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Article: Compounding component success: new injection molding compounds are facilitating the use of this high-quality forming technique and providing new opportunities for competitive ceramic component manufacturing.
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- Ceramic Industry
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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Injection molding has long been used by the plastics industry to achieve high volumes of complex-shaped parts. Over the last several years, some industry experts have predicted that the technology would gain significant ground in ceramic manufacturing because of its ability to produce net-shaped or near net-shaped components with high density, uniformity and good mechanical properties. But while ceramic injection molding is widely used in Europe and Asia for a variety of applications ranging from electronics and telecommunications to medical, automotive and aerospace, this shift has yet to happen in the U.S.
One reason might be the sheer complexity of the ...