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If you haven’t already, now’s the time to add or renew your company details for the Metal Powder Report World Buyers’ Guide.
Metal Powder Report 2010 Buyers’ Guide – deadline extended to 23rd July
We are soon to publish the Metal Powder Report 2010 Buyers’ Guide. However, without your entries, it is nothing! Make sure your company is listed in this invaluable reference guide for the powder metallurgy industry.
PM awards announced
The European Powder Metallurgy Association has announced its ‘Awards for Excellence in Powder Metallurgy’ competition for 2010, which this year will be sponsored by Metal Powder Report magazine.
Harbec Plastics offers extended DMLS manufacture
Harbec Plastics, Inc, based in Ontario, NY, US, has upgraded its direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) machine to run stainless steel, cobalt chrome, maraging steel, directmetal20 and titanium.
Slow recovery for 2010
According to a new statement Michael E. Lutheran newly elected president of the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), the PM industry faces a slow recovery in 2010, but will return to its previous strength.

The growing pull of magnets
China has the world-leading position in rare earth magnets. But things vare changing as the realisation sinks in of the vital commercial and strategic importance of these unseen and unremarked assets...
Powder Metal Markets
How the various regions of the world have fared in recession and current trends in the last quarter.

A month for Trade Fairs
Almost like waiting for a bus, when one trade show comes into view in October, there's another one almost directly behind it. First up this month is EuroPM2009, the established European annual PM fest, this year being staged in Copenhagen from 12 – 14 October. But following close behind comes Ceramitec (20 – 23 October) in Munich.
Meet in the Capital of Cool
It has been a little while coming, but this year the European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA) has chosen arguably the coolest, most cosmopolitan, and most exciting city in Scandinavia to stage its annual conference and exhibition, EuroPM 2009.
And with one bound…
And with one bound, Jack was free… Such was the good fortune of the comic-book hero of childhood when faced with insuperable odds. To find a parallel in the grown-up and grimmer world of engineering reality, you probably only have to look as far as the lightning Chapter 11 bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler. Both have been achieved at a price.
REACH and animal tests
The vexed topic of animal testing and the European REACH environmental legislation has surfaced again with sharp exchanges of views and new questions over costs.

Attritors and Ferrite Grinding Applications
In today's electronic world, the demand for high quality ferrite products is rising rapidly. There are several types of ferrites and the preparation of all these are similar; the principal difference is in the raw material used.

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