LPW Technology UK and Metalysis have formed a collaboration targeted at the Additive Manufacturing (AM) market. This partnership will develop an alternative supply chain for clean, spherical Tantalum and Tungsten powders for quality critical applications. It will combine Metalysis’s metal production technology with LPW’s spherodisation and post-processing capability. LPW will be responsible for selling the optimised powder to the AM market.
LPW Managing Director Dr Phil Carroll remarked: “Metalysis offers a greener and more cost-effective process, add our specialist industry knowledge and we can then supply a range of high quality, specially developed powders for the additive manufacturing industry”
Metalysis Chief Executive Dion Vaughan said: “The strategic collaboration between LPW and Metalysis will seek to develop and build the additive manufacturing market for tantalum and its alloys by pooling resources. We believe that LPW’s market expertise will complement Metalysis’s experience in metal powder production to further the development of AM”