Metal Powders
Metal Powders
We will work closely with your company to develop and produce powders that meet your specific requirements. We will add value to your business.
Key features
- Spherical gas-atomised powders
- A wide range of particle size distributions and chemical compositions
- Outstanding powder cleanliness and low oxygen levels
- Chemical homogeneity
- Processed under a controlled environment
- R&D range to batch production
- Ability to optimise chemistry of powders to match your own process requirements
- More than 25 years of experience in gas atomisation
SEM of Inconel 718 powder from MPP
Powder Particle Size
A wide range of powder compositions are available to meet your specific requirements. Our process is controllable in that we can target a median particle size to optimise the yield of powder for your chosen application.
Powders produced by gas atomisation have a range of particle sizes that typically demonstrate a log normal distribution as shown below. These curves are characterised by their mean size or d50, (the value at which half the volume is above and half below) and the standard deviation (SD) which defines the spread or tightness of the distribution.
Lower values of SD produce higher specific yields around the mean value as can be seen below.
Figure 1:- typical size distribution
Powder Compositions
Our advanced processing technology allows us to produce high quality powders. Over the last 25 years we have developed a library (in excess of 1500 different compositions) of process parameters on our R&D equipment which to a large degree is transferable to scale up. The list below is not exhaustive but gives an overview of the alloy types we produce.
- Pure metals
- Binary alloys
- Nickel based alloys including superalloys
- Cobalt based alloys
- Copper based alloys
- MCrAlY alloys
- Customised steel alloys
- Novel alloys
MPP gas atomised powders are used in a wide variety of applications in a number of different business sectors. The list below contains an overview of some of these:
Applications
- Metal Injection Molding (MIM)
- Hot isostatic Pressing (HIP)
- Rapid manufacturing/prototyping
- Advanced coatings
- Cladding
- Cold spraying
- Thermal spraying
- Additive Manufacturing
- Direct Melt laser Sintering (DMLS), SLM, SLS
- Electron Beam Melting (EBM)
Sectors
- Energy: oil & gas, powder generation, nuclear, storage (hydrogen & battery)
- Aerospace
- Marine
- Medical
- Automotive
- Tooling & Automation
