April 2021

2021 Newsletter

ThaiPMA 2020 Activities
Update Situation

Asian Powder Metallurgy Association• Due to COVID-19, ThaiPMA decided to postpone the physical event in 2020.
• However, we are still working on our main purpose to promote PM industryin Thailand.

Activities 2020-1 PM School Training at end-user

Activities 2020-4 Metallography Training at End-user• On 15 April 2020
• At Toyota Daihatsu Engineering and Manufacturing• On site training and in-situ teleconference• Totally 10 participants from TDEM

• On 22 and 25 September 2020
• At Toyota Daihatsu Engineering and Manufacturing (TDEM)• On-site training with metallography training with TDEM lab equipment• 4 participants join the training.

• Mr. Bhanu, and Mr. Tharanon as the Speaker from ThaiPMA

Japan JPMA

Japan JSPM

Activities 2020-2 Online PM School• From 18-19 June 2020
• Teleconference to company site (Thai carbon and graphite – TCG) due
to Covid-19 incident.
• Totally 25 participants from TCG participate this training• Mr. Tharanon and Ms. Palida as the speaker from ThaiPMA.

Activities 2020-5 PM Handbook in Thai language• Published the PM Handbook from Asst. Dr. Sarum at Suranaree University ofTechnology (SUT).
• The team of three people including Dr. Sarum, Mr. Bhanu, and Mr. Tharanon
were selected as the editor from ThaiPMA.
• The 400-page handbook was published on November 2020.
• Now available at Book store.

Korea KPMI

Taiwan TPMA

India PMAI

The impact of the new coronavirus is far beyond our
prediction and understanding. After a year of hard work,
although countries have begun to introduce a vaccine, themutation and infection rate of the virus are still not known.
We have to speed up our pace and work together to tideover the difficulties.

Metallography Training-Photos
PM Training-Photos

Connect with us

Chu, Chiu-Lung

I am very happy to see that APMA members are still
committed to exchanges and information sharing in PM
as usual. In August of 2020, we started to cooperate withMPIF and EPMA to establish a database about PM andupdate it regularly (https://www.epma.com/membersdirectory or https://my.mpif.org/MPIF/directory). Users canChina CPMS

China CPMA

Thailand Thai PMA

learn much more about technical information through thisplatform. In the future, we will also assist in the integrationof corporate information to make the usefulness of PM
wider and deeper.
In addition, Taiwan Powder and Powder Metallurgy
Association will be celebrating the 40th anniversary thisyear, and the association has begun various preparations
for celebration. The celebration meeting will be scheduled
for Oct. 15 and 16, 2021. It is hoped that the epidemic willslow down by then, business activities resume, and I canmeet you in Taiwan to reminisce about the past!

No.1, Zhongpu Street, Zhunan Township,
Miaoli County 350028, Taiwan
Secretary General: Ms. Emily D Tsai
E-mail: emilyt@apma.asia
TEL: +886-37-581-121 Ext. 274
FAX: +886-37-581-128
www.apma.asia

President
Asia Powder
Metallurgy Association

JPMA Activity of 2020

PM Training(Teleconference)-Photos

Powder Metallurgy Handbook: Photos

Activities 2020-3 In-house PM School

Planned Activities 2021

• On 23 and 30 June 2020
• On-site training at Sumitomo Electric Sintered Component (T)• Totally 30 participants join the training• Mr. Tharanon and Ms. Palida as the speaker from ThaiPMA• Create online learning material for PM School• 3 x in-house PM School at PM companies (upon request).
• 1 x Metallography School• ThaiPMA AM/PM Award• 3 x Board meeting for member

PM Training-Photos

On January 20, 2020, we held a New Year greeting party
at Inter Continental Tokyo Bay. A total of about 200 people
participated, including guests from the Ministry of Economy,
Trade and Industry, Japan Society of Powder and Powder Metallurgy, relatedorganizations, seniors and members, and award winners who attended
the JPMA Awards Ceremony. After that, with the expansion of Covid-19, allevents and seminars were held on the Web. 16th PM Information Exchange
Meeting(Mar.)• 2021 JPMA General Assembly(May)• JPMA Special Session at the JSPM Spring Meeting(Jun.)• 9th Human resources development seminar(Jul.)• 39th Case Studies of Production Efficiency Improvement Meeting and the 		24th Metal Powder and Equipment PR Meeting(Nov.)

