Manufacturing Today Issue - 236 May 2025 | Page 68

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time and cost as conventional processes. 6K’ s ingenious microwave plasma technology is also useful in the production of additive manufacturing materials, as Sam explains.“ We operate another business unit that applies the same technology for producing additive manufacturing materials, focusing on the chemistry of pure metals. This unit possesses intellectual property enabling the conversion of scrap materials, such as scrap titanium, nickel and refractory metals, into a pure premium powder state. The process involves milling the material to a specific volume, introducing it into the plasma in a solid state, controlling the temperature, and utilizing surface tension to form a ball of metal powder consisting of nickel, titanium, copper, tungsten, C-103 / niobium, Inconel, or superalloys, which are subsequently employed in the additive manufacturing processes. Due to its spherical shape, the resulting material flows smoothly

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