The metal injection moulding (MIM) process combines the design flexibility of plastic injection molding with the strength and integrity of wrought metals to offer cost effective solutions for parts with highly complex geometries.

Our customer one of India’s largest MIM product manufacturing companies, located in South India – realised that uniform blending is the key to their entire MIM process in which fine metal powder less than 20µ particle size has to be blended with thermoplastic and wax binders in precise amounts. The metal powder to binder ratio is approximately 60:40 by volume.

Alphie mixer was used to mix a 35 kg powder batch, which was rotated at 25 rpm. For easy loading and unloading of mixing drum, we also provided a specially designed manual trolley to the customer.