| 01 Mar 2010 |
With the rising copper price, Acelent has made inroads to the many copperMIM heatsinks and components. For passive heatsinks, copperMIM heatsinks offer pin & fin combination and profile variation to the designers. For liquid cooling, the copperMIM coldplates offers freedom of design and cost savings. Acelent is currently working on porous copperMIM coldplates to improve the thermal conductivity per weight ratio. |
| 08 Jan 2010 |
Acelent has continued to focus on its copperMIM process for the thermal, electrical, power electronics and oil exploration industries. Todate, Acelent has injected passive heatsinks, liquid cooled and 2-phase cooling coldplates in many profiles. Whatever the fin or pin profiles, they can be injected simply and with pin density exceeding 25 pins per square centimeter, the copperMIM coldplates have enhanced the performance of many new coldplate designs. Thermal conductivity of copperMIM coldplates is about 3 times higher than that of aluminum alloy coldplates. |
| 05 Oct 2009 |
Acelent has extended the application of its copperMIM process to the Oil & Gas exploration industry with its copper liner development. CopperMIM enables copper liner production of more than 95% purity. The resulting ductile copperMIM liner produces a longer and more stable jet. Jet speed of 6km/s to 8km/s can be achieved depending on designs of the copper liner. As the copper liner is injection molded, various geometrical features can be incorporated. Optimization of liner feature design to obtain a longer and stable jet can be simulated using commercial software such as DYNA3D. Users may increase the effectiveness of the liner jet through heavier materials such as tungsten alloy. |
| 11 Jul 2008 |
Acelent has successfully developed and launched its tungsten alloy composition for its medical customers. The various tungsten alloy composition that can be metal injection molded are tungsten-nickel, tungsten-copper, etc. These tungsten alloys are employed in high temperature application in the medical, ordnance and oil & gas industries.. |
| 05 May 2008 |
Acelent started development on a new MIM cellphone hinge with a MNC located in China. There were other MIM components in the next generation designs. The customer was keen to move on to stainless steel MIM hinge to give their end-users better quality and distinctive executive appeal. In addition, the customer needed the high volume and complex geometry capabilities to help them scale up to meet the increasing demand. |
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| 26 Mar 2008 |
Acelent ramped up production on CopperMIM parts. More customers were seeing the advantage of using copper and copper-tungsten for their more demanding needs in thermal management. The price per thermal conductance of copper proved to be very attractive. |
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| 15-17 Oct 2007 |
Acelent was awarded the Highly Commended EPMA 2007 Award of Excellence in the International category in the Euro PM2007 International Congress in Toulouse, France. This was for a copper coldplate made through its copperMIM (copper metal injection molding) process. The challenge was injecting the approximately 300 pins through a thin copper base. Thermal conductivity of more than 300 W/mK was achieved. |
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| 20 Aug 2007 |
Acelent has published the latest copy of its newsletter Outlook (Issue 3). Request for a copy by writing to us
via email. |
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| 17 Jul 2007 |
Acelent won a major contract from a medical device customer. The contract was for production of ceramic and tungsten components. This contract was an affirmation of Acelent’s quality and commitment to the medical device industry. |
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| 15 Apr 2007 |
Acelent started production run of copper coldplates used for overclocking CPUs in gaming computers. The complexity of the coldplate design was a challenge even for MIM process. There were almost 300 pins to be injection-molded. Amid rising copper price, the MIM process was able to maintain an edge in terms of cost and quality. Acelent had made inroads into the thermal management industry with several thermal projects in the pipeline. |
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| 02 Jan 2007 |
Acelent launched its newsletter Outlook to keep its customers updated on developments in MIM technologies, applications and business opportunities. Outlook will be published 3 times a year. |
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| 02 Oct 2006 |
Acelent is fully operational 2 Oct 2006 with 100 tons material capacity. It has equipped itself with state-of-the-art equipment to ensure Acelent stays ahead of its competition. |
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| 18 Aug 2006 |
Acelent moved into medical device industry with production toolings for stainless steel, tungsten and ceramic parts. |
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| 15 Aug 2006 |
Acelent passed the First Article Qualification Test for miniaturized parts used in HDD. |
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| 03 Jul 2006 |
Acelent successfully developed new and efficient MIM process. |
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| 02 May 2006 |
Acelent received the 1st production mold order for a copper heatsink from a US MNC. This was an endorsement of Acelent’s technical competence. |
