An Approach to Cost Effective Low Alloyed Materials for MIM
One of the growth limiting factors for the MIM industry is said to be the material price. The relative material cost is lower for a smaller part compared to a larger. One way to decrease cost is to use coarser materials (larger particles), but normally larger particles do not sinter as good as small. This paper describes an alternative approach to enable the use of coarser materials by selecting alloys with ferrite stabilising elements and sinter them in ferritic phase.
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