Fire In The Hole: Good News for Apple’s Prized Molding Material
Its expenses are rising. Its revenues are dropping. But the tide of red ink is not damping enthusiasm at what may be the most important breakthrough technology in injection molding in the 21 Century....
View ArticleLiquidmetal Expands Its IP Around Metal Molding
Liquidmetal Technologies is working on an “eco system” of intellectual property in its efforts to commercialize its amorphous metal injection molding business. “We have patents and applications on...
View ArticleApple May Be Huge Beneficiary Of Liquidmetal Molding Breakthrough
A brand new injection molding technology could have significant implications for Apple’s use of a game-changing Cal Tech-developed amorphous metal technology. Liquidmetal Technologies (LQMT) announced...
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ARC Is Emerging As Power Player In Metal Molding
A powerhouse is quietly emerging in the metal injection molding (MIM) business. A company based in Florida called the ARC Group Worldwide has formed a Precision Components Group, consisting of new MIM...
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Molded Liquidmetal Shows Extreme Dimensional Stability for Missile Component
You’ve come a long way baby. In the late 1930s, the trajectory of Japanese naval aviation design soared higher when Sumitomo Metals Co. developed a special zinc- and chrome-rich aluminum alloy that was...
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Engel, Apple Extend Liquidmetal Deals
Engel has extended its exclusive rights to manufacture and sell injection molding machines for an innovative amorphous metal process that appears to be heading for a bigger role in the production of...
View ArticleMPIF: Metal Molding Will Grow 10-15% This Year
Metal injection molding (MIM) in the United States is growing at a rate of 10 to 15 percent this year, according to a recent economics report from Richard Pfingstler, president of the Metal Powder...
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Biggest Metal Molder Wins With Complex Parts
Metal injection molding (MIM), while still a niche business, continues to makes gains based on its ability to consolidate functions in new designs. Indo‐US MIM Tec of Bangalore, India, garnered the...
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Is 3D Printing Just Lipstick Or The Real Deal for ARC Group?
What is your company worth? The market capitalization of ARC Group Worldwide, a metal and plastic injection molder, has swung wildly in the past 52 weeks. From 2007 through most of 2013, the company’s...
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Engel Commercializes First-Ever Liquidmetal Molding Machine
Engel, the global plastics machinery producer based in Austria, is now offering for public sale the first-ever injection molding machine to produce parts made from amorphous zirconium alloys. Working...
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Who Will Be The First Molder to Embrace Liquidmetal?
What American molder will take the leap and be the first to buy Engel’s newest injection molding machine—an e-motion 110 specially fitted to process amorphous zirconium alloys? Injection molders,...
View ArticleMetal Molding Creates Unique Vertebrae-Like Hinges For Eyewear
Italian designer Guido Medana has developed a new type of eyeglass frame that makes clever used of the metal injection molding (MIM) process. The concept, called the Spine [..]
View ArticleNew Auto Designs Propel Molded Metal
Efforts to reduce weight, cut costs and boost performance in several applications are helping drive a 10 percent growth this year for metal injection molding (MIM). Advanced Materials [..]
View ArticleNew Engineering Standards, Lightweighting Point to MIM, CFRP
Three factors are converging that will have important implications for materials engineering of cars and trucks. All could contribute to greater use of precision molded metals and plastics. [..]
View ArticleWireless Medical Devices Drive Growth at Phillips-Medisize
Phillips-Medisize is investing significantly in new personnel and equipment in response to a trend in drug delivery toward smaller, smarter, wirelessly connected electronic devices. Chris Conger,...
View ArticleApple Develops Parison, Feedstock BMG Technologies
Apple continues to invest in new intellectual property for the injection molding of amorphous liquid metals (aka bulk metallic glasses or BMG) commercialized by Liquidmetal, a Caltech spinoff [..]
View ArticleInsert Molding Plays Key Role In Apple Patent
Apple is studying the potential for use of insert injection molding to create smaller and more secure frames (also known as ground rings) for plug connectors used on [..]
View ArticleApple Applies Vibrations To Improve Molding of Liquidmetal
Apple and Liquidmetal continue to develop new technology for amorphous metals injection molding. Late last year, Apple and Crucible Intellectual Property filed for a patent for the application [..]
View ArticleIs There Still Hope For Liquidmetal Injection Molding?
Patient and long-suffering investors in Liquidmetal Technologies are anxiously awaiting announcement of the company’s fourth quarter earnings next week. Many had bought soon after the company went...
View ArticleCan ARC Breathe New Life Into Thixomolding?
ARC Group Worldwide this month announced development of a new, proprietary thixomolding process that targets one of the process’s leading problems: high costs. No details were provided on [..]
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