As composites practitioners well know, tooling for composite parts is a challenge. Metal tools are the most robust option and support rate production, but they need to be carefully engineered to match ...

Have you put an oven in your garage yet? You may want to when you see what you can cook up at home now.Powder coatinghas long been recognized as the first choice in finishes for many four-wheeler ...

Here’s a quick overview of different PM processes that can be found at Metal Powder Industries Federation's site, www.mpif.org (select Intro to PM and then processes). For an in-depth discussion of ...

Manufacturers have had the capability to spray a powder finish on wood for some time now. But few manufacturers are taking the initiative to provide information about the process, as well as the ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Metalworking shop Brent James Designs is giving furniture and accessories new life through the powder coating process. Powder coating is an extremely durable painting process, ...

Being gifted with seeing all the colors of the light spectrum, humans started coloring things since ancient times, using different combinations of plant and rock dies. Now, we have dozens of solutions ...

An array of powder-metal parts. Powder metallurgy was practiced long before ancient artisans learned to melt and cast iron. Egyptians made iron tools using PM techniques back in 3,000 B.C. The ancient ...

Thanks to a rotating platform, a new 3D metal printer can deposit and fuse metal powder in a single step, thereby working faster than conventional machines. The system can process two different metals ...