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Injection Molding Metals and Ceramics
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TXM opportunities are real...
...but so is the learning curve.
Requiem for a PIM heavyweight
A molder that failed.
Coaching a comeback
How MIM helped a molder come back.
Can plastics molders manage molding metals?
Yes, if they bring intelligence to the market.
Feedstocks: To buy, or not to buy?
Gauging the decision to make your own feedstocks.
IMMC resources
Where to look for help with IMMC.
An introduction to injection molding metals and ceramics
Here are the basics, plus links to a complete glossary and resource list.
Injection molding metals and ceramics glossary
Complete glossary of terms used in these processes.
Why mold only plastics?
This special report by Carl Kirkland answers that question.
Growth through synergistic acquisitions
Eight acquisitons make a global power.
King of the TXM computers
Magnesium computer housings put this molder on the map.
A customer's prescription for MIM precision
What the medical market is looking for in MIM.
How PIM can become a business
How to find customers for PIM.
Starting out on top
How one MIM molder has grown his business.
Sometimes it pays to be small
Low-volume production can pay off.
Nypro's getting metallized
A top-of-the-line molder enters the fray.
Razzle-dazzle marketing for metal injection molding
Aggressive marketing by a medical molder.
TXM part design guidelines
Tolerances are one key to successful part design.
CAE simulation software for IMMC
Optimizing metal and ceramic molding through software.
Cost vs. complexity
Guidelines for choosing a metal molding process.
MIM part design guidelines
A roadmap for product designers.
MIM standards are coming
Harmonized design standards will benefit end users.
Application Showcase
A sampling of the wide variety of parts now being injection molded.
Materials for IMMC
TXM and PIM feedstocks, PIM powders.
PIM needs better molds
As always, quality starts with the tool.
Will TXM hot runners improve yield for metal molders?
There's a lot of waste with cold runner molds.
TXM tools look like molds, but are built like dies
TXM tooling shares a lot with diecasting.
Rapidly sintered tools form a new sintering center
Rapid tooling, from sintered metals, for sintered metals.
Runnerless metal molding molds
Design tips for metal molding tools.
Tooling up for CIM?Tool up for challenges
Wear resistance is a major problem.
Outgrowing TXM secondaries
Automation will help cut secondary operations.
IMMC Plant Tour: Keeping tolerance over time
Citizen Watch shows how it stays No. 1.
Photo tour of AMT's MIM operation in Singapore
A trans-Pacific Kinetics-AMT connection...
New product showcase
New products for IMMC processes.
PIM feedstock tips
Advice on compounding techniques for powdered materials.
Working to optimize screws and barrels
The whole world is focusing on this issue.
It takes maximum effort to minimize variability
Quality is everything in metal molding.
Magnesium molding maestros
A profile of a leading TXM molder.
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