• Approximately $5 billions sales in North America.
• Iron and Steel: Approximately 400,000 tons produced per year (80% of total)
• US passenger car contains in average about 40lbs of P/M Parts

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Powder Metallurgy (P/M) is a cost-effective method of forming precision net-shape metal components. It uses powder particles of about 30mm in size (smaller than beach sand). The P/Ml process requires precise material characteristics and processing parameters, in order to control of mechanical, geometrical and physical properties of the final components. Those parameters become more critical as the part complexity increases.

The different steps of the P/M manufacturing process can be described below.

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