LPW TECHNOLOGY APPLIES CLEANROOM TECHNIQUES TO AM METAL POWDER MANUFACTURE

摘要

LPW Technology is producing new ranges of powders manufactured exclusively for metal additive manufacturing (AM) in cleanroom conditions at its "factory of the future" near Liverpool, UK. LPW's new £20 million facility, will house atomisers capable of making small to medium volumes of very clean powders, primarily custom titanium, nickel, cobalt, aluminium and steel alloys. The powder manufacturing facility has been designed to control contamination at every step of the process, with segregation of cells for specific material production. It will be operated under cleanroom conditions with contamination controlled to a degree never before seen in the manufacture of AM metal powders.