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Plastics News, January, 2001

Honeywell works with NIST for plan MINNEAPOLIS -- Honeywell Laboratories in Minneapolis is leading a new national program to develop metal injection molding for big, complex parts, working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Under MIM, powdered metal is injected into a mold to form a metal part similar to metal parts made by traditional metal-forming methods such as casting, forcing and machining, which are labor-intensive.

"MIM is an important, emerging technology for the U.S.," said Ken MacFadden, director of Honeywell's Materials Laboratory. "We're already commercially supplying small parts made using this technology, but the defect rate on larger, more complex parts -- like industrial and automotive components -- is far too high....

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