NEWS
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July
2009
Princeton, New
Jersey
Local Executive Accepts Grand Prize in
International Design Competition
Tom
Grimsley, manufacturing engineer, FloMet LLC, Deland, Florida,
accepted a Grand Prize in the 2009 Powder Metallurgy Design Excellence Awards
Competition. The award was given for a
316L stainless steel compressed-air nozzle. Fabricated by the metal injection molding
process, the hollow nozzle consists of top and bottom halves that are molded
separately and then joined together into one piece during debinding and
sintering. The nozzle won the Grand Prize in the Hand Tools/Recreation
category.
He accepted the award for his company
at PowderMet2009 in Las Vegas,
Nevada.
