MPIF Design Awards showcase Metal Additive Manufacturing industry

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June 18, 2024

The winners of the 2024 Powder Metallurgy Design Excellence Awards competition, sponsored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), have just been announced at PowderMet2024. Ten Grand Prizes and seventeen Awards of Distinction were presented in this year’s competition. Entries were divided into three categories: Conventional Press and Sinter PM; Metal Injection Molding and Metal Additive Manufacturing.

The winners once again demonstrate outstanding examples of the PM industry’s diversity and ability to meet critical requirements. From electric vehicles to medical implants, parts fabricators have demonstrated PM’s versatility and unique ability to challenge competing technologies.

The following are prizes presented in the Metal Additive Manufacturing:

GRAND PRIZE AWARDS

Military/Firearms

A Grand Prize in the Military/Firearms Category for Metal AM components has been awarded to Amaero and their customer Wedgetail Industries for a firearms suppressor. The parts are made using laser powder-bed-fusion (PBF-LB) from either Ti-6Al-4V or Inconel 718. Firearms suppressors are typically manufactured as an assembly of precision machined components, joined with one or more threaded joints. Laser powder-bed-fusion provides the opportunity to manufacture very complex suppressor designs that contain no mechanical joints, and permits design details that are not achievable through traditional manufacturing processes.