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2024 Powder Metallurgy (PM) Design Excellence Awards Announced

June 24, 2024

The winners in the 2024 Powder Metallurgy (PM) Design Excellence Awards competition, sponsored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), demonstrate outstanding examples of PM’s diversity and ability to meet critical requirements. From electric vehicles to medical implants, once again, parts fabricators have demonstrated PM’s versatility and unique ability to challenge competing technologies. These award-winning components use PM’s flexibility to push forward new concepts and process controls to demonstrate the inexhaustible range of PM’s capabilities.

Solar Achieves Impressive Results with Sintering Vacuum Furnace

January 4, 2022

In 2021, Solar Atmospheres of Western PA reported that they were retrofitting a vacuum furnace for use in a new Metal Injection Molding (...

One Step at a Time

January 25, 2018

Charles D. Schultz

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Regular readers know that I am a big fan of both the Boy and Girl Scout programs. My children were scouts. My wife and I were scout leaders. One of...

Gear Expo 2017 and ASM Heat Treat 2017 Booth Previews

September 1, 2017

Alex Cannella

The latest technology on display in Columbus, OH. October 24-26.

Powder Metal Magic

August 1, 2012

Capstan Atlantic, located in Wrentham, Massachusetts, produces powder metal gears, sprockets and complex structural components. The company has provided unique powder metal products in a variety of industries including automotive, business machines, appliances, lawn and garden equipment and recreational vehicles.

PM Design Winners Announced at Powdermet 2011

June 1, 2011

Design innovation, superior engineering properties, high end-market visibility and sustainability distinguish the winners of the 2011 Design Excellence awards, the annual powder metallurgy (PM) design competition sponsored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation.

Suitability of High Density Powder Metal Gears for Gear Applications

January 1, 2001

The implementation of powder metal (PM)components in automotive applications increases continuously, in particular for more highly loaded gear components like synchromesh mechanisms. Porosity and frequently inadequate material properties of PM materials currently rule out PM for automobile gears that are subject to high loads. By increasing the density of the sintered gears, the mechanical properties are improved. New and optimized materials designed to allow the production of high-density PM gears by single sintering may change the situation in the future.

Powder Metal Gear Design and Inspection

September 1, 1996

Powder metallurgy (P/M) is a precision metal forming technology for the manufacture of parts to net or near-net shape, and it is particularly well-suited to the production of gears. Spur, bevel and helical gears all may be made by made by powder metallurgy processing.