CIM/MIM component for electric motor
Sintex

Sintex a/s is able to offer state-of-the-art technology within the field of powder metallurgy – Metal Injection Moulding (MIM).

This technology combines the material properties and flexibility of powder metallurgy with the design possibilities offered by plastic moulding and enables more complex components to be manufactured than with traditional powder metallurgy. In several cases it is thus possible to produce metal components that are technically impossible to produce by means of other processes.

Unique for the MIM process is the large number of geometrical possibilities. Geometrical advantages that are well-known from plastic injection moulding can be transferred to metallurgy in order to achieve an attractive combination of geometrical possibilities, strength and density in the components. This makes stainless sintered metal an interesting alternative when conventional plastic materials are inadequate for the application concerned.

Components which could not previously be produced in powder metal can now be manufactured – and often in a single process with a better design, higher level of detail and more attractive surface finish as a result.

The unique properties from the traditional sintering process still of course apply to the MIM process. The process ensures optimum corrosion resistance, high density, 100 % impermeability, good weldability, high tolerance, high strength and good formability.