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For further information Contact:
Tom Pelletiers / Director of Sales & Marketing
Latitude Manufacturing Technologies
1620 Rt 57, Suite C
Hackettstown, NJ 07840
908 813-8282 x204, e-mail: tpelletiers@latitudemanufacturing.com

From Plastics Technology
Metal-Powder Injection Molding Moves Into Larger Parts
By Mikell Knights

No debinding step needed

PTI is looking to develop a greater choice of metal powders and types of binder systems for MIM. Particularly exciting is its work with Latitude Manufacturing Technologies’ agar binder (originally developed by AlliedSignal and Honeywell). This binder is based on water and a gelatin-like material derived from seaweed. There is no need to remove this binder before sintering the green parts, thereby eliminating a formidable technical obstacle. Removing the binder from large, thick-sectioned parts had been one of the biggest hurdles to producing larger MIM parts. All that’s needed with agar binder is a few hours of air drying to evaporate the water that makes up most of the binder’s volume.

As we reported recently (see PT, Dec. ’02, p. 26), RTP Co. has begun offering pelletized versions of MIM compounds made by Latitude from metal powders with agar binder.

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