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  • Metal Powder Report 2010 Buyers’ Guide – deadline extended to 23rd July
    We are soon to publish the Metal Powder Report 2010 Buyers’ Guide. However, without your entries, it is nothing! Make sure your company is listed in this invaluable reference guide for the powder metallurgy industry.
  • PM awards announced
    The European Powder Metallurgy Association has announced its ‘Awards for Excellence in Powder Metallurgy’ competition for 2010, which this year will be sponsored by Metal Powder Report magazine.
  • Harbec Plastics offers extended DMLS manufacture
    Harbec Plastics, Inc, based in Ontario, NY, US, has upgraded its direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) machine to run stainless steel, cobalt chrome, maraging steel, directmetal20 and titanium.
  • Slow recovery for 2010
    According to a new statement Michael E. Lutheran newly elected president of the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), the PM industry faces a slow recovery in 2010, but will return to its previous strength.
  • Lutheran to head MPIF
    Michael E Lutheran, vice president of United States Metal Powders Inc (USMP), based in Flemington, New Jersey has been elected president of the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF) and Barton White, president of SCM Metal Products Inc, of Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, was elected president of the Metal Powder Producers Association (MPPA).
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  • The growing pull of magnets
    China has the world-leading position in rare earth magnets. But things vare changing as the realisation sinks in of the vital commercial and strategic importance of these unseen and unremarked assets...
  • Powder Metal Markets
    How the various regions of the world have fared in recession and current trends in the last quarter.
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Features

  • A month for Trade Fairs
    Almost like waiting for a bus, when one trade show comes into view in October, there's another one almost directly behind it. First up this month is EuroPM2009, the established European annual PM fest, this year being staged in Copenhagen from 12 – 14 October. But following close behind comes Ceramitec (20 – 23 October) in Munich.
  • Meet in the Capital of Cool
    It has been a little while coming, but this year the European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA) has chosen arguably the coolest, most cosmopolitan, and most exciting city in Scandinavia to stage its annual conference and exhibition, EuroPM 2009.
  • And with one bound…
    And with one bound, Jack was free… Such was the good fortune of the comic-book hero of childhood when faced with insuperable odds. To find a parallel in the grown-up and grimmer world of engineering reality, you probably only have to look as far as the lightning Chapter 11 bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler. Both have been achieved at a price.
  • REACH and animal tests
    The vexed topic of animal testing and the European REACH environmental legislation has surfaced again with sharp exchanges of views and new questions over costs.
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Downloads

  • Hollow metal spheres put Fraunhofer on a roll
    Producing metallic hollow spheres is complicated. Up to now it has not been possible to make the small sizes required for new high-tech applications. However, for the first time researchers at one of Germany’s premier research institutes have manufactured ground hollow metal spheres measuring between just two to 10 millimetres.
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    ERP is a strategic investment. Download this free Buyer's Guide and get all the information you need to ensure success.
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  • 2010 Enterprise Phone Systems Requirements Toolkit
    In the market for a new enterprise-class phone system? This Toolkit has everything you need to choose the right system for your business.
  • The Tangled Web: Silent Threats & Invisible Enemies
    In a 2009 report, MessageLabs Intelligence revealed that an average of 3,618 new Websites per day were identified as harboring malware and other potentially unwanted programs such as spyware and adware.
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