The Japan Powder Metallurgy Association (JPMA) has announced the 2021 JPMA PM parts award winners.

Development Prize

New Design

Parking Part of Transmission for PHEVs
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.

Students seeking Internships/Co-ops in the PM Industry, can now post ads on the APMI website under the “Careers” tab. Companies in the PM industry can post their available Internship/Co-op positions in the same area. There is no fee for either type of listing.

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Listed from left to right:  Steve Reed, APMI West Penn Treasurer; Brent Matheson, PMT, APMI West Penn Secretary; Keith Fleming, Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems; Tyler Cuneo, APMI West Penn Vice Chairman; Andrew Wright, APMI West Penn Chairman.

After an 18-month hiatus the West Penn Chapter of APMI International held their monthly meeting attended by 80 industry professionals and sponsored By Gasbarre Products, Inc. 

The 2021 Tungsten, Refractory & Hardmaterials Conference Best Paper Award has been selected, and this year's winning paper is "An Investigation into the Factors Influencing the Microstructural Homogeneity of Sintered Cemented Carbide" by Thomas Jewett, Brian Payne, and Robert L. Stevens (ret), Global Tungsten & Powders Corporation. The paper was selected from among the highly qualified manuscripts that were presented at the Tungsten2021 conference in Orlando and critically evaluated for the prestigious award.

The paper is available for download on the MPIF website. It is also included in Advances in Tungsten, Refractory & Hardmaterials—2021. The authors will be officially recognized during PowderMet2022 in Portland, Oregon, June 12–15, 2022.

Texas A&M University researchers have adjusted the process for creating defect-free metal additive manufactured parts. The researchers identified, through a combination of machine learning and single-track 3D printing experiments utilizing laser bed powder fusion process, promising alloy chemistries and process parameters required to print parts with uniform properties at the microscale.