Application of MIM Technology

Current Situation

Due to the advantage of technology and economic, and the attached great importances to MIM, the MIM products are widely applied on military goods and civilian goods fields. And the MIM factories become more and more. At present, the global annual rate of growth MIM is up to 20%-30%. In 2000, the global gross MIM products market has gotten to $700 million. In 2010, the global gross MIM products market can be increased to $2.4 billion. The application of serve main material of MIM are expending, such as stainless steel, which is a kind of special steel of high alloy content, it has a series of high-performance.

Application

MIM is widely applied to auto parts, mini gun parts, aerospace parts, surgical instruments,orthodontic brackets,  medical machine parts, motor toothbrush gear, watch case, glasses frame, lock cylinder, bushing, surgical machinery, process tools parts, forceps, tweezers, bearing, valves, and so on. The emergence of MIM technology brings a good opportunity for hard alloy material with high melting point. The MIM of cemented carbide products profit is higher than most of Fe-Ni and stainless steel products, the MIM of cemented carbide products can become MIM a new development hot spot after the stainless steel injection molding in 1980s. The MIM processing of cemented carbide had succeeded produce cutter, mini drill, centrifuges, all kinds of pump parts, piston, filter, all kinds of sports parts, golf head, watch case, watchband, and so on.

Development

The ceramic material widely use in defense high-tech industry and civilian industry field, which has a good development potential. But due to the brittleness and high-carbide, it’s hard to produce small volume, complex, high precision ceramic parts use traditional PM processing, which limit the application. And the Metal Injection Molding technology can produce complex and high precision ceramic products, which had produced auto parts, optical fiber connector, hair clipper parts, and so on. Specially the optical fiber connector. With high development of optical communication, the demanded become more and more big, which has a good development potential. With the deeply research and a good returns of the MIM, the MIM products become more and more, also become more and more widely applied, and the value of total market will be steady rise.