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• Micromeritics expands operations in Asia

  August 17, 2022

  Micromeritics Instrument Corporation, Norcross, Georgia, USA – a supplier of high-performance systems used to characterise particles, powders and porous materials – has established direct sales, service»

• Kymera sells calibration powders based on new MPPA standard

  August 17, 2022

  Kymera International, a speciality materials company headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, has received a master Carney flowmeter in line with a new standard approved by the Metal»

• Stellantis to invest $99M in engine production across three North American plants

  August 17, 2022

  Stellantis has announced plans to invest a total of $99 million in three North American plants for the production of a new four-cylinder turbocharged engine. In line with the company’s Dare Forward 2030 plan»

• PyroGenesis announces Q2 2022 results as platform for future growth

  August 15, 2022

  PyroGenesis Canada, Inc., Montreal, Québec, Canada, has announced its financial and operational results for the second quarter ending June 30, 2022. The company recorded revenue of $5,847»

Hot Isostatic Pressing as a Powder Metallurgy-based alternative to AM for large, near-net shape components

For decades, industries such as oil & gas have relied on Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) to produce large, corrosion resistant, near-net shape components from high-alloy materials.

Outside the PM industry, HIP is more widely recognised as a technology for the post-processing of AM parts than as a tried and tested powder metallurgical part manufacturing process in its own right. In this article, Jimmy Bovin, MTC Powder Solutions AB, Sweden, makes the case for HIP as the best, lesser-known alternative to Additive Manufacturing for large, near-net shape components.

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.

Backing the right horse? Safeguarding PM part usage in a new automotive industry

No matter our personal views on electrification, we can all agree that the automotive landscape, and with it, one of PM’s leading consumer markets, is changing. Currently, much of our industry’s focus is on how best to market PM’s strengths as an EV-enhancing technology to the traditional ‘Big 5’ automakers. But is this strategy enough?

In this article, EV commentator Alex Voigt, with input from PM Review’s Emily-Jo Hopson-VandenBos, compares Tesla’s approach to that of traditional automakers, and asks whether the PM industry should keep its focus on those companies that have traditionally led the auto industry, or whether it is new relationships with flexible, innovative startups that will safeguard the future of Powder Metallurgy as a supplier to the automotive industry.