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In Italy MIM technology is quite new: Metrocast Italiana has been the first italian company to act as a subcontractor of metal injection moulded parts, back in 1995. The first studies about PIM (powder injection molding) are made in the USA and dates back to the 1920s; they refer specially to CIM (ceramic injection molding). Afterwards, during Second World War, the results of these studies are applied to metal powders (Fe-Ni) and the first metal injection moulded parts are manufactured. Starting from the 1950s also in Russia has been developed a similar process, but only with ceramic powders. Become an industrial process, since 1970 MIM found in the United States more and more applications in those fields where complex shaped and high properties components are required. The process spreads rapidly in Japan, and finally in Europe too.
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