Past Projects
Dienet - Thematic Network on Die Compaction Modelling
Powder Processing can offer environmental benefits when compared to other metals forming technologies. However a major drawback is the long delivery times of new tooling. The four year Dienet project was funded by the EU and its 26 partners were involved in a range of projects relating to compaction modelling. One output was the production of the book entitled "Powder Compaction and Modelling".
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EPMA Crack Detection Project
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EPMA Microwave Sintering Project
The first phase of the Microwave Sintering Project, a feasibility study, was successfully finalized end of year 2000. 15 EPMA member companies contributed to the project both financially and by their own technologies. Dr Frank Petzoldt and Dr Barbara Scholz, Fraunhofer Institut IFAM, Bremen and Prof. Monica Willert-Porada and Dipl.-Ing. Ho-Seon Park, University of Bayreuth carried out the microwave sintering experiments and also evaluated the obtained properties of sintered test bars and components.
This study showed that microwave sintering successfully could be applied for sintered steel components. The project continued in a second phase that ended in 2002.
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MIMNET Thematic Network
MIMNET was a European funded thematic network on European Standards for Metal Injection Moulding that ran from 1997 to 2000 and involved 30 partners. Its outputs were a draft European Standard relating to stainless and heat treatable steels, which went forward to CEN (European Standardisation Committee) for approval.
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EPMA Bioavailability Test Programme
"Bioavailability of Powders and Product"
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Tungsten Carbide Powder Characterisation - Nanometre to Micrometre
This club project organised by the European Hard Materials Group is now in its second phase under the control of Dr Brian Roebuck at NPL, London. The first phase was a survey for the Hardmetal Industry performed by Prof Bevis Hutchinson (SIMR) and Dr Olle Grinder (PM Technology AB) on the characterisation of Particle and Grain Size in the Range Nanometre to Micrometre.
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New PIMSIM Project Launched in MIM Sector
January 2007 saw the launch meeting of a new project within the MIM sector. Using pilot funding from regional development agencies the PIMSIM project is coordinated by Dr Rudolf Zauner from ARC Siebersdorf
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New Innovative Metals Processing Centre in UK
A new €10 million research centre for Innovative Metals Processing (the IMP-C) has been set up by the University of Sheffield. It will concentrate amongst other things on the processing of titanium and its alloys by powder metallurgy -specifically by MIM and direct write technologies.
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