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Dates for Ceramitec 2012
Dates have been announced for the ceramics and powder metallurgy show Ceramitec, to be staged in Munich
Vale Inco strike talks break down
Talks aimed at ending the bitter eight-month strike at Vale Inco’s Sudbury, Ontario, nickel production facility broke down last weekend.
‘New kid’ SB strikes deal with Carpenter
SB Specialty Metals LLC, a new PM player, has struck a supply deal with Carpenter Powder Products after buying the assets of Crucible Service Centers from the bankrupt Crucible Materials Corp.
New separators for tin atomising system
Russell Finex is supplying its range of separators to Atomising Systems Ltd as part of an atomising system for a major tin producer and exporter in China.
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.

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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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Metal Injection Moulding
Dr Satya Banerjee received his Bachelors, Masters and PhD in Metallurgical Engineering specialising in Powder Metallurgy from IIT, Kharagpur, in India. He was a faculty member at IIT, Kharagpur and a v...

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Putting the best light possible on PM's year
Plenty of rhetoric was in the mix in the review of PM in North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific that was delivered in June at the Washington World Congress. Rob Stringer reports on three very different outlooks on the industry…
War on waste in hardmetal weapons production
Most manufacturing processes generate scrap, and even though powder metallurgy is notable for its low scrap production, these days scrap is a valuable commodity. A Tennessee companylooked for economic ways to recycle hardmetal scrap and found a machine that filled the bill, says Bob Seeley…
Thinking big to get the mixture right
Bigger loads of heavy powders for tungsten blends call for machinery to match…
Different approaches give choice in picking appropriate powders
Given the competitive nature of business, especially when times are tough, product differentiation is often the real message behind the anodyne phrases that describe ‘customer choice’…

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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.
Using Molybdenum to Keep Structural Steels on Track
Iron-copper steels are among the most widely used structural powder metallurgy (PM) materials. But although elemental copper additions melt during initial sintering, complete homogenization is not achieved at conventional sintering temperatures and sintering times.
Leaner or meaner: Are Low Alloy Systems Hard Enough?
White paper reports on sinter-hardening response of leaner alloy systems.

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