Ann: Titomic Aligns with Osaka Titanium Technologies & Marubeni, page-7

Can any clever Hotcopperer answer this question - which has been troubling me for a while now: I remember Jeff Lang telling a roadshow conference a couple of months after listing that (loose quote here):"One of TKF’s advantages, though, is its ability to deal with irregular morphology powders, ones that don’t boast perfectly spherical particles, and cost closer to 50 USD per kilo. " It seems to me that TTT has been doing a lot of tie-ups with partners who produce highly specialised Ti powders (i.e.Osaka Titanium technologies & Marubeni just now and Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sino-Euro Materials Technologies in December 2018) - my question is this: Why are we spending so much time and effort tying -up with specialised Ti powder producers when one of our main attractions is that the TKF process is not meant to need them? Is it in fact a case that we do need more expensive powders to use TKF in the majority of the envisaged additive manufacturing applications that we are investigating? I haven't asked the company this question yet but I'm hoping that one of you can answer my nagging worry?