Over the last few years PSI has invested heavily in ’cold crucible‘ technology, meaning the ability to melt and atomise reactive metals such as titanium. Cold crucible or Induction Skull Melting (ISM) – the preparation of the melt in water cooled copper crucibles – is technically complex but feasible, and several atomisers based on this technology are now in operation. PSI believes that the only viable method of producing quality titanium powder at a price to enable its use outside of aerospace and into the automotive and medical sectors is by the use of low-cost titanium feedstocks and cold crucible techniques to prepare and refine melts in preparation for atomisation. In the past five years, Additive Manufacturing has grown at a rapid rate in the field of titanium and it has become apparent that CP and ’6/4‘ grades of titanium will need modification to alloy compositions to meet the special solidification characteristics encountered in AM processes. To this end PSI have developed cold crucible equipment to enable the production of novel titanium alloys by the continuous casting and extraction of circular billets. This meets the demand for meltstock of novel compositions that the primary titanium manufacturers are not currently ready to address.
Sincerely Plantautomation Technology
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Client Success Team (CRM),
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