The Łukasiewicz Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals became the leader of the Polish-Canadian consortium of the project “Production of powder materials for the additive manufacturing of metals and high-melting alloys for applications in the aerospace industry”.

The aim of the project is to develop materials in the form of high-melting metal W-Re and Mo-Re powders intended for use in additive technologies. Researchers intend to use raw materials obtained from scrap / waste materials in the production of the developed powders. This is especially true for critical raw materials such as tungsten (W), molybdenum (Mo) and rhenium (Re).

The results will be used to introduce new products to the market in the form of spherical W-Re and Mo-Re powders, and will allow obtaining knowledge about these materials in processing them in a plasma torch and producing elements from them using LPBF (laser powder bed fusion) methods.

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