U.S. Metal Powders, Inc. (USMP) has announced the appointment of Bryan Wilkinson as business development manager of USMP and AMPAL, Inc. Wilkinson assumed his new position at the company’s headquarters in Palmerton, PA, on Monday, November 3, 2025.
Quickparts has strengthened its commitment to “Limitless Manufacturing” with completion of a significant $2.5 million expansion in new equipment and facility enhancements at its Seattle headquarters. The upgrades formally establish this site as an Aerospace & Defense Center of Excellence, strengthening the company’s longstanding expertise in high fidelity casting patterns and advanced stereolithography (SLA). Simultaneously, Quickparts is officially launching its Quick Mold solution – announced last month in EMEA - across North America, bringing production-quality molded parts to market in as little as five days.
Höganäs announces the launch of PowdrIQ, an international university challenge inviting undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students to propose innovative applications for metal powders.
Participants are challenged to identify new, untapped applications where metal powders are not currently used but could make a difference, focusing on three key areas: sustainability, performance & efficiency, and market needs.
The winners in the 2025 Powder Metallurgy (PM) Design Excellence Awards competition, sponsored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), demonstrate outstanding examples of PM’s diversity and ability to meet critical requirements. From electric vehicles to musical instruments to semiconductors, once again, parts fabricators have demonstrated PM’s versatility and unique ability to challenge competing technologies. These award-winning components use PM’s flexibility to push forward new concepts and process controls to demonstrate the inexhaustible range of PM’s capabilities. 12 Awards of Distinction were given to the following:
The Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), demonstrates outstanding examples of PM’s diversity and ability to meet critical requirements. From electric vehicles to musical instruments to semiconductors, once again, parts fabricators have demonstrated PM’s versatility and unique ability to challenge competing technologies. These award-winning components use PM’s flexibility to push forward new concepts and process controls to demonstrate the inexhaustible range of PM’s capabilities.
Höganäs is launching re-Astaloy 85 Mo as the first product in its newly introduced re-portfolio. This is an umbrella name designed to clearly communicate which products have been intentionally developed or improved with enhanced sustainability performance, helping customers make informed choices based on verified environmental benefits.
Höganäs is releasing its 2024 sustainability report, highlighting key progress across climate action, safety, responsible sourcing, and diversity and inclusion. One of the major announcements in the report is a strategic investment in biochar, following successful full-scale trials, to enable a significant shift in sponge iron production in Höganäs, Sweden.
Rapid + TCT 2025 (Detroit) features the latest in 3D printing technology from the industry’s leading product and service providers, a full schedule of speakers including the returning Executive Perspectives Keynote Series, and over 125 hours of educational content. The expansive show floor will showcase 400+ exhibiting companies’ latest advancements.
PowderMet2025 (Phoenix) is dedicated to metal powder and particulate materials-based processes including press and sinter, metal additive manufacturing, metal injection molding and more. The show provides an energetic forum to showcase PM, metal AM, and MIM equipment, powders, products, and services. MPM2025, co-located with PowderMet 2025, is a technical conference and exhibition dedicated to metal additive manufacturing.
The winners in the 2024 Powder Metallurgy (PM) Design Excellence Awards competition, sponsored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), demonstrate outstanding examples of PM’s diversity and ability to meet critical requirements. From electric vehicles to medical implants, once again, parts fabricators have demonstrated PM’s versatility and unique ability to challenge competing technologies. These award-winning components use PM’s flexibility to push forward new concepts and process controls to demonstrate the inexhaustible range of PM’s capabilities.
Thomas F. Murphy, FAPMI, Senior Scientist, Research and Development, Hoeganaes Corporation, has received the Kempton H. Roll Powder Metallurgy (PM) Lifetime Achievement Award by the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF). The award was presented during the combined PowderMet2024 (International Conference on Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials) and AMPM2024 (Additive Manufacturing with Powder Metallurgy) conferences, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the Opening General Session on Monday, June 17.
Schaeffler AG and GKN Powder Metallurgy announce their joint commitment to advance the development of the permanent magnet industry in Europe and North America through a memorandum of understanding. GKN Powder Metallurgy will supply Schaeffler locally with permanent magnets with the aim to ensure a stable, local supply whilst improving sustainability and transparency in the supply chain.
SBTi (Science Based Targets initiative) has approved Höganäs AB’s near and long-term science-based emissions reduction targets.
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