Thailand Powder Metallurgy Association Room MP201
National Metal and Materials Technology Center (MTEC)
114 Thailand Science Park (TSP), Phahonyothin Road,
Khlong Nueng, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand
E-mail: pramote-eiangkhunchorn@gr.sei.co.jp
TEL: +6638-469-555 FAX: +6638-469-568
www.thaipma.org

2020 New Year Greeting Party(Jan.)

Ceremony of Awarding Various Honors(Recognition of Superior Employees)(Jan.)

2-16 Iwamoto-cho 2-chome, Chiyoda-Ku,
Tokyo 101-0032, Japan
E-mail: info@jpma.gr.jp
E-mail: y-uetsuki@jpma.gr.jp
TEL: +81-3-3862-6646
FAX: +81-3-5687-0599
www.jpma.gr.jp

Main activities of 2020 of CPMA

Ceremony of Awarding Various Honors (JPMA Award, Development prize
Grand Prix Finesinter & TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION)(Jan.)

Ceremony of Awarding Various Honors (Industry Achievement Award,
Mr.Isamu Kikuch)(Jan.)
2020 Powder Metallurgy Technology and Applications (Guangzhou) Forum

JSPM Activity of 2020
Our activities in 2020 were severely restricted by COVID-19
like any other associations. Most activities have changed fromreal to virtual.

of JSPM is published on the official website of J-STAGE (https://www.jstage.
jst.go.jp/browse/jjspm). Everyone can read all the abstracts and references.
However, only our members can read all the PDF files of the papers using ID
and PW within 6 months after publications.

Annual Meeting

We hold the Spring Meeting and the Autumn Meeting every year. Last spring
meeting was scheduled to hold in Waseda University in May. Unfortunately, it
had been cancelled it by COVID-19.
In the autumn meeting case, an online meeting was held in October from 27th
to 29th. The number of presentations is 159. The methods of presentation are
the on-demand video presentation, the on-demand slide presentation, and thepresentation only with the abstract pdf.
On-demand presentations may have some troubles. They may be captured,copied by recording, downloaded, and so on, in cases of the on-demand
videos and slides. Although various prevention functions are added, thesecaptures cannot be completely prevented. We only relied on the morals of theparticipants. Participants have some good opinions. They can watch videos andslides at their own pace. They can use their time effectively. Some people said
that they can see the materials on the PC better than the actual venue screen.
But it was difficult to make the Q&A between the presenter and the participant.

The 2020 East China Powder Metallurgy Technology Exchange Meeting

Power Metallurgy Seminar

Every year, we hold “Powder Metallurgy Seminar”. It is consisted of“Introduction”, “Basic”, and “Application”. There contain 4 lectures, respectively.
In 2019, we held 3 seminars in the real venue. However, due to the covid-19
in 2020, all these three seminars were held in a hybrid form, with participants
selecting to be in the venue or to attend in an on-line form. So, we prepared 2
ways to attend the seminar through the web or at the real venue, in so called
hybrid way. More than half of the participants attended through the web. We
received the questions from both participants in the venue and on line. Q & A
in the seminar have been done very smoothly. We expect the participants had
deep understandings of powder metallurgy.

2nd South China International Summit on Technology and Application of Injection Molding and Additive Manufacturing

New activity scheduled in 2021 of CPMA

Journal of the Japan Society of Power and Powder Metallurgy

We published the monthly journal, volume 67. The 66 papers were publishedin our journal in 2020. Some following special issues were planned, “Control
and Manipulation of Microstructure in Magnetic Materials for Functional
Devices”, “New Development of Powder Processing under Eternal Fields”,“High-performance Electronic Components and Materials for Smart Society”,“Additive Manufacturing 3D Printing Technology and HIP/CIP”, and “Progress ofEngineering and Research for Future Development of Hard Materials”. Journal

c/o Research Institute for Production Development,
15 Morimoto-cho, Shimogamo, Sakyo-ku,
Kyoto 606-0805, Japan
E-mail: inoue@jspm.or.jp
E-mail: y-uetsuki@jpma.gr.jp
TEL: +81+75-721-3650 FAX: +81+75-721-3653
www.jspm.or.jp

