Technologies for titanium powder reviewed at Titanium Europe 2016

摘要

New sources and technology for producing titanium and titanium alloy powders suitable for Metal Injection Moulding and Additive Manufacturing (AM) were revealed in presentations given at the Titanium Europe 2016 conference held in Paris, April 18-20. Neill McDonald of MetaFensch, Institut de Metallurgie du Val de Fensch, a publicly funded R&D centre in Lorraine, reported in his presentation that a pilot and semi-industrial scale plant has been established at his centre to produce fine titanium powder using an Electrode Induction Gas Atomisation (EIGA) furnace capable of using up to 100 mm diameter electrodes. He stated that the pilot scale facility can provide suitable quantities of powder to facilitate tests and to produce titanium powder in small batch series.