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Monday April 6th 2009

Opening Plenary Session
Chair: R. Felton, Editor of Metal Powder Report

• Professor Zhou Juqiu, President of the China Tungsten Industry Association
  Development status and technology innovation in China cemented carbide industry
  
• Professor Kuen-Shyang Hwang, National University, Taiwan
  Status of PIM business and R&D in Taiwan
• Ingo Cremer, President of EPMA
  PM market situation in Europe
• Professor Randall German, San Diego State University, USA
  Powder metallurgy for automotive applications in the overall context of materials research and market forces
• Dr Cesar Molins, AMES SA, Spain
  PM's contribution to the evolution of the automobile engine

High Performance PM Applications in the Automotive Sector
Chair: D. Whittaker, David Whittaker & Associates, United Kingdom

• Keynote – Philipp Kauffmann, WZL-RWTH Aachen, Germany
  Trends in gear manufacturing
• Gerold Stetina and Bin Gu, Miba Sinter, Austria
  High performance transmission applications
• Mike Wu, Hoganas (China) Co Ltd
  PM materials for gear applications

Developments in Materials for PM Structural Parts
Chair: Dr K.S. Narasimhan, Hoeganaes Corporation, USA

• Dr W B James, Hoeganaes Corporation, USA
  Cost-effective sinter-hardenable ferrous PM materials
• Ray Guo, QMP Metal Powders Ltd., China
  Low-alloyed Mo-steel powders for high performance PM applications
• Jessu Joys, United States Metal Powders, Inc., USA
  An introduction to aluminum Powder Metallurgy (PM) technology
• Paul Skoglund, Hoganas (China) Co Ltd
  New premixes with improved lubrication system

Tuesday April 7th 2009

Production Technology Developments I
Chair: Dr W B James, Hoeganaes Corporation, USA

• Dr K S (Sim) Narasimhan, Hoeganaes Corporation, USA
  Single press high density processes for higher performance powder metal parts
• Ingo Cremer, Cremer GmbH, Germany
  High temperature sintering equipment
• Mark C. Thomason, Gasbarre Products Inc., USA
  Uniform die filling
• Thomas Knutsson, Avure Technologies, Sweden
  Market trends and cost of HIP processing

Production Technology Developments II
Chair: D. Whittaker, David Whittaker & Associates, United Kingdom

• Mark Thomason, Gasbarre Products Inc., USA
  Die wall lubrication
• Louise Chen, Hoganas (China) Co Ltd
  An industry overview of sinter hardening solutions
• Ignace Zwygart, Osterwalder AG, Switzerland
  Improving Overall Equipment Efficiency of powder compaction systems
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Metal Injection Moulding I
Chair: K P Mingard, National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom

• Keynote - Professor Randall German, San Diego State University, USA
  The rapidly emerging market for microminiature MIM medical components and the required technology for participation
• Professor Kuen-Shyang Hwang, National University, Taiwan
  Debinding and sintering problems and solutions of MIM components
• Dr. Wolfram Heinke, BASF Ltd, Hong Kong
  PIM technology in 3C applications - flexibility in a fast changing market
• Keith Murray, Sandvik Osprey Ltd., UK
  Influence of powder type on processing and properties of components manufactured by MIM
• Claus J Joens, Elnik Systems & Satyajit Banerjee, DSH Technologies LLC, USA
  Laminar gas flow and plasma reduces cycle time for Powder Metal Injection Moulded parts

Metal Injection Moulding II
Chair: R M German, San Diego State University, USA

• Uwe Haupt, Arburg GmbH, Germany
  Moulding equipment for micro PIM
• Ingo Cremer, Cremer GmbH, Germany
  MIM: How to match the required production capacity in a continuous furnace
• Dr YiMin Li, Central South University, China 
  Biopsy forceps for minimally invasive surgery by metal injection moulding
• Professor Yunxin Wu, Tsinghua University, China
  Characterisation of injection mouldability of HDH titanium powder

 

Wednesay April 8th 2009

PM High Alloy Steel and Superalloy Developments
Chair: L. Prakash, Unimerco A/S, Denmark

• Keynote – Dr Olle Grinder, PM Technology AB, Sweden
  Recent developments of high-performance PM HSS and tool steels
• Hans Hallen, Uddeholm Tooling, Taiwan
  Application of new PM tool steels for powder compaction tooling
• Jeff Jianwu Zhou, Erasteel, China
  New developments in gas atomized powders

Hard Materials
Chair: O. Grinder, PM Technology AB, Sweden

• Keynote - Dr Leo Prakash, Unimerco A/S, Denmark
  Cutting tool applications of hardmetals
• Dr Ken Mingard, National Physical Laboratory, UK
  Novel characterisation methods for new hardmetal products
• Steven Levesque, Advanced Vacuum Systems Inc., USA
  Sinter-HIP: design codes, fatigue, safety and maintenance
• Eric Brouchard, Tekna Plasma Systems Inc., Canada
  Tungsten carbide (WC) spheroidization by induction plasma technology

Magnetic Applications
Chair: R. Felton, Editor of Metal Powder Report

• Keynote – Professor Hywel Davies, University of Sheffield, UK
  Challenges in the further development of powder processed rare earth-iron-boron magnets
• Professor Yang Luo, IEEE TC-15 Voting Member, China
  Appication of sintered NdFeB magnets
• Dr David Brown, Magnequench Technology Centre, Singapore
  The recent developments with melt spun rare-earth iron boride powder and its permanent magnets
• Dr K S (Sim) Narasimhan, Hoeganaes Corporation, USA
  AncorLam®, a soft magnetic material to replace lamination steels

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