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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...