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Rodney Brennen, COO, Metco Industries, Inc., St. Marys, Pennsylvania, has been elected the 31^st president of the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), succeeding Dean Howard, PMT, North American Höganäs Co., a subsidiary of Höganäs AB, Hollsopple, Pennsylvania. His two-year term began at the conclusion of the Federation’s annual PM Management Summit and 77^th Annual MPIF Business Meeting, October 23–25, 2021, in Nashville, Tennessee.

America Makes, Youngstown, Ohio, announced a new Directed Project Call worth $1M in total funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Manufacturing and Industrial Base Technology Division to advance domestic ability to use additive manufacturing for the creation of components for aerospace and defense high Mach applications.

The Japan Powder Metallurgy Association (JPMA) has announced the 2021 JPMA PM parts award winners.

Development Prize

New Design

Parking Part of Transmission for PHEVs
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.

Students seeking Internships/Co-ops in the PM Industry, can now post ads on the APMI website under the “Careers” tab. Companies in the PM industry can post their available Internship/Co-op positions in the same area. There is no fee for either type of listing.

This is a new feature so check back frequently as new listings will appear as they become available.  Read More to check it out.

Listed from left to right:  Steve Reed, APMI West Penn Treasurer; Brent Matheson, PMT, APMI West Penn Secretary; Keith Fleming, Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems; Tyler Cuneo, APMI West Penn Vice Chairman; Andrew Wright, APMI West Penn Chairman.

After an 18-month hiatus the West Penn Chapter of APMI International held their monthly meeting attended by 80 industry professionals and sponsored By Gasbarre Products, Inc. 

The 2021 Tungsten, Refractory & Hardmaterials Conference Best Paper Award has been selected, and this year's winning paper is "An Investigation into the Factors Influencing the Microstructural Homogeneity of Sintered Cemented Carbide" by Thomas Jewett, Brian Payne, and Robert L. Stevens (ret), Global Tungsten & Powders Corporation. The paper was selected from among the highly qualified manuscripts that were presented at the Tungsten2021 conference in Orlando and critically evaluated for the prestigious award.

The paper is available for download on the MPIF website. It is also included in Advances in Tungsten, Refractory & Hardmaterials—2021. The authors will be officially recognized during PowderMet2022 in Portland, Oregon, June 12–15, 2022.

Texas A&M University researchers have adjusted the process for creating defect-free metal additive manufactured parts. The researchers identified, through a combination of machine learning and single-track 3D printing experiments utilizing laser bed powder fusion process, promising alloy chemistries and process parameters required to print parts with uniform properties at the microscale.

The Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF) is pleased to announce that a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant will be provided to select students from U.S. colleges and universities to attend the PowderMet2022 and AMPM2022 conferences in Portland, Oregon, June 12-15. NSF Grant Awards will directly cover the full registration fee and hotel accommodation in double occupancy.

The 2021 Metal AM Outstanding Technical Paper Award has been selected, and this year's winning paper is "Electrostatic Charging and its Impact on Powder Flowability" by Louis-Philippe Lefebvre, Roger Pelletier and Cindy Charbonneau, National Research Council Canada. The paper was selected from among the highly qualified manuscripts that were presented at the AMPM2021 conference in Orlando and critically evaluated for the prestigious award.

The paper is available for download on the MPIF website. It is also included in Advances in Additive Manufacturing with Powder Metallurgy—2021. The authors will be officially recognized during AMPM2022 in Portland, Oregon, June 12–15, 2022.

While additive manufacturing (AM) techniques have revolutionized metal parts design complexity, the traditional laser beams could lead to defects and poor mechanical performance.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is exploring alternative shapes to the Gaussian beams commonly employed in high-power laser printing processes such as laser powder bed fusion (LBPF). In a paper published by Science Advances, researchers experimented with exotic optical beam shapes known as Bessel beams—reminiscent of bullseye patterns—which possess a number of unique properties such as self-healing and non-diffraction. They discovered that the application of these types of beams reduced the likelihood of pore formation and “keyholing,” a porosity-inducing phenomenon in LPBF exacerbated by the use of Gaussian beams.  

New car registrations by fuel type in August 2021, compared to August 2020 and 2019 (Courtesy JATO)

According to data from 26 European markets, electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrids outsold diesel vehicles by 10,100 units in August, representing 21% of all cars sold in the month. Even with an increase in sales of EV’s and hybrids, new car registrations overall reported a decline of 18% to 713,714 units, marking the lowest recorded volume in August since 2014.