The European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA) has developed a new four-page educational leaflet for potential users of the powder metallurgy hot isostatic pressing (HIP) technology.
25 November, 2010
Researchers in Japan have developed tungsten carbide contacts that help improve the strength of metal-carbon nanotube junctions.
25 November, 2010
A US company has developed underwear with inserts formed of tungsten and other metal powders that, it says, ensure privacy against airport x-ray machines.
25 November, 2010
US powder metal giant Hoeganaes Corporation has moved decisively to focus on its activities in China with the opening of a new marketing support facility on the south bank of the Yangtze River near the city of Zhenjiang in Jiangsu Province, about 70km from Nanjing.
22 November, 2010
Diran Apelian, founder of the Metal Processing Institute of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), based in Massachusetts, USA, has been awarded the US Materials Advancement Award.
17 November, 2010
The American who discovered the world’s biggest copper deposit in Chile has staked a claim in Paraguay to what he says may be the largest titanium find, according to Bloomberg News.
17 November, 2010
Russian nickel giant Norilsk Nickel’s polar division, the company’s biggest earner in the past decade, will spend $20 billion by 2030 to maintain production levels, according to its director, Yevgeny Muravyov.
17 November, 2010
Sandvik Coromant has developed a free machining calculator app for iPhone and Android Smart phones.
12 November, 2010
The Special Metals Forum (SMF), the membership arm of South Yorkshire, UK-based NAMTEC (the National Metals Technology Centre), has appointed Peter Birtles as its chairman.
12 November, 2010
Century, Inc, a manufacturer of precision steel components based in Traverse City, Michigan, USA, has cast the first ever light-weight, aluminium metal matrix composite (MMC) brake drum for a military vehicle.
11 November, 2010
A €1.9m (£1.6m) EU project to characterise the properties of steels with nanoparticle additives has the involvement of researchers at the Kelvin Nanocharacterisation Centre at Glasgow University in the UK.
11 November, 2010
Thermal equipment specialist Surface Combustion Inc, based in Maumee, Ohio, USA, has installed a new Allcase batch integral quench furnace line at a thermal processing plant.
11 November, 2010
Global engineering specialist GKN plc has reported a third quarter sales increase of 34% compared with last year in its automotive (Driveline and powder metallurgy) business.
11 November, 2010
Parmatech-Proform Corporation, a subsidiary of metal components specialist ATW Companies Inc has opened its new metal injection moulding (MIM) facility in East Providence, Rhode Island, USA. The opening ceremony took place on 21st October.
04 November, 2010
Research organisation Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, based in Freiburg, Germany, has won the European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO) Innovation Prize for its work developing solar cells.
04 November, 2010
The 2011 atomising course run by Perdac and Sheffield-based Atomising Systems Ltd (ASL is to be held in Central Manchester, UK, on 3-4 March.
04 November, 2010