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• Toyota invests additional $391 million in San Antonio truck assembly plant

  September 18, 2019

  Toyota Motor North America has reaffirmed its commitment to invest $13 billion in its US operations over five years through 2021 with the injection of $391 million of funds into its truck assembly plant in San Antonio»

• PMAI's Powder Metallurgy Short Course to take place this month

  September 18, 2019

  The Powder Metallurgy Association of India (PMAI), Mumbai, is organising a Powder Metallurgy Short Course (PMSC 19) which will run from September 26–29 in the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science»

• Ricardo issues call for papers for its Virtual Engineering 2020 conference

  September 17, 2019

  Global strategic engineering and environmental consultancy Ricardo plc, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, UK, has announced that it will for the first time hold its Virtual Engineering 2020 conference in March 25–26»

• UK's IOM³ seeks 2020 award nominations

  September 17, 2019

  The UK’s Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) is seeking nominations for its 2020 awards. Of particular interest to the Powder Metallurgy sector is the institute's Ivor Jenkins Award»

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Fukuda Metal Foil and Powder Co., Ltd: Three hundred years of metal powder production in Japan

For over three hundred years, Fukuda Metal Foil and Powder Co., Ltd, has manufactured metal powders in Kyoto, Japan. As one of the oldest metal powder producers worldwide, the company has a rich history and continues to develop new materials and processes to meet present-day challenges.

International PM consultant Dr Yoshinobu Takeda visited Fukuda and reports on the company’s past and present as an innovator in the global metal powder industry.

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Nichols Portland: The world’s first manufacturer of gerotors continues to innovate

As the world’s first manufacturer of gerotors and gerotor pumps, Nichols Portland has more than 85 years of continuous experience in the manufacturing, design, application, testing and validation of these products. Although Nichols Portland is known globally for its fluid transfer technology, the company also supports industries with a range of PM components.

In this report, Randy Lessard, the company’s VP / General Manager, reviews the history of Nichols Portland and discusses its commitment to producing precision PM components.

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MPIF’s 2019 PM Design Excellence Award winning parts highlight wide variety of applications

The winners in the 2019 Powder Metallurgy Design Excellence Awards competition, sponsored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation, were announced during the POWDERMET2019 International Conference on Powder Metallurgy and Particulate Materials, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, June 23–26, 2019.

Here, we present the Conventional ‘press and sinter’ PM components that received either Grand Prizes or Awards of Distinction.

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