Metalysis, England, announces that the United Kingdom’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), part of the Ministry of Defence, has become a customer for its titanium powder through the Materials for Strategic Advantage research program.
The order for titanium powder is the first that Metalysis has announced from its industrial plant, known as Gen4, housed within its Materials Manufacturing Centre in Wath upon Dearne, South Yorkshire. Gen4 recently commenced commercial production, the first facility of its kind in the world.
Metalysis has spent more than a decade developing its technology from a Cambridge University breakthrough, to the point that now it is providing industrial scale production for international aerospace, automotive, additive manufacturing, and advanced manufacturing applications.
In Q4 2018, the Company successfully produced both of its intended Gen4 launch products: Titanium family alloys and an aluminum-scandium master alloy. Achieving this within the plant’s first quarter of commercial operation has demonstrated the flexibility of the technology for producing and switching between multiple periodic table elements to generate advanced alloys on a Just-in-Time basis.
Metalysis and Dstl are also partners on the FASTforge project. Led by the University of Sheffield, FASTforge offers a new, cost-effective route to producing aerospace-grade titanium alloys.
According to Metalysis CEO Dr. Dion Vaughan, “Commencing production from Gen4 marked a positive outcome following years of technological development. Dstl is a global leader in recognizing and supporting scientific breakthroughs, and an ideal customer for Metalysis.
