Expansion at Yillik Precision Carbides reflects growth in demand for WC-MIM Products

POWDER INJECTION MOLDING INTERNATIONAL, JUNE 2010-  Yillik Precision Carbides announced earlier this year that it was moving into a larger 13,000 ft² new manufacturing facility in Ontario, California, USA. The company states that this move will allow for a more streamlined process workflow that is better able to support the growth in new products being developed by its 40 employees.

The company specializes in miniature carbide products with inside diameters as small as 0.010 (.25mm) and outside diameters of 0.040 (1 mm), with exacting tolerances for roundness and concentricity. The company reports that products of this type continue to fuel the recent growth into demanding applications for the oil field equipment, medical and sporting goods industries.

Yillik was acquired in 2007 by PSM Industries, The synergy of adding a tungsten carbide processor to our family of PM technologies has fully expanded our manufacturing capabilities, stated Craig Paullin, President, PSM Industries. The fact that Yillik presses and sinters their own carbide gives them exceptional control over the entire process.

An example of the synergy in the acquisition can be seen with the collaboration of Yillik with the PolyAlloys Injected Metals division of PSM Industries to introduce tungsten carbide net shapes with extreme shape complexity to the marketplace using the MIM process. These two divisions are working together to produce geometries and tolerances previously unimaginable by conventional molding techniques used in tungsten carbide production, stated Larry Totzke, Sales Manager at PSM Industries and PolyAlloys Injected Metals.