Overcoming Challenges in Custom Powder Manufacturing—From Low-Melting and Reactive Materials to Refractories

One of the biggest challengesChallenges regarding developing new materialsMaterials for additive manufacturingAdditive manufacturing (AM) technologiesTechnology is insufficient and difficult access to a wide range of powder-form alloys. Gas, plasma, centrifugal, or water atomizationAtomization technologiesTechnology are mainly used to manufacture metallic powdersMetallic powders. Despite the significant benefits of these processesProcess, such as a high production yield, they come with certain drawbacks. These include a high investment cost, limited compatibility with a few materialsMaterials, a wide particle size distribution (PSD), and the requirement for a minimal amount of materialMaterials input for atomizationAtomization. The presented ultrasonic atomizationUltrasonic atomization technologyTechnology overcomes these challengesChallenges and allows for the in-house production of metallic powdersMetallic powders with tailored chemical compositions.