A new production process for titanium is scaling up. Anastasios “Taso” Arima, the founder and CEO of start-up IperionX announced the new process uses hydrogen assisted metallothermic reduction (HAMR) instead of carbon. The HAMR process is touted as sustainable with a lower processing cost.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, Ames Iowa, has announced a name change, to Ames National Laboratory. The change was made to more accurately reflect the institution’s past, present, and future role as a DOE National Laboratory, reinforcing the science and service it provides to meet its clean energy goals and objectives.

   
                                                                                                     AM shovels used during the groundbreaking ceremony.

After opening a large new additive manufacturing facility in Monroe, North Carolina last month, Collins Aerospace broke ground on a $14 million expansion of its additive manufacturing center in West Des Moines, Iowa.

The European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA) sponsored 2022 World Congress will take place in the Lyon Convention Centre, in the exceptional environment of the Cité Internationale designed by Renzo Piano in a private setting between the river Rhône and the Tête d’Or Park. Held in Europe once every six years, World PM2022 is an essential destination for the international PM community to meet its suppliers, producers and end-users, and to discover the latest innovations in PM technology.

HIP’22, the International Conference on Hot Isostatic Pressing, will be held September 11-14, in Columbus, Ohio. The event is one of the only meetings dedicated solely to hot isostatic pressing. All aspects of HIP are discussed, and speakers are the experts in the industry. HIP’22 is an excellent forum to meet colleagues and form relationships that will be beneficial to the individual as well as to their corporate profitability.