It was another successful year for the PM Parts Compacting/Tooling Seminar. The seminar, held about every other year, dates to 1989 and continues to educate a variety of people throughout the industry, mainly catering to powder metallurgy parts and product fabricators.

Headlines:

Dramatic Increase for Metal Powder Sales
Hoeganaes Converts to Landfill Methane Gas.
Domfer Begins Expansion Program
Pyron Sales Up
Glidden Metals to Build New Powder Plant 
Mannesmann Demag Relocates New York Office 
New Method for Removing Inclusions from Metal Powders 
Rapidly Solidified Metals Available as Powders 
Porous Materials, Inc., Develops Mercury Intrusion Porosimeters
M/P Services Expands Production Line 
Manufacturing Productivity Studied by Battelle's New Research Section 
APM Receives Vendor Award from Xerox 
Conaway Buys HIP Technology from Battelle
People In The News
 

The future may belong to electric cars, but for U.S. automakers, heavy PM-containing trucks will rule for years to come. Automakers in North America plan to build more big pickups and sport utility vehicles than electric vehicles well into the late 2020s, chasing sales trends that run counter to the Biden administration's goal of boosting EVs to half the market by 2030, according to internal production forecasts viewed by Reuters.

The metal AM sailboat rudder suspension. (Courtesy Fehrmann Alloys)

A boat equipped with a metal additive manufactured (AM) aluminum alloy rudder suspension helped Australia win a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics. The parts exhibited good strength, high ductility, and corrosion resistance, and the parts were required to have the same mechanical properties as their cast counterparts. The aluminum alloy selected can be used for metal AM, sand casting, pressure casting and mold casting, with the mechanical properties of the material said to remain very similar in all processes.

Moon  ©NASA

British engineers who are perfecting a technique for transforming moondust into oxygen have made a breakthrough that could shape the future of space exploration. Using specially designed pilot reactors, engineers have successfully extracted air from simulated moonrock, leaving behind kilos of metal powder that could one day be used to build lunar habitats. This is the first time the by-product has been produced in these quantities.