The powder metallurgy (PM) industry was the brightest light on the famous Las Vegas Strip during PowderMet2023 and AMPM2023 at Caesars Palace. Seven hundred delegates from 25 countries took part in technical presentations, special interest programs, and the largest PM exhibit in the Americas. The sold-out trade exhibition featured companies showcasing top products, goods, and services. The annual poster display was robust thanks to 61 students that received conference grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Center for Powder Metallurgy Technology (CPMT) and MPIF.

The winners in the 2023 Powder Metallurgy (PM) Design Excellence Awards competition, sponsored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), demonstrate outstanding examples of PM’s diversity and ability to meet critical requirements. From electric vehicles to medical implants, once again, parts fabricators have demonstrated PM’s versatility and unique ability to challenge competing technologies. These award-winning components use PM’s flexibility to push forward new concepts and process controls to demonstrate the inexhaustible range of PM’s capabilities.

Headlines:

1980s Herald Exciting P/M Future
Alcoa Opens Aluminum Powder Plant
Pitney Bowes Announces New High Strength P/M Alloy
Southern Sintered Metals Sold
CMP Metal Powders Inc. Formed
Brockway Closes Tennessee Plant
Glidden Offers New Powders
Profel Introduces P/M Presses
P/M '80 Medallion Made From Titanium Powder
MPIF Plans Management Conference
New MPIF 
Membership List
Competition Winners Judged
Powder Companies Host Spring Clinic Conference
Call for Papers -P/M Session at 1981 SAE Meeting
People in the News
P/M Patents
 

MPIF President Rodney Brennen, President of Metco Industries, Inc. will present the State of the North American PM Industry during the Opening General Session at PowderMet2023 / AMPM2023 on June 19 in Las Vegas.

Zhigang “Zak” Fang, FAPMI, materials sciences and metallurgical engineering professor, University of Utah, is the recipient of the prestigious Humboldt Research Award. Fang has developed a breakthrough technology that can produce high-quality, low-carbon emitting titanium powder at a significantly reduced cost. Known as the Hydrogen Assisted Metallothermic Reduction (HAMR) process, the technology developed by Fang is based on the discovery of new science about the effects of hydrogen on the stability of titanium solid solutions with high oxygen content (up to 14wt%.)