Next generation technology
USA. Cabot Corp has acquired the assets and technology of AP Materials Inc of St Louis, Missouri, an advanced materials company producing high purity powders for industrial applications using a novel flame process to create high surface area powders that are non-reactive and oxide free. AP Materials has used its proprietary manufacturing process to develop next generation tantalum powders and licensed its core technology from Washington University, St Louis, and has assigned its rights to Cabot.
   Eduardo Cordeiro, Cabot Supermetals VP and general manager, explained that flame synthesis technology provides an exciting new platform for manufacturing high surface area metal and metal alloy powders. The belief is that the technology will provide opportunities to bring new products to the marketplace and further enhance Cabot's position as the leading supplier of tantalum powders to the electronics industry.
   AP Materials has advanced a fledgling technology which it says is now at a stage where further commercialisation is best achievable through the resources of a major corporation, such as Cabot Corp. Cabot's major products are carbon black, fumed silica, inkjet colourants, capacitor materials and caesium formate drilling fluids.
23:19 27/02/2008

Global metal powder meeting
USA. The 2008 World Congress on Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials (PM2008 World Congress), which takes place on 8 - 12 June 2008 in Washington, DC, features up to 400 presentations covering the latest trends and technological breakthroughs in metal powders and powder metallurgy forming processes and applications.
   Powder metallurgists and industry leaders from more than 40 countries are expected to attend.  The event is sponsored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation and APMI International, with cooperation from the European Powder Metallurgy Association and the Japan Powder Metallurgy Association.
www.mpif.org
10:45 04/09/2007