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Can High-Speed Steel Be Metal Injection Molded? The short answer is yes, but the process demands precision that separates experienced MIM facilities f

What Is Dowel Pins? Got a mold alignment problem that keeps causing flash on your parts? Nine times out of ten, someone's overlooked the dowel pin

What Is Hot Isostatic Pressing Technology for Metal Injection Molded Parts? Anyone who has worked with MIM parts long enough knows the conversation. C

What Is Electroplating? Two years ago we had a batch of 12,000 chrome-plated ABS handles come back from a European automotive customer. Every single p

What is High-Speed Machining? Depends who you ask. Some people treat it like a marketing term-slap "high-speed" on the spec sheet and charge

What Is Stack Mold? A stack mold is basically two or more molds stacked vertically and mounted on one injection machine. Sounds straightforward, but a

What Is Soft Tooling? We get this question a lot from customers who just want a few hundred parts but heard they need to spend $40,000 on a mold. That

What Are the Properties of Feedstock in Metal Injection Molding? Last year we helped a medical device client push a 17-4PH housing down to 0.35 mm wal

What Are Some Common Defects in Metal Injection Molding? MIM defects show up at every production stage. The frustrating part is that root causes usual

What Is Mechanical Bond? Last month a customer sent us a failed part. TPE grip peeled right off the PP handle after three weeks on retail shelves. The

Issues and related information about hot isostatic pressing (HIP) process Issues Related to Hot Isostatic Pressing Process Hot isostatic pressing brin

What are the advantages of hot isostatic pressing (HIP)? Advantages of Hot Isostatic Pressing Process The main reason for using hot isostatic pressing