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Economy in Car-making - Powder Metallurgy

From Munson Machinery Company, Inc.

Powder metallurgy (PM) has made a major contribution to the technology of automotive manufacture over the past 70 years. It has been and is still the fastest-growing metalworking technology. Today, on average, it provides about 10kg of the total components of a car - more in the US, where cars are larger and use automatic transmissions in nearly all units sold and less in Europe and Japan, where cars need to be lighter and petrol is expensive.

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