Metal powders are used to produce a variety of industrial parts and products. A number of techniques are used to manufacture parts from metal powders, with two popular techniques being sintering and ...

Advanced PM techniques, such as metal injection molding (MIM), spark plasma sintering (SPS), and hot isostatic pressing (HIP), are referred to as PM processes that employ advanced technologies to ...

An array of powder-metal parts. Powder metallurgy was practiced long before ancient artisans learned to melt and cast iron. Egyptians made iron tools using PM techniques back in 3,000 B.C. The ancient ...

The powder metallurgy process for parts fabrication, as well as the sinterforge process, starts with the uniaxial compaction of metal powder in closed dies, thus imparting shape and initiating ...

Metal 3D printing has had years of success in the moldmaking sector, where new design possibilities for mold tools have supported better performance in the injection molding process. Two main ...