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1. Fields of application
There are six of them:
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the automotive industry, the most important market, through the following parts:
top section engines: injector flanges, cams, valve seats and guides, metering wheels, etc,
lower engine: bearing caps, connecting rods, liners, etc,
distributions: pulleys, sprockets, chain sprockets, idlers,
transmissions: ABS ring gear,
gearboxes: synchronizing hubs and bushes, arming fingers, clutch rings, shifters, torque converter hubs, etc,
shock absorbers: guides, bearings, pistons, plugs,
miscellaneous accessories: pump bodies and drives, starter parts (pinions, reducers), alternator and starter...
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Bibliography
Websites
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MPIF – Metal Powder Industries Federation : Princeton (New Jersey USA)
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EPMA – European Powder Metallurgy Association
Standards and norms
- Metal powders – Determination of bulk density – Part 1: funnel method. - ISO 3923-1 - Mai 2008
- Metal powders excluding hard metal powders – Determination of compressibility under uniaxial compression. - EN ISO 3927 - Avril 2011
- Metal powders – Determining the strength of rectangular raw tablets. - DIN ISO 3995 - Mai 1991
- Metal powders – Determination of flow time using a calibrated funnel. - EN ISO 4490...
Directories
Main producers of iron and steel powders
Höganäs (Sweden)
Hoeganaes Corporation – GKN (USA)
Rio Tinto Metal Powders – QMP (Canada)
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