1. 10th Anniversary of the CPMA
2. 1st Formnext + PM South China
3. 2021 Powder Metallurgy Technology and Applications Forum
4. The 2021 East China Powder Metallurgy Technology Exchange Meeting
5. The 14th Int’l Exhibition for Powder Metallurgy, Cemented Carbides and Advanced Ceramics
6. 3nd South China International Summit on Technology and Application of Injection Molding and Additive Manufacturing
7. Release of 2020 Powder Metallurgy Blue Paper
8. Seminar on big data and standards of Powder Metallurgy

No.76, Xueyuan South Road, Haidian
District, Beijing 100081, China
E-mail: shmzhang@cisri.com				hanw@cisri.com.cn
TEL: +86-106-2182168		+86-106-2182468
FAX: +86106-2188076
www.cpma.com.cn

2020 Activites

Academic Activities from CPMSth

A 16 ISNNM-2020 (International Symposium on Nanoand Novel Materials) was held at Phoenix Jeju in Jeju from
November 3 to 6. The ISNNM-2020 is an International
Conference organized by KPMI(Korean Powder Metallurgy Institute). It was
first started in Korea in 2007 and is held every 2 years. A 16 th ISNNM-2020
was organized by KPMI and co-hosted by TU Wien, Austria and Institute of
Metallurgy & Materials Science, Poland. The event was originally scheduled totake place in TU Wien, Austria in early July 2020, but was canceled in Austria
due to global pandemic of Covid-19. So, the event was canceled in Austria. The
16th ISNNM-2020 was held Incorporating with the 54 th Conference of Korean

The activity of 2020

The Symposium on Microstructure Characterization and Research of Advanced
Materials, held by State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy in Central South
University and Thermo Fisher Scientific, aimed to promote communications
and cooperation among experts and scholars and further improve their skills
on microstructure characterization and novel material design. The ongoing andfuture frontier development of advanced material characterization techniques,
such as imaging, spectroscopy and in-situ methods were profoundly
discussed during the symposium. This symposium invited famous experts in
microstructure characterization and material research fields to give keynote
talks as well as Thermo Fisher Scientific company to show its new products anddevelopment on techniques.

Powder Metallurgy Institute from November 3 to 6, 2020 at Jeju, Korea.

16 International Symposium on Novel and Nano MaterialsthIncorporating the Fall Conference of Korean Powder
Metallurgy Institute

Period : Phoenix Jeju, Korea
Venue : 3-6 November, 2020

New President

Name : Prof. Yong-Ho Choae-mail : choa15@hanyang.ac.kr

2021 Activites
Korean Powder Metallurgy Institute Spring Conference
Period : 1-2 April, 2021
Venue : Yeosu Expo Convention Center, Yeosu , Korea

The new activities scheduled in 2021
No.

1

2

Category

Conference Name

Domestic
academic
exchange

The Sixth Conference on
special powder metallurgy
and composite material
preparation / processing

Domestic
academic
exchange2021 national powder
metallurgy conference
and 2021 coastal
powder metallurgy
technology seminar

Scale(Numberof people)

＞300

＞1000

Conference Date

2021/112021/7-2021/8

Host City

To bedetermined

Changsha,
Hunan

Main Content
In the conference, the developments
and achievements of the special Powder
Metallurgy and composite materials
will be presented and discussed, theadvanced production processing will besummed, some typical living cases will
be presented and compared. It aims to
improve the production and processing of
nonferrous metal and composite materials.

3rd International Symposium on Innovation in Materials
Processing
Incorporating the Fall Conference of Korean Powder
Metallurgy Institute
Period : ICC Jeju, Korea
Venue : 2-5 November 2021

This conference aims to help thecommunication and cooperation between
researchers working on Powder Metallurgy,
and promote the future development of
Powder Metallurgy industry in China.

