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Metals

Metals

Our Metal Injection Moulding (MIM) facility allows us to supply you with medium and large quantities of complex metal parts at very competitive prices.
These are moulded and sintered metal components with properties near to wrought material; typically >98% density is achieved. Parts can be further enhanced by polishing, plating, heat treating, painting – whatever you would have done with a machined component.

The MIM process is geared to producing close tolerance complex items, in a wide range of metal materials.

  • Stainless and non-stainless steels
  • Steel alloys and nickel-ferrous grades
  • Tool steels and hardenable steels

All these materials are processed in exactly the same way, resulting in finished parts with properties similar or superior to machined or cast parts.
Components are usually manufactured ‘ready for use’, finished to drawing with no additional machining or finishing required. Tight tolerances are achievable, with complex features being ‘moulded in’ as they would be in a plastic moulding. Indeed, the most cost effective MIM part is often the most complex.

Our innovation in action

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Automotive
We moulded a vehicle exhaust flange from 17-4PH stainless steel, offering maximum strength at elevated temperatures and anti-corrosion properties. It replaced an expensive 2-piece welded assembly and incorporates weight reducing features – an important benefit offered by MIM.
Electronics
A direct replacement for a plastic moulding, retaining all of the complexity of the original but now performing as only a metal can. 316L stainless steel was chosen for maximum c resistance. A typical example of plastic-to-metal transfer using the MIM process.
Media
A small complex component used in a corrosion-resistant steel. High dim media equipment.
Medical

We produced some medical components as part of a hand held device that must feel right to the user – this is where MIM comes into its own. The shape-forming ability of MIM materials is as flexible as you can dream up.

Long thin-wall tube structures for use as surgical instruments present no issues to MIM. This 316L stainless steel part incorporated many complex features that would be impossible to produce in volume by conventional metal-working techniques.

You have a new design? Need a new mould? Need extra capacity? Need innovative thinking?

We pride ourselves on being able to take an idea from just a thought to a pre-production sample, and ultimately right through into production.

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Plastic reinvented

HPM is your partner in reinventing manufacturing so you can make the impossible, possible, by continuous development of technological procedures and the use of new materials, whilst delivering world class products and solutions on time, first time, everytime.

Plastic reinvented

HPM is your partner in reinventing manufacturing so you can make the impossible, possible, by continuous development of technological procedures and the use of new materials, whilst delivering world class products and solutions on time, first time, everytime.