Purity Zinc Metals, LLC, (PZM) of Clarksville, TN, USA, has announced the purchase of Advanced Metalworking Practices, Inc. (AMP) of Carmel, IN, USA. Advanced Metalworking is a major supplier of feedstocks for the North American market and internationally ... Read more »

H.C. Starck, of Goslar, Germany, has introduced a new hardmetal (cemented carbide) binder material designated AMPERSINT® MAP which is based on iron and is said to be a cheaper alternative to the cobalt binder normally used. The company states that in add ... Read more »

OM Group, the Cleveland, Ohio, based producer of cobalt powder and specialist nickel powders, has completed the previously announced sale of its nickel business to Norilsk Nickel for $408 million in cash. Norilsk is Russia’s largest mining and metallurg ... Read more »

QinetiQ Nanomaterials Ltd (QNL) is to commission a new small scale production plant in Farnborough, UK, in October 2007 for its range of nanopowders produced by the plasma vaporisation process – the so-called Tesima® process. ‘The new rig will enable Q ... Read more »

DuPont Titanium Technologies, based in Wilmington, Delaware, said to be the world’s largest producer of titanium dioxide (TiO2) – a white pigment used widely in the coatings, plastics and paper industries, has developed a new process for making high-pur ... Read more »

The Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF) has opened the 2008 International PM Design Excellence Awards Competition. The competition recognizes outstanding achievements in the commercial production of powder metallurgy (PM) and metal injection moulded ... Read more »

GKN PLC reported that its powder metallurgy (PM) business, which includes metal injection moulding (MIM) operations at the Bad Langensalza plant in Germany, reports positive progress during the first six months of 2007 with higher sales, profits, and ... Read more »

The September issue of Powder Injection Moulding International has just been published. This feature-packed 64 page issue includes 10 pages of industry news plus the following special features: The Powder injection moulding of cemented carbides: a global ... Read more »

Metal injection moulding (MIM) related presentations are set to be a highlight of the European Powder Metallurgy Association’s annual conference in Toulouse, France, 15-17 October 2007. The following sessions focus on MIM technology and include a speci ... Read more »

GKN plc Powder Metallurgy Division has announced sales of approximately $1.164 billion in 2006. The company is a major supplier of MIM components as well as conventional press and sinter PM parts. Positive sales figures for Europe and Asia were overshadow ... Read more »