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• ASTM’s Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence launches consortium for materials data and standardisation

  May 19, 2022

  ASTM International’s Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE) has announced the launch of its Consortium for Materials Data and Standardisation (CMDS) initiative, with the aim of bringing key»

• Kennametal becomes GE Additive Beta Partner to advance Binder Jetting capabilities in tungsten carbide

  May 18, 2022

  GE Additive has announced that Kennametal Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, is the latest member of its Beta Partner Programme. As part of the GE Additive Programme, Kennametal will further advance its»

• Morf3D and 6K Additive partner to qualify metal powders for Additive Manufacturing

  May 18, 2022

  6K Additive, a division of 6K, headquartered in North Andover, Massachusetts, USA, and Morf3D, Inc, a Nikon subsidiary headquartered in El Segundo, California, USA, have announced they are collaborating»

• Uniformity Labs releases Ti64 Grade 23 titanium alloy powder

  May 17, 2022

  Uniformity Labs, Fremont, California, USA, has released its new titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V (Ti64) powder for Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB) Additive Manufacturing. Ti64 offers a high strength-to-weight »

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Powder Metallurgy has always been green. Now, we need to learn to talk about it

Being a green technology, PM should be reaping the rewards as the automotive industry seeks to reduce its environmental impact. Instead, the PM industry appears to be preparing for a decline, as the traditional PM parts used in the internal combustion engine fade out of use. Now, when it could most be thriving on its green credentials, press and sinter PM runs the risk of being overlooked as a solution for e-drive applications.

The main reason, believes Barton White, CEO, Kymera International, is a lack of promotion of PM to the C-suite, executive-level automotive manufacturers. Here, he reflects on the changes the auto industry has undergone in recent history and considers how PM can find a place in the new, electrified landscape.

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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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How to make metal powders. Part 2: Understanding water atomisation and water atomised powders

In the Winter 2021 issue of PM Review, we introduced the first instalment in our four-part series on metal powder atomisation, in which two masters of atomisation, Joe Strauss and John Dunkley, introduced the fundamental principles of atomising technology and atomised powders.

Now, in the second instalment in the series, they explore one of the most widely used metal powder production methods – water atomisation. This long-established technology is used to produce a vast range of metal powders for many industrial applications, including press and sinter PM and MIM, and is now making inroads into metal AM.

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