlines in October 2007 flying from Singapore to Sydney, Australia. The first Metal Injection Moulded (MIM) parts to be used in the Airbus family, including the A380 ... Read more »
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