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Hardmetal drill takes top prize
Hardmetal drill takes top prize The 14th annual EPMA Awards took place at last month’s Euro PM2006 Congress and Exhibition in Ghent, showcasing PM’s innovation and excellence. Once again they were sponsored by Metal Powder Report. For the past 13 years the annual awards have promoted “innovation” within the PM industry. A change of format after the Euro PM2005 event, has seen the 2006 EPMA
Winner: Shock absorber piston
Awards for Excellence in Powder Metallurgy encourage excellence as well as innovation, Top prize: Hardmetal drill bit which in turn helped presentation, presided over to foster and encourage the by this year’s chairmen, number of participants at this Philippe Gundermann year’s event. of Eurotungstene Metal The 2006 EPMA Awards Powders, and d’Jeff van der for Excellence in Powder Ven, of ITB Precisietechniek. Metallurgy made for another The awards were presented difficult year for the judges. by EPMA president Cesar Quality levels from all the Molins. entrants were up and the Due to the high standard competition attracted comof entries the judges decided ponents from many industryto jointly award the “Highly leading companies, such as MG miniGears, and last year’s Commended” accolades winners OBE, and Alliance SA, between two deserving companies and products, Ames to name but a few. SA, Spain, for their Journal In a change to the event Bearing and to GKN Sinter format, the Awards presMetals, Germany, for their entation was combined Shock Absorber Piston. with the opening plenary
Korean showcase for ‘06 World Congress Attended by almost 1,000 delegates and guests from 40 countries, the 2006 Powder Metallurgy World Congress in Busan, Korea, focused attention on the growing PM market in Asia. Production of iron and copper-base PM parts increased to 303 000 short tons in 2005, a 7.7 per cent increase over the previous year. The Korean PM industry, the third largest in Asia, is enjoying robust growth. In 2005 the
Data boost
More than 400 new data lines on ferrous structural and bearing materials have been added to the Global Powder Metallurgy Property Database content. For the first time on the GPMPD, users will be able to search ferrous and non-ferrous data
metal-powder.net
But the highly coveted first prize - the Award of Merit went to Hilti AG, Liechtenstein and Ceratizit of Luxembourg for their TE-C3X Drill Bit. The judges said the TE-C3X Drill Bit should take first prize as the world’s first truly massproduced, functionally graded hardmetal part.
Winner: Journal bearing
Consolidation at QMP
industry produced more than 50 000 tons of PM parts, an 18.7 per cent increase over 2004. Korea has 38 PM parts makers and five producers of metal powders. The World Congress, hosted by the Korean Powder Metallurgy Institute, featured 392 oral presentations, 355 poster reviews, and a trade show with 106 exhibitors from 15 countries. See Newsview, Page 6.
Canadian powder maker QMP is to close its European manufacturing plant in Monchengladbach, Germany. QMP purchased the plant from Mannesmann Demag in 1998. The plant provided QMP with a powder annealing and blending capacity of approximately 35,000 short tons. While the closure will be completed by the end of 2007, QMP will maintain a technical/sales office in Europe beyond that time.
European customers will be supplied from the company’s main plant in Canada. “This closure represents a major step for QMP, and it is a decision that has not been taken lightly,” says Martin Thibodeau, president. “However, we feel that consolidating powder production in one facility, in Canada, will enable QMP to become a stronger and more competitive producer of ferrous powders.”
lines. The new additions to the database have increased the total number of searchable lines of data to over 2500. A non-ferrous area containing specific data on structural material is planned to be added to the existing data-
base, which will enable users to compare data between the two main powder categories. The new data lines are planned to go on-line towards the end of 2006. Since the GPMPD launch in 2004, more than 3500 users
from 71 countries have registered. The GPMPD database is a free to access service on the Internet (www.pmdatabase. com) and is available 24/7, which allows registered users everywhere to obtain information as and when they need it.
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Winner: Shock absorber piston
Awards for Excellence in Powder Metallurgy encourage excellence as well as innovation, Top prize: Hardmetal drill bit which in turn helped presentation, presided over to foster and encourage the by this year’s chairmen, number of participants at this Philippe Gundermann year’s event. of Eurotungstene Metal The 2006 EPMA Awards Powders, and d’Jeff van der for Excellence in Powder Ven, of ITB Precisietechniek. Metallurgy made for another The awards were presented difficult year for the judges. by EPMA president Cesar Quality levels from all the Molins. entrants were up and the Due to the high standard competition attracted comof entries the judges decided ponents from many industryto jointly award the “Highly leading companies, such as MG miniGears, and last year’s Commended” accolades winners OBE, and Alliance SA, between two deserving companies and products, Ames to name but a few. SA, Spain, for their Journal In a change to the event Bearing and to GKN Sinter format, the Awards presMetals, Germany, for their entation was combined Shock Absorber Piston. with the opening plenary
Korean showcase for ‘06 World Congress Attended by almost 1,000 delegates and guests from 40 countries, the 2006 Powder Metallurgy World Congress in Busan, Korea, focused attention on the growing PM market in Asia. Production of iron and copper-base PM parts increased to 303 000 short tons in 2005, a 7.7 per cent increase over the previous year. The Korean PM industry, the third largest in Asia, is enjoying robust growth. In 2005 the
Data boost
More than 400 new data lines on ferrous structural and bearing materials have been added to the Global Powder Metallurgy Property Database content. For the first time on the GPMPD, users will be able to search ferrous and non-ferrous data
metal-powder.net
But the highly coveted first prize - the Award of Merit went to Hilti AG, Liechtenstein and Ceratizit of Luxembourg for their TE-C3X Drill Bit. The judges said the TE-C3X Drill Bit should take first prize as the world’s first truly massproduced, functionally graded hardmetal part.
Winner: Journal bearing
Consolidation at QMP
industry produced more than 50 000 tons of PM parts, an 18.7 per cent increase over 2004. Korea has 38 PM parts makers and five producers of metal powders. The World Congress, hosted by the Korean Powder Metallurgy Institute, featured 392 oral presentations, 355 poster reviews, and a trade show with 106 exhibitors from 15 countries. See Newsview, Page 6.
Canadian powder maker QMP is to close its European manufacturing plant in Monchengladbach, Germany. QMP purchased the plant from Mannesmann Demag in 1998. The plant provided QMP with a powder annealing and blending capacity of approximately 35,000 short tons. While the closure will be completed by the end of 2007, QMP will maintain a technical/sales office in Europe beyond that time.
European customers will be supplied from the company’s main plant in Canada. “This closure represents a major step for QMP, and it is a decision that has not been taken lightly,” says Martin Thibodeau, president. “However, we feel that consolidating powder production in one facility, in Canada, will enable QMP to become a stronger and more competitive producer of ferrous powders.”
lines. The new additions to the database have increased the total number of searchable lines of data to over 2500. A non-ferrous area containing specific data on structural material is planned to be added to the existing data-
base, which will enable users to compare data between the two main powder categories. The new data lines are planned to go on-line towards the end of 2006. Since the GPMPD launch in 2004, more than 3500 users
from 71 countries have registered. The GPMPD database is a free to access service on the Internet (www.pmdatabase. com) and is available 24/7, which allows registered users everywhere to obtain information as and when they need it.
November 2006 MPR
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