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Date: Thursday, February 5, 2026
Time: Social Hour: 5:30-6:30 p.m., Dinner: 6:30 p.m.
Price: Member: $40.00 - Non-Member: $50.00, Student/Retiree: $30.00
Place: The Tannery at Dubois Country Club — 10 Lakeside Avenue, DuBois, PA 15801
Meeting Sponsor: Weiss Industrial Instruments
Speaker: Tony Busch
Topic: SCR’s Controlling Silicon Carbide Elements Without Transformers
BONUS: Any APMI member that attends 5 of the 7 West Penn technical sessions during the 2025–2026 season will be entered to win a complimentary full conference registration to attend WorldPM2026 / AMPM2026 / Tungsten2026, June 25–29 in Montreal, Canada!
Volume 2, No. 1, Jan/Feb 1973
APMI has a rich history that encompasses over sixty years advancing powder metallurgy. Explore the PM Flashback articles for insights into the industry's developments from 10, 20, and 40 years ago.
Volume 33, No. 4, 1997
The International Journal of Powder Metallurgy covers various materials and processes. Back in the day, the Consultant’s Corner was a popular feature. Revisit them to learn more about materials and processes.
Consultant's Corner
The International Journal of Powder Metallurgy has a rich history that encompasses over sixty years of publishing a wide range of materials and processes including classical "press-and-sinter" powder metallurgy, metal injection molding, metal additive manufacturing, and advanced particulate materials. Our Consultant’s Corners, with industry experts answering reader’s questions, were a popular feature. Revisit them as we share them here in a new feature.
The 2025 Exc
ellence in Metallography Award has been selected, and this year's winning paper is "The Effect of Heat Treatment on the Microstructure of Additively Manufactured Abrasion Resistant Ni-Hard Steel Parts”, by Thomas F. Murphy, FAPMI, Christopher T. Schade, FAPMI, & Kerri M. Horvay, Hoeganaes Corporation. The paper was selected from among the highly qualified manuscripts that were presented at the PowderMet2025 / AMPM2025 conference in Phoenix and critically evaluated for the prestigious award. The paper is available for download on the APMI website. It is also included in Advances in Additive Manufacturing with Powder Metallurgy—2025 and published in the fall issue of the International Journal of Powder Metallurgy. The authors will be officially recognized during WorldPM2026 in Montreal, Canada, June 25–29, 2026.
The Japan Powder Metallurgy Association (JPMA), Tokyo, Japan, announced its 2025 New Design, Process Development, Labor Saving Production, New Powders, and Effort awards.
Recent advances in additive manufacturing of biometals, including iron, magnesium, zinc, and their alloys, at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, New York, have transformed the development of patient-specific implants and bone plates. These materials boast superior mechanical strength and biocompatibility while offering the unique advantage of gradual degradation, eliminating the need for removal surgeries, which are ideal for temporary biomedical applications.
Researchers at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, have developed the first known metallic gel, a groundbreaking material made entirely of metal powders that can withstand extreme temperatures. Unlike typical gels used in everyday products, this innovative gel is created by mixing two metal powders. When heated, one metal melts, forming a liquid that is trapped within a solid scaffold of the other metal, creating a gel-like structure.
Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium (RTIT) will permanently close the operations of the metal powder plant at the Critical Minerals and Metallurgical Complex in Sorel-Tracy, Canada, by the end of 2025.
Students at UNC-Charlotte receive lectures on metal powder technologies.
The MPIF Industry Development Board (IDB) continues its new University Outreach Program to promote metal powder technologies to future engineers. Recently, Scott Davis, Hoeganaes Corporation, and Stefan Joens, Elnik Systems, LLC, took over three separate classes, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Systems, and Design of Machine Elements class at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. The feedback from the students and professors was very positive, remarking that they appreciated the industry providing a firsthand look at what the metal powder industry has to offer. Next up are the University of Texas at El Paso and Purdue University-Indianapolis.