October 1, 2010
Ford has announced plans to build a US$ 500 million (RMB 3.4 billion) state-of-the-art engine plant in Chongqing, China. Ford’s joint venture, Changan Ford Mazda Automobile Ltd (CFMA) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Chongqing Munici ... Read more »
September 29, 2010
Waikato University and the Titanium Industry Development Association in New Zealand have joined forces to help boost the country’s titanium industry. ... Read more »
September 27, 2010
European commercial vehicle manufacturers are developing an evaluation tool to calculate real-life emissions from trucks and buses ahead of purchase. Market forces play an instrumental role in reducing CO2 emissions from road transport and an accurate CO2 ... Read more »
September 24, 2010
Recognising the importance of innovation and speed to market as key differentiators for medical device OEMs, global industrial group Sandvik has recently invested in rapid prototyping and rapid production capabilities at their European Centre of Excellenc ... Read more »
September 24, 2010
London based gun and rifle maker James Purdey & Sons has unveiled its latest innovation in bespoke gunmaking, a 20-bore over and under game gun, which apart from the stock, is made almost entirely from powder metallurgy formed Damascus Steel. ... Read more »
September 23, 2010
A statement issued by insolvency agency Dr Beck & Partner indicates that a buyer has been found for some divisions of the troubled powder manufacturer ECKA Granules. Following difficult times for the group, US investor Platinum Equity, owners of SCM Metal ... Read more »
September 23, 2010
Hitachi Powdered Metals Co., Ltd. has announced plans to establish a new PM plant in Indonesia. As a newly formed division, ‘Hitachi Powdered Metals Indonesia’ (HMPI) has recently invested 1.3 Billion Yen in the Suryacipta industrial estate near the ... Read more »
September 23, 2010
A series of special interest seminars form a valuable addition to the technical programme of the PM2010 World Congress and Exhibition, taking place in Florence next month. The seminars, open to all registered congress delegates, look at new opportunities ... Read more »
September 20, 2010
Miba AG, headquartered in Laakirchen, Austria, and the Swiss based HOERBIGER Group, have recently announced the transfer of HOERBIGER Drive Technology’s off-road vehicle business to Miba. Over the course of 2011, production of friction discs for off-roa ... Read more »
September 16, 2010
The European Commission granted clearance on 13 September 2010 to the acquisition of Tomkins plc, the UK based parent company of powder metallurgy component manufacturer Stackpole Limited, by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and the Onex C ... Read more »
September 15, 2010
The Western Hemisphere’s first high-temperature (1500° C) continuous production microwave furnace is now fully functional at New York’s NanoMaterials Innovation Center (NMIC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Alfred Technology Resources, Inc. (ATRI), near th ... Read more »
September 14, 2010
ESM Group Inc has broken ground on its new atomised magnesium metal powder production facility in North America. ... Read more »
September 10, 2010
In a joint study published earlier this year, researchers of the Department of Materials Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Ben-Gurion University in Israel evaluated the production of biodegradable magnesium foam by powder met ... Read more »
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