Powder Metallurgy Research Institute,
Central South University,\No. 932, Lushan South Road,
Changsha Hunan Province 410083, P.R. China
E-mail: yonliu@csu.edu.cn
TEL: +86-731-88830417 FAX: +86-731-88830417
Under construction, or tentatively visit SKLPM
www.sklpm.csu.edu.cn

Korean Powder Metallurgy Institute
Unit 706, (635-4, Yeoksam-Dong) 22, 7-gil, Teheran-ro,Gangnam-gu, 06130 Seoul, Republic of Korea
E-mail: kpmi@kpmi.or.kr
TEL: +82-2-539-4603 FAX: +82-0303-0947-4603
www.kpmi.or.kr
www.isnnm.org

Events of the Taiwan Powder Metallurgy Association (TPMA)
In 2020, the TPMA annual
general membership meeting was held on
September 3 rd at the Industrial Technology
Research Institute in Hsinchu. Several awards,
including the Outstanding Paper Award, Excellent
Staff Award, Innovation Award, and Association
Scholarships, were awarded at the annual
meeting. Two keynote speakers were invited topresent their significant talks. The first keynote
speech, entitled “The Effects of Global Supply
Chain Restructuring on the Key Industries
Strategy in Taiwan—Taking Metal Products as
an Example”, was presented by Dr. Ko-Hsiung
Lien, Director of the Research Division Ⅷ at
the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research. The
second keynote speech, entitled “Solar Applied
Materials Technology Corporation—Green Supply
Chain Localization”, was presented by Dr. ChienYung Ma, Chairman of the Solar Applied Materials
Technology Corporation.
The TPMA board members visited the Solar
Applied Materials Technology Corporation on
November 17 th, and a board meeting was held
in a conference room there. Furthermore, TPMA
and the Industrial Technology Research Instituteco-organized three seminars in 2020. The threeseminars were “Workshop on Intelligent Platforms
for Powder Metallurgy Processes”, “Seminar on
Advanced Aluminum Alloy Composite Powders
and Application Technology”, and “Workshop on
PM Digital Additive Manufacturing Technology
Platforms”.
th

In 2021, TPMA will hold the 40 anniversary andannual general membership meeting in October.
A cross-strait PM conference will also be held in
October.

Powder Metallurgy Short Course-20 (PMSC20) 26-29 September 2020
In Virtual Mode: Platform used: Google MeetA four-day short-term course on powder metallurgy “Powder
Metallurgy Short Course-20 (PMSC20)” took place from
26-29 September 2020 in the virtual mode and governed through Department ofMetallurgy and Materials Science, College of Engineering Pune Campus. The
program was organized by PMAI in collaboration with Department of Metallurgy& Materials Science College of Engineering Pune. Dr. S.P.Butee, Co-Convener
and HoD Metallurgical Engineering COEP welcomed the participants and
TPMA President Dr. Sea-Fue Wang presented the
Excellent Staff Award

TPMA Vice President Mr. Chun-Chung Shaw
presented the Innovation Award

TPMA board members visiting the Solar Applied
Materials Technology Corporation

TPMA board meeting at the Solar Applied
Materials Technology Corporation

Table 1: Topics of the invited talks covered by various speakers at PMSC 20.
Sr.
No.

Topic

Name of the Speaker

1

Overview of Powder Metallurgy and Particulate Materials Technology

N.L.Chandrachud, Consultant

2High Density, High Performance PM Materials Processing

N.L.Chandrachud, Consultant

3

Thermal Methods of Powder Production for PM

Dr. T . Mahata, BARC

4

Mechanical and Solution Methods of Powder Production for PM

Dr. K. Murli Gopal, Novoken Innovations

5

PM Porous Materials

Dr. K. Murli Gopal, Novoken Innovations

6

Manufacturing Techniques for Commercial Iron Powders

M. Nipanikar, Hoganas India

7

Powder Characterization

Prof.P.Ramakrishnan, Emeritus Professor, IITB

8Maintaining Quality in PM Manufacturing

Rajendra Sethiya, GKN

9Design and fabrication of Tooling for PM

Sanjay Rastogi, Consultant

10

Furnaces for sintering & heat treatment

N. Gopinath, Fluidtherm

11

Metal Injection Molding

Prof Parag Bhargava, IIT B

12Consolidation of Powders:Binders, Lubricants & Sintering Aids

Dr. Syam Babu, BARC

13

Sintering of Some Commercial Ceramics

Dr. Rama Mohan Tallapragada, BARC

14
Dr. Ko-Hsiung Lien presenting the first keynote
speech, “The Effects of Global Supply Chain
Restructuring on the Key Industries Strategy in
Taiwan—Taking Metal Products as an Example”

