The Scale of Global Powder Injection Molding Industry Isn’t Big Enough

Powder injection molding is a combination of plastic injection molding, high polymer chemistry, powder metallurgy with metal materials technology, achieving metal parts with high density, high accuracy, and complex geometry, from metal powders, which is able to turn design idea into products quickly, and is a new revolution of manufacturing industry.

Nowadays, the scale of metal injection molding is not big enough, and there is a big room for the development of metal injection molding, however, which has not been affected by economic crisis. In Europe, powder injection molding is mainly in cars. Its application is medical industry in North America. And in Asia, its application is communication products. In future, powder injection molding will be developed mainly in materials and processes, and then broaden its application industry.

Compared with conventional technology, powder injection molding could achieve higher accuracy, more uniform structure, better properties, and lower cost, which is applied mainly in electronic information program, biological medical devices, automobiles, machinery, weapons, and so on. The scale of powder injection molding is not big enough, but it’s still regarded as the hottest manufacturing technology of metal parts.