METAL INJECTION MOULDING (MIM)

Country: Singapore
telephone: 65-81-3-5765-4075

Overview

Features

Currently, around the world efforts are being made to complete the fiber optic network. Accompanying this development, there has been a surge in demand for fiber-optic related products made from cobalt materials offering low thermal expansion. In particular, the complex-shaped packages have produced a high demand for low-cost, metal-powder injection molded products over conventional machine-assembled items. Our products have been created drawing on the Company's nearly 10-year track record with MIM technology.

The MIM process, as shown below in the flowchart appearing in Figure 2, is a manufacturing process for mass-producing complicated three-dimensional objects in near-net shapes.

Figure 2: MIM Process Flowchart

1. Molds and Dimensional Precision

Compared with conventional machining products, our products are low-cost, and, as Figure 1 shows, enable the production of complicated three-dimensional forms of near-net shaped sintered bodies. Furthermore, the dimensional precision is 0.5%.

2. Special Features

(1) Low Thermal Expansion
With almost the same thermal expansion coefficient as molten manufacturing materials, it is ideal as an adhesive (See Chart 1.).

Chart 1: Thermal Expansion Coefficient