The winners in the 2023 Powder Metallurgy (PM) Design Excellence Awards competition, sponsored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), demonstrate outstanding examples of PM’s diversity and ability to meet critical requirements. From electric vehicles to medical implants, once again, parts fabricators have demonstrated PM’s versatility and unique ability to challenge competing technologies. These award-winning components use PM’s flexibility to push forward new concepts and process controls to demonstrate the inexhaustible range of PM’s capabilities.

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1980s Herald Exciting P/M Future
Alcoa Opens Aluminum Powder Plant
Pitney Bowes Announces New High Strength P/M Alloy
Southern Sintered Metals Sold
CMP Metal Powders Inc. Formed
Brockway Closes Tennessee Plant
Glidden Offers New Powders
Profel Introduces P/M Presses
P/M '80 Medallion Made From Titanium Powder
MPIF Plans Management Conference
New MPIF 
Membership List
Competition Winners Judged
Powder Companies Host Spring Clinic Conference
Call for Papers -P/M Session at 1981 SAE Meeting
People in the News
P/M Patents
 

MPIF President Rodney Brennen, President of Metco Industries, Inc. will present the State of the North American PM Industry during the Opening General Session at PowderMet2023 / AMPM2023 on June 19 in Las Vegas.

Zhigang “Zak” Fang, FAPMI, materials sciences and metallurgical engineering professor, University of Utah, is the recipient of the prestigious Humboldt Research Award. Fang has developed a breakthrough technology that can produce high-quality, low-carbon emitting titanium powder at a significantly reduced cost. Known as the Hydrogen Assisted Metallothermic Reduction (HAMR) process, the technology developed by Fang is based on the discovery of new science about the effects of hydrogen on the stability of titanium solid solutions with high oxygen content (up to 14wt%.)

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PM2TEC'96 World Congress a Winner
Aluminum PIM Alliance
Top P/M Automotive Suppliers
CM Furnaces' 50th Year
New P/M Tool Steel Company
Sales Record at ASL
HJE Joins MIM Market
New Lab Scale Grinding Mill
Expanding Cobalt Supplies
Internet Seminar
MPIF Educational Events
Call-For-Papers 1997 SAE Congress
Section Meeting Dates
People in the News
Dates to Remember
 

MPIF has released the latest video in its Demonstrated Success Story series promoting the Metal Injection Molding (MIM) technology that enables the development and high volume production of precision, complex parts for medical and dental applications.

The mobile app for PowderMet2023/AMPM2023 is now available! With this resource, you get access to the most up-to-date information as well as networking tools, notifications, and more. Get started at https://guidebook.com/g/powdermet2023-ampm2023/ on your mobile device to download the app. (This is a private app and only those registered for the event can gain access.)

Not registered yet? There is still time! Visit PowderMet2023.org or AMPM2023.org to register today.

LIFT, the Detroit-based Department of Defense manufacturing innovation institute, announced it has signed a new Cooperative Agreement with the Department of Defense Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Program to continue to operate the public-private partnership and national manufacturing innovation institute (MII) for the next five years.

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Industry Recovery Ahead
AMAX Bows Out of Copper Powder Business
Glidden Metals Sells P/M Tooling Company
Singer Curtailing P/M Parts Production at West German Plant
Gould to Sell Industrial Group
Gould St. Thomas Expands
Gorham Sponsors Containerless HIP Study
P/M Part-of-the-Year Competition Winners Announced
Philadelphia -A Great Experience
Basic P/M Short Course - June 17-19
P/M Related Patents
People in the News

Car manufacturer Czinger has unveiled a metal AM gearbox that was made using topological optimization. The 7-speed semi-sequential AM gearbox developed with Xtrac, Berkshire, England, was produced without any tooling with an aluminum alloy. The resulting gearbox has better structural performance with significant savings, and is a first for the automotive industry.

NASA has demonstrated a breakthrough in metal additive manufacturing high-temperature materials that could lead to stronger, more durable parts for airplanes and spacecraft.  A team of researchers from NASA and Ohio State University detailed the characteristics of the new alloy, GRX-810, in a paper published in the journal Nature.