Continuing global success has encouraged powder characterisation company Freeman Technology to relocate into new larger premises based in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire (UK). 12 September 2011
Chrysler Group, Nissan North America and General Motors posted gains of 20% or more to pace the major players in September. Chrysler jumped 27%, giving it 18 straight months of higher volume. Nissan sales rose 25%, led by 28% growth for the Nissan brand. GM increased 20%. 18 October 2011
PLANSEE High Performance Materials has opened PLANSEE Express, an online shop with semi-finished products and standard products for customers in the USA and Canada. 17 October 2011
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Dan Shechtman "for the discovery of quasicrystals." 14 October 2011
As industries such as the auto parts industries transfer their capacities to China, the country's powder metallurgy industry benefits, according to Research and Markets' China Powder Metallurgy Industry Report, 2010-2011. 13 October 2011
AIST in Japan has developed a technology to produce sintered isotropic samarium-iron-nitrogen (Sm-Fe-N) based magnets with properties similar to neodynium-iron-boron (Nd-Fe-B) based permanent magnets. 13 October 2011
ERAMET subsidiary ERASTEEL, has inaugurated a €20 million powder metallurgy gas atomising tower at its Söderfors plant in Sweden. 13 October 2011
Precission Material Chemicals & Technology GmbH (PMCtec) will distribute Yuelong Superfine Metal Powders (YSM)'s fine and superfine metal powders in Europe. 13 October 2011
MDM Engineering Group Ltd (MDM) will exclusively market Atomising Systems Ltd's (ASL) atomising equipment and technology. 13 October 2011
Carpenter Technology Corporation is undertaking a US$30 million (~SEK 200m) expansion of its Carpenter Powder Products facility in Sweden (CPP AB). 06 October 2011