News for October 2011

News Archive

Plansee acquires bonding specialist TCB Korea

Plansee Group has acquired bonding specialist TCB Korea Co Ltd for an undisclosed sum.

CS Energy Materials breaks ground for Japan cathode plant

CS Energy Materials Ltd (CSEM), a joint venture between Germany's H.C. Starck and Japan New Chisso (JNC) Corp, has broken ground for a new cathode materials plant in Minamata, Japan.

GKN sees 13% increase in Q3 trading profit

GKN Plc of Redditch, UK, reports a 13% increase in trading profit to £113 million in the third quarter (Q3) of 2011, compared to the same period last year.

Carpenter receives regional economic development funds

Carpenter Technology Corporation of Pennsylvania, USA, is receiving US$5000 in development funding from the Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP/NEP).

Ceradyne receives US$6.9m ceramic body armour order

Ceradyne Inc supply the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) with ceramic body armour under an order worth around US$6.9 million.

EPMA 2011 Distinguished Service Awards to PM Technology and CEIT

The European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA) has awarded its 2011 Distinguished Service Awards to Dr Olle Grinder, Founder of Sweden's PM Technology AB and Professor Francisco Castro of CEIT, Spain.

Euro PM2011 attracted 900 participants

This year's Euro PM Congress in Barcelona, Spain, organised and hosted by the European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA), attracted nearly 900 participants.

Solar nano grinder

Union Process, Inc, of Akron, Ohio, has built a 5-SDM Attritor for a solar technology application.

Erasteel boosts R&D

Erasteel has taken a significant step in strengthening its research and development resource by taking a majority shareholding in Metallied, a company that specialises in small batches of tailor-made powders. Erasteel is a 100% subsidiary of Eramet, the French metallurgy and mining group based in Paris.

PSA feels the heat

PSA/Peugeot-Citroen’s sliding share price has left the French carmaker trading at a record discount to Volkswagen on investor expectations it will be the worst automotive casualty of the region’s sovereign debt crisis, according to Automotive News Europe.

Auto sales surge in US

Chrysler Group, Nissan North America and General Motors posted gains of 20% or more to pace the major players in September. Chrysler jumped 27%, giving it 18 straight months of higher volume. Nissan sales rose 25%, led by 28% growth for the Nissan brand. GM increased 20%.

PLANSEE opens online shop for North American markets

PLANSEE High Performance Materials has opened PLANSEE Express, an online shop with semi-finished products and standard products for customers in the USA and Canada.

Chemistry Nobel Prize goes to Dan Shechtman

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Dan Shechtman "for the discovery of quasicrystals."

Chinese powder metallurgy benefits from auto parts industry

As industries such as the auto parts industries transfer their capacities to China, the country's powder metallurgy industry benefits, according to Research and Markets' China Powder Metallurgy Industry Report, 2010-2011.

ERAMET subsidiary opens powder metallurgy facility in Sweden

ERAMET subsidiary ERASTEEL, has inaugurated a €20 million powder metallurgy gas atomising tower at its Söderfors plant in Sweden.

Sintered isotropic Sm-Fe-N to replace Nd-Fe-B magnets?

AIST in Japan has developed a technology to produce sintered isotropic samarium-iron-nitrogen (Sm-Fe-N) based magnets with properties similar to neodynium-iron-boron (Nd-Fe-B) based permanent magnets.

PMCtec becomes European distributor for Yuelong

Precission Material Chemicals & Technology GmbH (PMCtec) will distribute Yuelong Superfine Metal Powders (YSM)'s fine and superfine metal powders in Europe.

MDM markets ASL's atomising technology

MDM Engineering Group Ltd (MDM) will exclusively market Atomising Systems Ltd's (ASL) atomising equipment and technology.

EPMA publishes Introduction to Hot Isostatic Pressing

The European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA), through its European PM HIP Group, has published a new brochure entitled Introduction to Hot Isostatic Pressing.

Carpenter doubles capacity in Sweden

Carpenter Technology Corporation is undertaking a US$30 million (~SEK 200m) expansion of its Carpenter Powder Products facility in Sweden (CPP AB).

GPI Prototype adds direct metal laser sintering machine

GPI Prototype has installed an upgraded EOSINT M 280 direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) machine from EOS to build metal parts additively.

Hart Metals installs magnesium alloy atomiser

Hart Metals has installed a new atomiser for the development and production of new magnesium alloy powders for military applications at its facility in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania (USA).

Ceradyne delivers ESAPI plates for US military

Ceradyne Inc has received a three-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract for Enhanced Small Armor Protective Inserts (ESAPI) ceramic armour plates from The Defense Logistics Agency Group Support, Philadelphia, PA (USA).