New Press Expands Net-Shape Capabilities

摘要

Mii Technologies LLC, West Lebanon, N.H., has expanded its pressing technology to include complex-geometry parts from ceramic materials. The Mii compaction system, which has been used to manufacture parts from metal powder for more than a year, stands a small fraction of the size of a conventional press. Moreover, it uses a unique docking station architecture that allows each press to be plugged into the hydraulic and electric power, digital controls and materials supply needed to operate. According to Mii engineers, ceramic parts have been produced with higher density (at 50 TSI in initial production runs, with a potential of 65 TSI), mechanical uniformity and at net-shape standards not approached previously.