15
Attendees of the Workshop on Intelligent Platforms
for Powder Metallurgy Processes

TPMA President Dr. Sea-Fue Wang delivering the
opening speech at the 2020 TPMA annual general
membership meeting

APMA President Mr. Chiu-Lung Chu addressing
at the 2020 TPMA annual general membership
meeting

Attendees of the Seminar on Advanced AluminumAlloy Composite Powders and Application
Technology

Ve n u e o f t h e 2 0 2 0 T P M A a n n u a l g e n e r a lmembership meeting

Attendees of the Workshop on PM Digital Additive
Manufacturing Technology Platforms

Fabrication / Shaping Methods for Advanced Ceramics andComposites

Dr. Deep Prakash, BARC

PM parts Heat Treatment

Dr. N.B. Dhokey, CoEP

16

Thermal Consolidation of Powders– Sintering Fundamentals

Dr. N.B. Dhokey, CoEP

17

Powder metallurgy of Bulk Metallic glass Composites

Dr.Bhaskar Majumdar, DMRL

18

Bond Matrices in Diamond Cutting Tools

Dr. Vivek Singal, Sharp Diamond

19

Friction Materials

Dr. Malobika Karanjai, ARCI

20

Biomaterials

Dr. Malobika Karanjai, ARCI

21

Tungsten Alloys in Defence and Aerospace Industry

Mr. Bijoy Sarma, Consultant

22

Dr. Chien-Yung Ma presenting the second keynote
speech, “Solar Applied Materials Technology
Corporation—Green Supply Chain Localization”

briefed about workshop. He also introduced various activities and happeningsof the department to the people present in the inauguration. Mr Aniket Gore,
President, Powder Metallurgy Association of India gave introduction about
PMAI and the activities housed under the flagship. Dr. Vaishali Poddar gave
instructions for online mode of communication during PMSC 20 and later Dr.
S.P.Butee proposed vote of thanks. Invited talks covered various aspects ofpowder metallurgical technology. The multiple invited talks were delivered byeminent speakers and covered various powder metallurgy and its application
related topics as tabulated in Table 1.

Overview of PM Standards

Dr. V. S. Poddar, COEP

Each session comprised of dedicated discussions, challenges and opportunities
in powder metal lurgy technology development. Overall there were about 17
participants attended this course which were drawn from diverse industries viz.
Heavy Alloy Penetrator Project, Trichy, Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd., Federal
Mogul, Tenneco, Yogeshwar Engineering, Danfoss Power Solution India Pvt.
Ltd., Sintercom India Limited, Aloft Specialities, Sarda Metal Powders, PP Patel
and Company. The course feedback was collected from all the participants andthe overall rating for the course came out to be 4.1 out of 5. Few suggestions
were given by the participants to further improve the course effectivenessviz. case studies related to PM to be discussed in more details, elaborate
information on basic set up needs of PM related functioning, and information
about tolerancing practices in case of as sintered components having different
geometries. Also, based on the courses taught, online examinations in between
the talks were conducted and participants had responded very well to this.

Snap of the valedictory function which took place on 29 September 2020.
Rm. 404, Bldg. 52, No. 195, Sec. 4, Zhongxing Road,
Zhudong Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan
E-mail: sfwang@ntut.edu.tw
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TEL: +886-3-5827091 FAX: +886-3-5822336
www.pmaroc.com.tw

102, Anandi, 1st Floor, M.B. Raut Road, Shivaji
Park, Dadar, Mumbai - 400028, India
E-mail: president@pmai.in
director@pmai.in
TEL: +91-2224-441052
www.pmai.in