Design technical
This page includes useful information for purchasers, designers and technical staff and includes a detailed design guide and MIM tolerance chart.
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Material
This section details the range of ferrous metals available for metal injection moulding and has a useful table of mechanical properties and chemical analysis.
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MIM process
This section explains the MIM process, stage by stage and also shows the comprehensive manufacturing facilities at Metal Injection Mouldings Ltd.
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Who We Are
Our Group is a privately owned organisation, with three manufacturing companies dedicated to the manufacture of high quality metal components to suit the most demanding requirements of customers in every sector of industry.
METAL INJECTION MOULDINGS LTD use a process similar to plastic injection moulding, but with the ability to make precision metal components in a range of carbon steels, stainless steel, nickel and cobalt alloys, tool steels and magnetic alloys. The MIM process complements investment castings by offering complex shapes with close tolerances, a smooth finish and finely reproduced detail, all combined with excellent mechanical properties
P.I. CASTINGS LTD have 60 years experience in producing high quality precision investment castings and provide a one-stop shop for aluminium or steel castings, rapid prototypes or fully machined parts. P.I. Castings Ltd supply to all types of industries, including general engineering, medical, electronics, aerospace and defence. Go to PI Castings website
TURBOTECH PRECISION PRODUCTS LTD manufactures compressor wheel castings in aluminium alloys for automotive turbochargers. Turbo Tech operates a very specialised precision casting process and supplies high technology compressor wheels particularly for the heavy vehicle turbocharger market in Europe, the Far East, USA and South America. Go to Turbo Tech Precision Products website
What we Do
Metal Injection Moulding combines the well-established technologies of powder metallurgy and injection moulding to produce components in steels and high strength metals with complex shapes, close tolerances, a smooth surface finish and finely reproduced detail.
The following summarises what we can offer, whilst more detail can be found on the Design/Technical pages.
- DIMENSIONAL TOLERANCES ~ Generally ± 0.05mm on a 10mm dimension
- SURFACE FINISH ~ A fine finish around 1.6 microns.
- QUANTITIES ~ Typically 20,000 or more per year.
- SIZE RANGE ~ Generally from less than 3mm to 50mm
- MATERIALS ~ Carbon steels; stainless steels; tool steels; nickel and cobalt alloys.
- APPROVALS ~ BS EN ISO 9001:2008
- TOOLING ~ Similar to plastic injection moulding.
More detailed information on applications, markets, quality and facilities can be found on the above pages
Forthcoming Exhibitions
- Southern Manufacturing 2012
- 15-16 February 2012 (17:00)
- Farnborough
- See us on Stand M66
