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• Höganäs and Piab partner to increase sustainability of Additive Manufacturing

  January 27, 2022

  Sweden’s Höganäs AB and Piab AB have formed a partnership to leverage their respective areas of expertise with the goal of advancing automation in Additive Manufacturing, aiming to increase»

• Sandvik reports 31% increase in profits during 2021

  January 26, 2022

  Sandvik AB, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, has released its full-year financial results for 2021. Revenues increased organically by 12% to SEK 99,105 million (Q1-Q4 2020: 86, 404)»

• EPMA’s 2022 Functional Materials virtual seminar to take place in February

  January 26, 2022

  The European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA)’s 2022 Functional Materials seminar is set to take place in a virtual capacity on the mornings of February 22 and 23. The seminar will be devoted»

• MPIF launches PowderMet and AMPM retrospective webinar

  January 25, 2022

  The Metal Powders Industries Foundation (MPIF) has announced a new webinar series featuring key presentations from the PowderMet2021 and AMPM2021 conferences. Beginning January 27»

• Registration opens for EPMA’s ‘HIP in Critical Industries’ seminar

  January 25, 2022

  Registration is now open for the European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA)’s Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) seminar. Originally scheduled to take place in person in Dresden, Germany»

• Höganäs joins the Science Based Targets initiative

  January 25, 2022

  Sweden’s Höganäs AB has committed to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), which is intended to help create transparency and accountability in the company’s target to reduce greenhouse gas»

• Pensana and Equinor to develop magnet recycling method using hydrogen

  January 25, 2022

  Rare earth metals company Pensana Plc, headquartered in London, UK, has signed a cooperation agreement with energy provider Equinor New Energy Limited for recycling end-of-life magnets»

• Mimete enters metal powder distribution agreement with ICD Applied Technologies

  January 24, 2022

  Mimete SrL, Osnago, Italy, has entered a distribution agreement with ICD Applied Technologies Ltd, Sheffield, UK, who will become Mimete’s metal powder distribution partner in the UK and Ireland»

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Tesla teardown: Identifying potential uses for PM in electric vehicle transmissions

Whilst the future looks electric, with ever more electrically-powered vehicles entering the market, there are still lucrative opportunities for the Powder Metallurgy industry.

Höganäs AB’s Dr Anders Flodin, a long-time advocate of PM transmission gears for conventionally powered cars, and Babak Kianian, PhD candidate at Lund University, believe that one such opportunity is for PM gears in EV transmissions. To understand more, a Tesla Model S was the subject of a teardown and its transmission components analysed to understand if PM alternatives are suitable for such an application, and what advantages they might bring.

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Can European research still claim to be ‘world class’? Prof José M Torralba on the changed PM research base

In the history of the Powder Metallurgy industry, Europe has been a research leader, with major European universities and research institutes paving the way to the identification of new materials, processing techniques, and applications for the technology. But is that still the case in 2021?

In this article, Dr David Whittaker speaks to Prof José M Torralba, a leading expert in the European PM research landscape, and hears his views on the current state of global PM research, the factors limiting development in the European PM industry, and directions for future research and development.

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How to make metal powders. Part 1: An introduction to atomisation, process fundamentals and powder characteristics

The rise of metal Additive Manufacturing has resulted in renewed interest in metal powder production. A market once dominated by a small number of specialist powder producers has now seen the arrival of a diverse range of competitors, all hoping to capitalise on the promised opportunities of metal powder-based part production. As many are discovering, however, making powders with the required characteristics, to the necessary standards, and profitably, is far from easy.

Here, in the first instalment of a four-part series, two masters of metal powder atomisation, Joe Strauss and John Dunkley, introduce the process.

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